The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-31
THEY SAY GOOD BY
Friends of Late Justice Greene
Gather at His Bier.
Funeral Services Held at First
Presbyterian Church.
DIR. ESTEY'S SERMON.
Kansas Has Need of Such Men,
Said He.
Only a Small Part of His Good
Qualities Known.
DIR. ESTEY'S SERMON.

The funeral services over the remains
| of Adrian L. Greene, associate justice of
the Kansas supreme court, were held at
| 10 o'clock this morning at the First
| Presbyterian church and were conduct
| ed by the pastor, Rev. S. S. Estey. The
| casket, which rested in front of the altar
| directly beneath d bank of floral Offer
| lngs, was opened an hour prior to the
| services and friends permitted for the
last time in this city to look upon the
race of the deceased jurist.
The song service consisted of three se.-
lections. Lead, Kindly Light" zone
Sweetiy Solemn Thought" and Nearer,
My God, to Thee sung by a quartette
OF mixed voices, composed of Mrs. Geo.
Thacher and Mr.. H. c. Pribble and Mr.
James Moore. The attendance consisted
of the intimate friends OF Justice Greene
and was made up largely of the lawyers
of the city and state.
DR.. EStey spoke from the scripturaI
text Isaiah, 66-13, LAS one whom his
mother comforteth, so will I comfort
you; and We shall be comforted in
Jerusalem" and said: TT is the lack
of such men as we are gathered here
today to honor which threatens the life
of our commonwealth and the loss of
their influence tends toward a period of
decline.
Justice Greene was a self-made man
anu d hdilSdS 1nOuSh missouri
claims the honor of his BIRTH it was in
this state he began his struggles
at an age when most young men are in
college 1t was during the struggles
which began and have ended in Kansas
that the sterling worth and the man
were developed and where his memory
Will stand as rugged monument to
his honesty of heart and purity of pur-
pose.
1.-The three principles which are es-
SRnfi9l tn a
by Justice Greene: industry, honesty
and courage. Too many men are
honest in the little town where they
are reared and known and when they
are elevated to a. high place among
their fellowmen forget and are
swerved from their course by the de-
sire to please the new friends with
whom they find themselves surround
ed. 1t is then that the courage of
conviction is needed most. Justice
Greene was a shining example of this
trait so often found Ia cking in men.
Those things which appealed to
him as an obscure lawyer as honest
and good, found the same place in his
mind after he was elevated to a place
on the supreme bench of the state.
There was no trucking to selfstyled
friends when there was "a question in
his mind as to the righteousness of
the claims pressed by them.
I'VE know but little of the great
ness of the heart of the man for there
was but little to be seen. l have
travelled in the far north and watched
the beauties of a passing iceberg when
the rays of sunlight penetrated the
crags and caverns and touched with
their radiance the towering pinnacles
and marveled at the beauty of nature.
Then stood awed as I realized that
but small portion of the mountain
OF ice was exposed to my view and
wondered of the beauties of the I'M
seen in the towering mass.
80 it is with Justice Greene. We
have been able to see but small part
of the good in the man who lies here
before US today and yet we are awed
and reverence his memories for the
many good things in his life which it
has not been our good fortune to
know. 1t is as impossible to describe
by words the purity of purpose and
goodness of heart of our brother as it
is for an artist to trace the glories of a
beautiful sunset on canvas or do JUS
tice to the beauties of nature. 1t is
the unseen things which make life
great.
1T Is rare privilege to know such a
man as we are gathered here today to
honor as the last act of brother to
brother; one whose life has always been
the same whether in public or in private
and he sleeps the honored sleep today
that few men do"
The services were necessarily short as
arrangements had been made for the re-
mains to leave on the II o'clock train
for Newton. the old home of the dead
jurist, where the body will lie in state
for a half hour and another service will
be pronounced by Rev DIR. Estey
{ A
number Of tie state officers accompan-
led the remains to Newton, Mrs. Burch,
Mrs Porter and Mrs. Graves, wives of
supreme court justices, accompanying
Mrs. Greene.
The honorary pallbearers in this city
as well as at Newton were the justices
of the supreme court with the exception
of Justice H. F. Mason, who is in the
north and with whom friends have not
been able to communicate the news of
the death of Justice Greene. The ac-
tive pallbearers were J. S. West, Dell
Keller. w. w. Mills, w. S. Lindsay,
David Bowie and Scott Hopkins. The
interment will be in the cemetery at
Newton.