Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-12-01
Message to Mayor Fuller.

message 10 Mayor = uteT.
"A message of fellowship and APP
probation to Mayor Fuller" by Rev
G.. +. Stimson was read as follows:
To the Honorable. Norman X. Full
ler Mayor of the City of Waterville.
Greeting: 1t is my privilege to eX-
press the love and appreciation which
the members of the churchmen's FEEDER
ation OF Waterville feel for you, mind
full Of the burden of illness you are
your heart by our sympathy.
Though not bodily with us at this
annual banquet, we feel your heart
here with US, loyal and earnest as
ever in Your interest in all that we
are doing and saying here and all
that we shall undertake for the good
of our city, and to make Christian
service more efficient.
A year ago you We're with us, as
the chief guest of honor Gas we hold
you still tonight, modestly wearing
the highest hOnOrs in the gift of the
city. You stood there re-affirming
welfare of the whole people, and we
had the jov of saluting you, with no
party division or reserves of conf
dence. with hearty applause expressive
of goodwill and perfect trust You
knew Enthusiastically that you We're
surrounded and supported by true
friends. That was festival hour.
True friends have no solitary JOY or
sorrow" (Channing) Tonight the
shadow of your absence draws up ana
tie whole community near to YOU
and to your family that we may to-
gether give you renewed assurances of
orr love and good wishes. Would tina
we might frame some fadeless sor-
ganism which might continually speak
our sympathy and affection like n
rose-vine fragrant and comforting a..
the flowers Of God. For these are not
dead words we offer YOU They arc
the substance of cur hearts
But we will not forget your modcsty
and must therefore curb our words
to limits which will not cause YOU
TO shrink from our meaning
"Modesty seldom resides in q breast
That is not enriched with noble yir-
tues Oioidsmith) and those virtues
which enrich you compel our pra Use
as they have enhanced our debt, 1.-THE
boughs that bear most hang lowest
runs German proverb, and your low
fr"ightcd humility must not forbid us
to remember gratefully how richl,
laden your life is as a churchman an(
citizen and a public servant. $40.
night we would warmly grasp Io,u
hand in recognition of our debt and
the community's debt to you. WIS wish
yon ia feel how. active and undimin-
ished your power and influence are
amongst us, AND that we are not for
getting tonight the zeal and good
counsel which YOU will add to oul
efforts for the common veal.
We are reminded, naturally enough
as we realize what we owe to YOU
as an inspiring friend and fellow
citizen, and as a stainless and eff.
cient officer of the municipality,-we
are reminded, | say, of Woodrow Viii
sons address before the America,
Bar Association ION Augusta 3lst
1910 on the theme The Lawyer and
the community" You will recall how
he depicts the perils of our changins
order. revolutionary in their trend, ;
virtual reconstruction OF our social
order though we can be safely and
equitab'v carried as IA nation onI,
provided these forces of change mr.,
guided, Gas in former days in sim
liar crises when trained constitutional
LAWYERS and statesmen were in lea OH.
for the public good) by a new race
| OF lawyers who knew themselves t.
be servants of society,"" the bond
servants of justice" ready in ever,
crisis to give expert and disinter-
ested advice to those who purpose
progress and the REIMBURSEMENT of the
frontiers of Justice He reminds us
that public life is peculiarly a law
yer's forum. That the statesman and
lawyer are normally clients and con.
sorts, and that through them properl,
the legal conscience of the people i,
constantly refreshed and strength
ened." He pleads for recognition
of the need of these invaluable in.
tiuenceS, today as of old. Ito insure
the character and solidity of our in.
stitutions:' and points out the peri
in the fact that in our day prevail
ingly lawyers are not now regarded
as the meditators of progress 18th:
country must find lawyers of the right
sort. and of the old spirit to advise
it or it must stumble through Il very
cnaos of blind experiment. 1t never
needed lawyers who are also states
men more than it needs them now
lawyers who can think in terms OF