The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-12-05

I YOU, of course, knew him well. Judge
! Maglnnis, as We all know. was great
lawyer. Great not only In the sense
that he was possessed of u rich store
OF legal learning. but greater still In
that he was possessed of sinSularly
keen, sympathetic nature. Nothing
gave him greater satisfaction than TO
advocate the cause Of the unfortunate
and helpless. 1t WAS apparently nee
essary requirement OF his mental or
| Elnizatlon TO think clearly and 10 give
expression to his conclusions with alb
soiutc fearlessnesS and candor. Al
though an aggressive advocate, L
never knew him TO be otherwise than
respectful OF the court and courteous
towards his fellow-members OF the
bar In all that the simple Anglo
Saxon term implies, he was every
inch 4 man With what unflinching
fortltude he battled with the fatal
paady which assailed him, and in
the extremity OF the last hours of his
life his mind, not approaching on his
own approaching dissolution. went out
in almost unprecedented fidelity to
! tho welfare of 4 client whose serious
! interests had been entrusted TO him.
Then, as always, he was as true to
! his client as the needle to the pole.
In thinking OF his last illness one
naturally recalls that of cX-Presldent
Grant, OF whose death Cannon Farrar
| once said: But Gods ways are not
our ways. To bear that sudden ruin,
that speechless agony required Il
courage nobler and greater than that
OF the battlefield. and human courage
grows magniflcently to the height OF
human need. Il am a man. said Fred
erick the Great, and therefore born
To suffer On the long agonizing
deathbed Grant showed himself every
inch a hero, bearing his agonies and
his trials without a murmur, with
rugged stoicism in nninching fortI-
| tude'
MY friends. intimately associated
with our reflections concerning death
are those concerning life The one
/ IS the inevitable consequence of the
other. Today were are here, tOmor-
| row we are gone Does it not behooye
us to look this plain fact squarely in
! the face, and order our lives and our
| conduct towards one another accord
| ingsly.
AS we gain in experience, we all
come more and more to the conclu-
sion that large part OF our striving
and contention mere below Is on ac-
count OF tancied and not real differ
! erceS OF opinion. / am often reminded
In this connection Of the story Of the
two men who looked at a shield from
opposite SIDES. one said IT was black
md the other said it was white The
dispute grew into quarrel of most
serious proportions But at length
they reversed their positions. and to
their surprise found that the shield
was white on one side and black on
the other. Thus we see their alterca.
tlOn resulted wholly from their differ.
ent point of View. And SO we pass
through life looking at things from
different angles, Our vision is neces-
sGrily Imperfect and restricted We
see through u glass darkly' Conse.
qIently, strife arises with reference
TO business. politics. religion and to
most all of our social affairs: and
while 1t is not given us to see things
precisely as they are and as they ap.
| pear from various points of view.
should we not at least regard with
liberal Indulgence the opposing opln.
lens OF our tellow-men. realizing that
after all, we may simply be looking
a. the object OF the controversy from
different points OF view?
; In respect 10 this phase of human
experience. | am convinced that there
has been great progress since the
nediaeval time: for Instance, when
Abelard, Thomas Aquinas, Dun Scotus
and the schoolmen filed Libraries with
their fine spun arguments, and eacr
regarding the other as an enemy oyeI
: the slightest difference OF opinion
( How different II has been with thos,
( like Descartes, Hobbs and Locke
Berkley and dune, who have engaged
= III the modern discussions OF scienc,
=, and philosophy.
j Even In the domain of religion
y where the human emotions are mostly
, Involved and. therefore. where It (!
= most difficult to deal philosophical,
Q with the many questions which sep
o arate individuals. intolerance has
: gradually lessened and broad hu
u man sympathy has taken its place
/ II such is the case Ia the larger fields
l. OF social activity II should not be les
/ so in the smaller and personal affair
Il oil He. Let us strive NIGHTLY 70
c those things which We believe TO b,
9 right but, like good nelghbors, let u
| eat and drink together and lend
8 helping hand acre and there as W,
/. journey along. n
7, After all. what Is the creates