The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-11-29
IAN APPRECIATION
OF N. G. LARINORE

The following address was delivered.
by Pres. E. F. Robertson Of Wesley
college in appreciation of the late n.
G.. Larimore at the memorial service
held in Larimore, Sunday afternoon
Nov. 20.
He lives the most who thinks the
most, feels the noblest, acts the best"
We live by heart throbs. not years.
The years may be few, but the heart
may beat with such noble purposes
and broad sympathy that the world,
shall be ~quickened to betterment. But
if a heart throbs 80 through three
score years and more, that life be-
comes a potent factor for good in it's
generation and to the generations
that folloW. To such a life. We pay
our grateful homage this day.
There are three standards by which
to measure a human life. First, the
present content, the consciousness of
living, the JOY Of achieving. Second,
the effect of the life that abides and
works out results for good or i'll after
one departs this visible world. Third,
the attained personal character that
shall stand revealed in the light Of
eternal values in the court of heaven.
The wisdom and goodness of God are
manifest in this-that all three phases
Of life values are unified in one cons
sistent plan. One may have the keen
est zest for life and delight in con-
sciOuS achievement, while at the same
time he Is investing in the gratitude
of his fellow men and preparing him
self to stand without shame among
the immortal in the court Of Christ.
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example Of this sort of unified life.
Brother N. G. Larimore felt a real
zest in living. He was broadly intel
ligent. He was keenly alive to the
political movements of his day, and
thought in terms of national and in
ternational tendencies. His interest
in business affairs was Of like range.
But breadth of interest did not weak
en- effort upon the task in hand. He
had such command of himself that he
could concentrate all his powers upon
each single undertaking in It's turn
and that with great effectiveness.
While he was broad In thought and
sympathy, he was intense In his con-
victions and activities. Though a man
or that saved him from the formal
logic that conducts differing belief to
mutual enmity. .
The sense of humor finds g. way Of
escape from the rigic process Of for
NAL logic. The logic of humor Is the
logic Of life that is full Of surprises.
The intense man without humor Is
severe. even cruel, but no more loyal
to his ideals than the one whose sense
of humor finds the alternative not re-
vealed to mere logic. This sense of
humor appears in a remarkable de-
gree in the talks of Jesus. A Samari-
tan village denies him hospitality be-
cause his face is set toward Jerusa-
lem. His disciples adopt formal logic
and conclude that fitting vengeance
should call down fire from heaven to
consume the offenders. Jesus said,
Eye know not what spirit ye are of.
Ye are called to save mems lives, not
to destroy Them" and he went to an
other village. In SO doing, he found
the place of rest he sought while con-
tinuing his journey toward Jerusalem.
Paul had this same happy faculty
Of finding the way of escape out of
the severe logic of situations. At the
close Of a. life of loyal service to the