The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-09

/ gratitude to THIS man WnOm we nOnoF
! for the formative and creative work
that he did. for the gift to his adopted
state and to the cause of education III
! those first years Of his citizenship
among US of the best Of his youth and
/ his vigor and his conservation. VINO
! shall say that he has not Served his
own congregation He ever felt JUST
pride in this particular service though
/ / think perhaps he was too modest to
| claim, or perhaps fully appreciate all
/ that 1t has meant to others, and IN all
/ the years he has never failed at any
| fitting opportunity to manifest his abid-
ing interest in the Normal school and
his substantial friendship in expression
and in act.
You, many to whom he has been
neighbor and friend and public servant 1siHl
/ for a quarter of century, need not that
/ I speak to you of his life in this COM
| munity It has been a fair and open
book No blot or stain has been cast
upon It, He has stood in his integrity
His life has run true.
mo dreamer thou but real ali,
Strong manhood crowning vigorous
Life made by duty epical.
And rhythmic with the truth
He has served you as public
! officer with a record for courage and
| consistency, doing his duty as he sa "
It with answering deVouon ana
/ without
sequences. ne has given you out OF
| the ripeness of his experience his
! valuable and CONSCIENTIOUS service as
a member for years, and president OF
your board of education GU know
I better than | his peculiar htneSS for
such a place and the care, the WIS
dom and the kindly consideration for
every interest with which ne applied
himself TO his task. He has been
tested and has not been found wanting
commonw ealth has honored him, his
fellow citizens have trusted him, and
he has faithfully discharged the trusts.
ct would be a work of supereroga-
ton for me, in the presence of his
brethren at the law. who have given
him their highest tribute of personal
honor both as q man and a prac-
titioner, to speak of his eminent at
tainments or to seek to analyze ms
acteristics in the practice OF the
profession for which he has devoted
the best years of his maturer life
spoke of him q little While ago as g.
big Drained mani do not Know put
Infancy, that he was not a lawyer who
gave himself exclusively to minute de-
tall but that his mind tended rather
to grapple with the larger and the
broader problems and that in un-
ravelling the intricacies of case with
the zest of one accustomed to intel
Iectual gymnastics, he sought rather
for the enunciation of the basic prin-
ciples OF the law. do know that he
was a lawyer of high ideals who
scorned chicanery and pettfness, who
loved honesty and sought for truth.
He was too strong a man not to make
antagorisrns. too sincere man to seek
to avoid them by even the suggestion
of concealment or duplicity; too fear
less a man to be always careful when
he felt that he had convictions that
ought to be expressed. Yet his was
not the antagonism of bitterness. He
r \ 4 F.,
the tenderness of a woman. 1 believe
that of him the poets words were
true.
And If his words We're harsh at times
He spared his fellow-men.-his blows
Fell only on their crimes.
mo man could ever once come I'M
der the genial spell of his comrada-
ship without knowing that he was
good friend. Hearty is a word that
IS always associated in my thoughts of
him.
respond when an appeal to his sympa-
thies was made, kindly considerate of
the needs of the others, he had pr1c-
teal creed Of doing good that FOUND
expression on many an unheraIded aet
or word of sympathy and made lne
cheerier and better for many one
whom it was his joy to serve.
II have been told that in his practice
| Of the legal profession and this per
/ hapS is true of lawyers more frequent
/ ly than we layInen suspect-over and
! over again his first care was TO bring
/ Htfgants together. Ever at the ex-
pense of business the service of rssCon-
j Citation had its own compensation and
ff he could realize this compensation;
| the joy Of furthering the spirit of good
viii and peace to men, he was content
to serve, and since he rendered no os-
/ tensihle legal service his client was left
| to pay him for his real service only N
the coin of gratitude.
in conversation with an intimate
| friend not many months before his
/ death he expressed with chara cteristie
earnestness and with great feeling the
conviction that the greatest thing In
the world and the essence OF all relig-
| ion was the service of one s feltewlnen
and the earnestness with which he ex-
pressed this conviction was due, as
those who know him realize. to the FACT
that this was the dominating thought
Of his inner life. He was not given te
sham, and was scorner of cant, but
the fountains of his religious life were
deep. He was not a stranger Of tbs
influences of current religious thought
he cid not view problems Of faith viii
Indifference nor pass them by without
reflection, but he blended with fnteln
gent breadth and tolerance, the sim
. | plicdty of a steadfast nature anchored
/ in the faith Of childhood. He loyet
God; he loved his fell0wmen. He be
lieved IN immortality
Through the storm and cloud h
! saw the sweet sad face of Christ, an
believed in the power of the divine per
sonaIity as IT has wrought in the heart
Of men,
IN this place of public assembly, sa
cred dis it is as the home and cente
of his religious life. must not tres
, pass beyond the limits of that othe
sacred place, even If I cared to dral
. the veil and to reveal the secrets of tn
tender intinacies and joyous compar
fonships of the family life. We mour
today In sympathetic silence with thos
: who are stricken with the sorest sens
: of loss. Their lives are rich with men
t cries of joy and cheer and love, a hu:
: bands tenderness. a fathers eounse
. the comradeship of a great hearte