"A HISTORY OF THE DAVIESS-McLEAN BAPTIST ASSOCIATION IN KENTUCKY, 
1844-1943" by Wendell H. Rone.  Probably published in 1944 by 
Messenger Job Printing Co., Inc., Owensboro, Kentucky, pp. 320-322.  
Used by permission.  [Daviess]

PHILIP THOMAS HALE, D.D., LL.D.:  The subject of this sketch was a 
younger brother of Dr. Fred D. Hale.  He, too, was born in New Market, 
Alabama, and was the son of Dr. Philip P. and Caroline Gullege Hale.  
His date of birth was August 18, 1857.  The Civil War swept away his 
father's property, and he worked his way through college and the 
Southern Seminary in Louisville, even though a rich man offered to 
put him through the Seminary, and to send him to Germany for further 
study.  He not only paid his own way but also assisted others.
	Dr. Hale was led to Christ by Elder R. W. Officer.  Before he 
reached his twenty-first year he made known his conviction that he 
should consecrate his life to the Gospel ministry.  To that end he 
diligently worked as a student in Howard College, Alabama, where he 
graduated with honors in 1879.  He next took the full course in the 
Seminary, and also a post-graduate course of one year.  He later 
received the degree of D.D. from Howard College, and the LL.D. from 
Union University.
	Dr. Hale was ordained at Starksville, Miss., in 1879.  The 
council consisted of Elders T. G. Sellers, John T. Christian, and E. 
Redus.  We are inclined to believe that he and his brother, Fred D., 
were ordained at the same time.  During his seminary course he was 
pastor for three years at New Liberty, Kentucky.  After his graduation 
he served the church at Vanville, Kentucky, from 1883 to 1888.  We 
next find him as pastor of the Southside Church, Birmingham, Alabama, 
from 1888 to 1898, where he enjoyed a remarkably successful ministry.  
For three years thereafter he was pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church 
in Roanoke, Va., and for another three years, 1901 to 1904, he served 
the Third Baptist Church in Owensboro, Kentucky.
	It was while he was pastor in Birmingham that he showed his deep 
interest in Christian education and a peculiar fitness for service in 
that field, particularly in the field of finance.  As President of the 
Board of Trustees of Howard College he led in a financial campaign 
which in a crucial hour saved that institution to the Baptists.  The 
Trustees of Union University, Jackson, Tenn., recognizing his ability 
and interest and fitness for educational work, elected him as President 
of that institution in 1904, and during a brief administration he was 
again able to save another school to the denomination by raising more 
than $100,000.00 for its support.  In 1906 he came to Kentucky to do a 
similar work as Corresponding Secretary of the Baptist Educational 
Society of Kentucky.  In 1909 he became lecturer on Evangelism and 
financial secretary of the Southern Baptist Seminary in which capacity 
he served faithfully and efficiently until his lamentable death, 
December 23, 1996.  His untimely death came when a fast train of the 
Southern Lines wrecked at Rockmart, Georgia, killing twenty persons 
including himself.  He had previously been given one month's leave of 
absence from his duties in the Seminary to help raise $250,000.00 for 
the Woman's College at Greenville, Miss., and was then on his way home 
to spend the Christmas holidays with his family.
	Dr. Hale was the founder, and for ten years editor of "The 
Birmingham Baptist."  He traveled extensively through Europe and 
Palestine, Egypt and other parts of the near East, and was the author 
of a book entitled "Letters On Foreign Travel."  He served as 
vice-president of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern Baptist 
Convention for some time and also served on the State Mission Board 
of Albama [sic].  He was the founder and first President of the 
Southern Baptist Educational Society.  For three times he served as 
fraternal delegate to the Northern Baptist Convention from the 
Southern Convention.  His manifest interest in all the denominational 
work was widely known and recognized.  His assistance to the 
Louisville Seminary in strengthening the Endowment Fund and the 
Students' Fund Endowment greatly assisted that institution in its 
work of furnishing the denomination with a trained ministry.
	The churches which he pastored all flourished and his record as 
pastor-evangelist is without parallel.  As an educator and financial 
secretary he likewise excelled.  Although his tasks took him from his 
family and loved ones, no man did a more necessary work than he.
	In 1885 he married Miss Lena Lyde Bollinger of Mayfield, Ky.  To 
this union was born seven sons.  The faithful companion proved an 
unfailing comfort and inspiration to him during his outstanding 
ministry.  It was she who was his help in all his work in nobly 
serving the denomination in his day.

Hale Gullege Officer Sellers Christian Redus Bollinger
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