with the supremely important task of giving it a soul", and which does not make for itself a special sphere for which it claims a peculiar sanctity". To him the spiritual was an active element, not a "mysterious, dreamy, enchanted process, which romanticism conceived it to be ". His religion developed a "spiritual substance" instead of "fostering a subjective excitement ". It was a religion which "reverenced the freedom of man, summoned him to a life of busy activity and gave him a vigorous, confident temper He was one in whom had lodged the influence of co-operative history and gave expression to it by a life whose depth and force and meaning can not be appreciated nor even seen by those yet of the mould of the thought of the seventeenth century. comprehensive whole of life", "invested | for the best, and felt that there was a possibility of his again returning to us. It was unfortunately but too true, and we are here to-day doing for him what he in a long career at the Bar, has done for many fellow-members who have passed to the great beyond. We have all lost among those who are gone friends, and the Bar has suffered by their departure. I may say, however, without any discredit to our honored dead, or want of respect to those of us who are living, that there was but one Hensel. The gap that has been caused by his death cannot be filled. Among us who knew him, who honored him, who respected him, and who loved him, it is scarcely necessary to say whence he came and what he accomplished. There was practically no walk of public life that he did not enter and none that he did not grace. He never deserted a friend and I know of no man, woman or child who would have called himself or herself his enemy. Bountiful in the extreme, charitable almost to a fault. the plenty he acquired by arduous labor he gave in abundance. He had no desire to become rich. His ambition was to help others and to do good. Of this Bar he was easily the leader, and proud we were to have such a leader. It will seem strange indeed not to hear his voice eloquently and forcefully pleading the cause of a client. Why it was but yesterday we felt the grasp of his hand, listened to his brave talk, a true index to his great mind and courageous spirit; basked in the sunshine of his frank smile-debtors as we all were to his flowing kindness; drank the cordial of his living presence and took no thought of fate. And now he is dead. There are reasons why there is no man in Pennsylvania held in higher esteem than was William Uhler Hensel. John E. Malone said: In moving the adoption of these resolutions, I desire in a few words to offer my tribute of respect to a man I esteemed it more than an honor to have counted as a friend. He was all of that to me. Shortly after my coming to the Bar he advised me to enter politics, telling me that it was necessary for a young man to become known, that he might secure clients. Upon his retirement it was through his influence I succeeded him as Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, and it was likewise through his influence that I became postmaster of Lancaster city. Many times in difficult situations I have sought his advice and he generously gave it. In the afflictions I met in my own private life I time and again came to him and like the man and friend he was he shared the burden with me, and now Hensel is dead. When I received the news on Saturday morning I was loathe to believe it. I knew that he was dangerously ill, yet with all of you, I hoped Of It will seem strange indeed not to see him pass by my house beckoning to me with a cordial wave of his hand, on his way to the home of his daughter, whom he loved almost to idolatry. With Hensel gone there will be something missing in the to-morrows of all of his friends. Hensel not only wrote history, he made it. Dead he is, 'tis true, but his memory will live and be cherished with love long after all of us shall have been forgotten. Good-bye, my friend, I can but ex- | being stout and energetic all down the press the hope that we shall meet again, and until then-farewell. H. R. Fulton said: Mr. Chairman and Brethren of the Bar I am told that among the friends who called upon Mr. Hensel late the evening before he started on his trip South was Rev. Mr. MacGowan, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member. busy years of his most eventful life. I left him at school when I threw down my books and went off to the army. That was a great group of boys sitting at the feet of Professor Gamaliel Howard Rawlins. Dr. John B. Deaver, now the most distinguished surgeon in Philadelphia; behind his noted brother, sons of Dr. Dr. Will Deaver following very closely Deaver, of the Buck; Robert B. Risk, and Will Hensel. All born within fifteen miles of the birthplace of Dr. D. Hayes Agnew, America's most distin In bidding good-bye, Mr. MacGowan wished him a pleasant and helpful jour-guished surgeon, two miles from the ney, the peace of God be with him. Mr. Hensel replied: "That he was at peace with God and at peace with all the world". The splendid history of Lancaster County has lost her greatest champion. The business community has lost one of the safest and best counselors. And we all have lost a friend. My first acquaintance with Mr. Hensel was when we played "ball" against the brick walls of Chestnut Level Academy. He was short and stout and easy to hit. I was thin and wirey and I mostly got the best of it. Since those days, however, he has outstripped me many times in the trial of cases. He was a hustler at school and he has carried the characteristic personality of birthplace of Dr. David Ramsey, a most South Carolina, at one time Speaker of distinguished physician of Charleston, the lower House of Congress, author of the first History of the American Revolution the History of the United States and the Life of Washington. Three miles from the birthplace of