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fear or favor. The source whence these endearing and noble qualities 

 were derived was not far to seek. It was faith in the power of good 

 over evil; faith in the capacity of his fellow men for self-govern- 

 ment; faith in the wisdom of the fathers of our institutions; faith, 

 unshaken faith, in the efficiency of the system of constitutional gov- 

 ernment which they established and its adequacy to protect the rights 

 and liberties of the people. And, above all, there was an abounding 

 faith in Divine Providence, the faith of a Christain, which domi- 

 nated his being and welded all his faculties into a harmonious whole, 

 causing his nature to be resonant with the melody of hope and charity, 

 which made him what he was — a simple, kindly, generous, true, brave, 

 and devoted public servant, treading with unswerving step the path 

 of duty, until the tender voice of the All-Wise and Merciful Father 

 called him from labor to rest, from solicitude to peace, and to his 

 exceeding and enduring reward. 



" Mr. Attorney General, the resolutions of our brethren of the bar 

 will be made a part of the records of the court. In making this order 

 the thought comes unbidden to the mind that if there be in the future, 

 by either the bench or the bar, a failure to discharge duty because of 

 the want of an honest effort to do so, the resolutions will become the 

 test of our moral insufficiency and be a relentless instrument for our 

 condemnation. But the shadow created by these misgivings is at 

 once dispelled by our conviction that although the Chief Justice has 

 gone before, yet doth he abide with us by his precept and example, 

 which I can not refrain from hoping will be a spiritual beacon lead- 

 ing both bench and bar to a perfect dedication of all their powers to 

 the complete discharge of their whole duty. Ah ! In the luminosity 

 afforded by that example and precept, and with the benign vision 

 given by that faith which js the proof of things unseen, may the 

 hope not be indulged in that the result of such a consecration to duty 

 will enable us to behold a continued righteous administration of 

 justice, a preservation of our constitutional government, the fructifi- 

 cation of all the activities of our vast country for the benefit of the 

 whole people, the abiding of tranquility and happiness in all the 

 homes of all our land, and the continued enjoyment by all our 

 countrymen of individual liberty restrained from license and safe- 

 guarded from oppression." 



Other touching tributes to Chief Justice Fuller might be cited. 

 They all portray an earnest, efficient jurist, a man true to the wise 

 principles that guide the daily life of an upright American citizen 

 who holds the exalted position of Chief Justice of the United States. 



