The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-20

new itself-he closed his weary eyes
and was at rest.
His Work.
Of the great good done by him on
the supreme bench I will not speak
at length. but content myself with
this thought.
He came when the formative stage
of judicial development was still on,
at a i'm when above all. moral
courage, sound judgment and legal
training a needed-he had all and
more, and gave most freely of all he
mad. and, in the Years to come, the
student of history, civil, political and
judicial will give to him the niche to
which his efforts entitle him and it
Will be high up the wall Of the hal! of
fame.
OF one thing we are assured. that
is. that at no time did our beloved
TREND concern himself as to where
IN the great hall of fame his name
might be placed. He never strived
for material advancement but was
content to do his duty and do good.
1T was a most genuine pleasure for
MN to do some act to. help a fellow
man, and when l think of his great
kindness. of the many, many hene-
fetal acts of his life there comes TO
me the words of Van Dyke, regard
ing fame.
"Famc.
"One thing is certain in regard to
fame; for most of us it will he yery
brief in itself: for all of us it will
be transient in our eniovmcn1 of IL
When death has dropped the curtain
we shall hear no more applause. And
though we fondly dream that it will
continue after We haVe left the stage.
we do not realize how quickly it will
die away in silence while the audi
ence turns to look at the new actor
and the next scene. Our position in
society will be filled as soon as it is
vacated, and our name remembered
cnly Tor a moment-eAcept. please
God, by a few who nave learned to
love us, no because of fame, but
because we have helped them and
lone them some good"
And l then wonder if he will not
be remembered for his helpfulness
and loving kindness even after the
history of his life work shall have
become dimmed with time.
1t was Emerson who said. Life
must he lived on a higher plane. We
must go up to a higher platform to
which we are always invited to as
cend: there the whole aspect of
things changes"
He. for whom We mourn TODAY, at
an times lived on a high plane. his
thoughts We're high, his ideals high
and is views of life were always
Frightened by the beautiful colorings
of his high view point.
"A pioneer in d new sparsely settled
country, where many of the rules of
human conduct We're laXlv observed.
he never for a lost his own
ConSn nf hnpor ~ x,.l-.1.. 3,
in social. business or political aft
fairs he was always honest with him
self. and when one is honest with
himself he is by force of that fact
onest with all the world.
NO time was eve used by him
in pickering or quarreling. His mind
was above such useless waste of time.
With the poet, he said:
Life is too short to waste.
In critic peep or cynic bark,
Quarrel or reprinland:
Twill soon be dark
And so he moved, serenely on down
the stream of life. a busy man in a
busy world. but finding time to scat
ter kind words. the brightest flowers
of earth's existence, along the way.
Attracting hearts by tho qualities he
dlsplaNed n retaining them by the
qualities he possessed. Doing Gods
service in his own way. until no hui
mar mind IAN estimate the far-reach-
ing effect of his daily deeds among
his fellow-men, for We know that
the effect of a good deed is to in
splre other acts kindred to itself. and
these in turn inspire others until like
ripples that move eve outward and
onward until they v the entire
surface Of the sea of human action.
Merit, Not Luck.
Some careless observer might at
tribute the worldly success of Judge
Morgan to that. sometimes praised
and other times, mysterious some
thing called luck-because he never
urged himself. No step was ever
taken by him for the purpose of ad-
vancing his own interests. His adj
Nancement to the highest judicial po-
sition in the state the most honor
able position that can be bestowed
by the people of his commonwealth,
the chief justiceship Of the supreme
court. was because Of the qualities
mentioned as so literally pos
sessed by him. 1t was the set of his
soul that decided the goal as has been
so beautifully expressed in the
"One ship drives east. and another
west
With the selfsame winds that blow,
It's the set Of the sails and not the
gales
That sends us the way We go.
Like the winds of the sea are the
waves Of fate
As We journey along through life.
It's the set Of the soul that decides
the goal.
And not the calm OF the strife"
His life was a living ermon and in
.spiration to all mankind. In time the
seemed inborn that
Every task. however simple,
Sets the soul that does. it free;
Every. deed Of love. and mercy,
Done to man Is done to me-"
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