Robert Fulton, who more than a hundred years ago taught the British government the use of torpedoes as a weapon of warfare, now being used so effectively in the European War. Can it be that the wonderful career of these noted men, who were to the manner born, inspired Hensel to the exertion of his great energy and the development of a superior natural talent of which he found himself possessed. As I trace the life and career of Mr. Hensel, I easily arrive at the conclusion that every step in his life work was necessary and helped to the wonderful success to which he attained. Chestnut Level Academy and the influence of Professor Rawlins was necessary for his success at Franklin and Marshall College. The classic training of Franklin and Marshall was necessary to his subsequent work on the "Lancaster Intelligencer". The editorial schooling of the "Intelligencer" was required to equip him for his great success as a Common Pleas and Equity and Supreme Court practitioner. All these I say were necessary and were useful in the making of a great man. His leadership in the Re-Union of Chestnut Level Academy students on the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the school and the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Robert Fulton, at Fulton House, and the placing of a tablet on the old homestead, the anniversary of the Christiana Riot, at Christiana, the tablet to General Hand, at Williamson Park, as well as his great interest in all matters of local history, show his extraordinary respect for good men and for good work well done by those who lived and labored here as he has also done. I have mentioned the names of Ramsey, Agnew, Fulton, and Deaver, as to the manner born. But why stop at the Quarryville line. A little further north we come to the birthplace of Ex-Lieutenant Governor John M. Reynolds, in Lancaster, General Hand, General Mifflin, General and Admiral Reynolds, General Joseph Fisher, General Hambright, General McCaskey. President Buchanan was not born here in Lancaster County, neither was Thaddeus Stevens, nor H. M. North, but Lancaster County and her people made Buchanan and Stevens and Dickey and North and Judge Yeates and Lewis and Long and Franklin and Reynolds and Brosius. These were all great and good men, but to this constellation must now be added a star of even greater brilliancy than those I have mentioned. The name of Honorable William Uhler Hensel, of Lancaster. John W. Appel said: In the death of Mr. Hensel, as has been well said, the Lancaster Bar has lost its universally acknowledged leader, and this community its most distinguished citizen. Those who stood nearest to him in honor and distinction freely pay this tribute to his memory. It is difficult to realize that he who was always foremost in passing fitting eulogy upon our deceased brethren on occasions like this, is now the recipient of our poor tributes; and that his com manding figure and his eloquent voice have passed forever from this presence. Mr. Hensel's gifts were so varied and covered so wide a field that the pen halts in any attempt at an estimate of his accomplishments. His brilliant intellect, his marvelous memory, and his fluent tongue, entitle him to be ranked among the eminent men of Pennsylvania. As we contemplate his life, his talents, his wonderful activity, his prodigious capacity for work, and the charm of his personality, we cannot fail to realize that he was a man of most extraordinary natural endowments. In placing an estimate upon his attainments, we should assign the first place to his marked ability as a lawyer. His legal briefs were marvels of industry, noted alike for their cogent reasoning and their lucid, logical expressions. He not only was familiar with the authorities but was master of the principles upon which they were founded; and he knew how to apply both precedents and principles to the case in hand. He was the master lawyer in every branch of the profession, whether in the trial of a case before a jury or making an argument before the Courts, or giving advice and counsel to the client in his office. In the difficult art of cross-examination he had few equals; and many a colleague who pressed for further crossexamination was wisely restrained by him and told that it was expedient to drop the witness. He was quick as a flash to catch a telling point in the trial of a case; and his speeches to the jury were fine specimens of forensic eloquence. On one occasion when a pompous witness commenced his testimony by saying, "Well, I faancy", Mr. Hensel quickly said, Not what I faancy please", and the jury at once had the measure of the witness. His record as a lawyer is written in the reports and there it will stand for all time, an imperishable monument to his fame. While we may, therefore, take just pride in his brilliant career as a journalist, which some of us here to-day have followed from its beginning, we must assign a much higher place to his career as a lawyer, which is peculiarly our legacy as members of the Lancaster Bar, of whose Association he was the beloved and respected president. Next to his ability as a lawyer, and closely connected with it, must be noted his high rank as an orator. In him were combined, in a peculiar degree, the rare art of fluency of speech with strong, virile intellectual acumen. His speeches have become celebrated; and who that has ever heard him, from a toast at a banquet to an oration in College Hall or Political Assembly, will not bear witness to the magic power of his eloquence? I remember distinctly the sensation caused by one of his early orations, when yet a mere boy, on the "Ayrshire Plowman", which which presaged the brilliant career as an orator that followed. When he spoke he seemed to be able to draw at will from all the realms of history and literature and art and from all the experiences of life, material with which to embellish, beautify