The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-13
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EULOGIzED IN COURT
Motion That Mr.. McGee's
Death Be Placed on the
Minutes in General
Sessions.

A feeling of gloom pervaded the Court
of General Sessions this morning, and
lawyers talked in hushed tones of the
sad news of the death of Counsellor Flayel
McGee.
The matter was formally and officially
brought to the attention of Judge Blaii
by Counsellor Alexander Simpson, who
made a motion to the effect that the
court officially recognize the death of the
eminent member of the Hudson County
and New Jersey State bar, the late Flave
McGee, by an entry in the minutes of the
court Mr.. Simpson said
81 am moved by a sense of personal loss
and a knowledge Of the loss to the bar OF
this State in the passing on of Flavel Nc
Gee to closer walk with God that moves
me to utterance of a few words in his
memory.
There is an influence founded upon
love of ones fellow men that is mightier
than all other influences. and that in
f1uence Mr.. McGee had in strong meas
ure upon the members of this bar and
particularly upon the younger members OF
the bar, and this influence he exerted in
the quiet ways of sincerity and all un-
mindful of the praise of men.
There is so much cant among men
nowadays, and the bar is not free from it,
men who are so busy publicly proclaimins
their morality and directing the attention
of men to the lack of morality in their
fellows that it is refreshing to have known
such a man as Flayel MCGEE, who was 50
much above all cant and phariseeism,
land who showed us younger men. that
goodness was the fruit of wisdom and
evil was only folly after all.
'I remember that he did once sow
some seeds of goodness in me when was
beginning to practice law. I had publicly
made an i'll tempered attack upon an
older member of the bar and the newsps-
pers had spread it abroad. Mr.. MCGEE
net me, and although he was eminent
and I was obscure, although he was a
fine lawyer and I an Indifferent one, he
took my arm and walked up the street
with me and showed me how unwise
was and how thoughtless, and how the
better part of the profession was in curb
ing all malice and uncharitableness and
in realizing that there was more in law
than in appearing smart, that there was
a higher path than mere personal vanity,
and that anger rested but in the bosom of
fools.
Il shall always remember that advice,
and although it has not always perhaps
held my steps, yet it was an influence Of
goodness and wisdom in my life that will
never be quite wiped out, and as | sur
vey the selfishness of lie and the eternal
thought recurring to the ever present L,
which is perhaps. as manifest in my pro-
fession as anywhere else, am glad to
have known such a man.
1T matters little that he was a great
lawyer, and men hereafter will care lit
tie about that for The world moves very
quickly by mere intellectualism- but it
matters very much that he was a great
man in his manliness that he was self
less and that in quiet and undiscovered
ways he went about doing good.
Better is the bar of this State, better
the moral tone of this community for the
life of such a man who increased in at
tractiveness the nearer you approached
mis- personality.
"A heart free from self, free from vain
glory, free from uncharitableness and full
of real religion he has left us richer in
life for having known him.
HE has proved that it was very prac-
tical saying of the Master of us all,
shall see God.'
Assemblyman Leon Albeit of Hoboken,
seconded the motion and Judge Blair re-
sponded as follows:-
1.-THE suggestion" he said, s.is eminent
ly appropriate. While Mr.. MCGEE did not
appear very often in this court, he did
frequently appear in the adjourning room.
The deceased attained high degree OF
deserved distinction and an entry of his
death may be made and entered upon the
minutes of this court.
81 knew Mr.. MCGEE for over forty
years, we were boys together and grew
up with one another. | knew him well
personally and in his home life, as pro-
fessionally. No one could know Mr. Nc
Gee and not appreciate him to a high
degree Not only has the bar lost one
of its most honored members. but
society has been deprived of the associa-
ton of a model of culture, a man of social
connections, and of highly moral ten
denotes. The death of Mr.. MCGEE is in
deed loss OF us all.