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What he was. he was to the heart's 

 core. Without a trace of affectation. 

 We shall presently commit his body to 

 the earth, and shall see him no more 

 until we are chanfjed as he has been, 

 but these are virtues that cannot die. 

 an immortal glory surrounds them; 

 they will shine like stars in our mem- 

 ory, and be a help and an inspiration 

 when our spirits falter and our cour- 

 age is like to fail. It was said of Cato 

 that "people never knew the value of 

 him until they lost him." So it will 

 be for many with our friend. 



It is not for me, nor is this the 

 place, to speak of Samuel Miller as a 

 lawyer or a man of science. Others 

 more competeut than I will do that on 

 the tit occasion. Perhaps it will not 

 be altogether easy for some to under- 

 stand how tendencies appa'ently so 

 radically opposite as those manifest in 

 the successful pursuit of both law and 

 science could be united in a single 

 man — a profound interest in what is 

 based mainly on custom, tradition, ex- 

 pediency on the one hand; and in that 

 which seems absolute, fixed and invar- 

 iable on the other. But I have no 

 doubt' that he found the "spiritual 

 nexus " in the fact that amid all the 

 fluctuations of legal enactments and 

 opinion there are eternal principles 

 analogous to the laws that govern the 

 material universe, and that the histor- 

 ical evolution of justice is not less real 

 and not less certain than the evolution 

 of the vegetable and animal world 



"Alas, that nccxpfcted guest. 

 Who waits for no man's leisure, has slept in, 

 Uoa.'^ked acil unannounced, lo put a stop 

 To all occupations and designs " 



The powers of physical endurance 

 were exhausted— our friend lies low. 

 The golden bowl is broken, but who 

 shall say that the silver cord which 

 bound onr hearts together has been 

 snapped asunder.' The lawyer has 

 laid down his law books, the geolo- 

 gist has dropped his hammer, the au- 

 thor his pen: but who shall say that 

 the thinker has ceased to think be- 



cause the brain is still.' that the af- 

 fections of the husband, the father, 

 the brother and the friend are dead, 

 because the heart has ceased to beat.' 

 For one, I do not, I can not befieve it. 

 We pri^e so much the beaming eye, 

 the loving touch, the accustomed voice, 

 that when they are gone we are strick- 

 en with a sense of absolute loss. But 

 though we relinquish this outward, 

 visible form, the man will remain — a 

 priceless possession in the memories 

 of all who loved him. He, like so 

 many who are dear to us, has only 

 preceded us to the silent land — silent 

 now, but one day, I fondly hope and 

 trust, to become vocal to us with the 

 heavenly greetings of those who have 

 gone before. 



Death has one indisputable lesson 

 for all — an old one: "We ought to 

 cherish our friends tenderly, because 

 we know not whether they are to abide 

 with us a long time or not." Let us, 

 therefore, cherish them as if we were 

 to lose them, and when we have lost 

 them, cherish them still. 



The deepest lesson of our friend's 

 life as of the lives of so many who do 

 not know how to utter the other men's 

 shibboleths, is contained in — 



"The simple thought 

 By the great Master taught; 

 Not he that rcpeatelh the name. 

 But he that doeth the will." 



This is the everlasting gospel. 



I'-arewell, dear friend! Rest, weary 

 body, from thy labors! Rise, immor- 

 tal spirit, into the greater and diviner 

 life." 



The monument that marks the last 

 resting place of this most noted geolo- 

 gist seems peculiarly appropriate. The 

 base is a large section of dressed and 

 beveled New Hampshire granite. Upon 

 this is mounted a pedestal of the same 

 material highly polished. This is sur- 

 mounted by a log of fossilized wood, 

 four feet in length and three and one 

 half feet in diametet, obtained by Mr. 

 Miller himself from the "Pctriclid For- 

 ests" of Arizona, which he visited in 