and adorn the thoughts that crowded upon him for expression. Yea, his fame as an orator will live in the traditions of the Bar long after those of us who are here to-day will have passed to the great Beyond. Next in order I would rank Mr. Hensel's literary achievements. When he was a college student, the classics were mere play for him, being able to translate them freely at sight; and he revelled in literary and historical studies-thus giving promise of his future accomplishments in the realm of letters. Mr. Hensel was a prolific writer, and he wrote nothing that was not worth while. Every thought he had, when he came to write, no matter what the subject, seemed to weave itself into a garland of beauty. Local history was a passion with him; and with a memory and fancy, not unlike that of Sir Walter Scott, he threw a spirit of romance about the people and places of his native County that will never die. No one has ever known Lancaster County as he has known it. No one has ever loved its people, its hills and valleys, its streams and its very | soil more than he did. Every spot was sacred to him, and a ride through the County with him was a joy never to be forgotten. His literary and historical productions will live on through the coming years and be read with interest and pleasure by future generations. When his sun was fast setting and he was compelled to withdraw from the strenuous struggles of his profession, he spent his time receiving short calls from his many friends and writing articles and pamphlets upon subjects of local interest. The last words I heard him utter a few days before he started for the Southland where he died, expressed the wish that we might soon be able to meet at another Clio, referring to the literary society of which he was the honored president, and of which he was so justly proud. His life was a full one; and from the standpoint of achievement it was well rounded and complete. Well may it be said of him: "And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed." Judge Hassler said: Mr. Chairman: -Wordsworth. Although we have known for some time that Mr. Hensel's end was fast approaching, it is hard to realize that he is gone, that these places which once knew him so well will know him no more forever. Nor does this fact in any degree soften the sorrow that his passing-away has caused. Mr. Hensel was not only a great man, he was wonderful. With extraordinary talents he combined energy and habits of industry that were unusual, to say the least, and which could not help but make his life the useful and successful one it was. Others will take up his work, but no one will ever take his place in this community, at the bar, or in the hearts of his loved ones and friends. He was prominent along many lines, | tion to his native county through an acnot one of which but is worthy of mention here to-day. I wish, however, more particularly to refer to his relations to this Court, and to testify to the high esteem in which he was held by it. He was always a friend of the Court, helping it not only by the thorough preparation of his cases, and his clear presentation of them, but in many other ways. Though for years he was the busiest lawyer at our Bar, he was always ready with his cases and in Court when needed. I do not recall that we were ever required to send for him, either to try or argue a case. He asked less indulgence from the Court than any member of this Bar. Whilst he contended earnestly, he always graciously submitted to the rulings of the Court, and never have I known or heard of his having questioned the motives of a judge, either here or elsewhere, in arriving at his conclusions. In his death I feel that this Court has lost one of its best and most valued friends. tive and useful life has added lustre to its history, traditions and honor." He loved its people and its products, its history and its legends, its hills and valleys, its rivers and meadow brooks. He never tired in exploiting the thrift and sturdy honesty of its people, its peculiar exemption from battle, plague, pestilence and famine, the equal distribution of its wealth and the equitable opportunities for all. He knew well and cherished nature in all its varied forms, but that of Lancaster County he loved with an absorbing intensity. He marked and noted its wind-swept wheat fields—the blue mist in the early morn that cradled the Welsh Mountains-the woodland moisture that tinctured the air on entering the river hills-the countless shades of green with which Spring painted the fields and trees. He well knew the first flowers of summer and the last berries of autumn. I have known him to plead for the salvation of a hale old tree, and buy a wood lot because he loved to look at them and could not endure the thought of their destruction. A ride with him on any Lancaster County road was a liberal education on the topography, legends, genealogy and resources of the neighborhood. No one else, of my reading and knowledge, has ever garnered together so much new historical data of the county, or preserved with loving solicitude in enduring form. so much of its past. He once told me the dream of his last years would be for leisure to write a history of Lancaster County worthy of it, beginning at the beginning of things (I remember his very phrase) and showing the trickles of different peoples from their European founts down to the presday. him living and mourns him to-day. For Saving only his affection for his fam-ent ily and friends, I think his dominant trait was love for the county of his birth. He loved Lancaster County with every force and fibre of his being. He rejoiced and was proud of being in it and of it. A dozen times I have seen that good gray head with glistening eyes bow over these words on the medal presented to him, "Citizen-whose devo B. F. Davis said: Mr. Chairman: It is rarely indeed that so many men |
