Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-08-20

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We Iay" COM now to the most utter
c>;irg part &c this great trial The
cv.r &c" a.. in, - lvoca:cs speak
rrofc-s.hn of an advocate is fall
responsibility. In Elgiand and the
United States there have arisen men
who in this calling h We been honorei
b. their race and thrown contempt
upon tho Z in the profession who have
been guilty of a great many mean
ness. i hat profession will be honor
o-ablc 80 long as it has attached to l.
such names a5 Mansfield, and Mar
shall. an Story. aad Kent, aud South
GVl, and VII lam Writ. Tn court
room has somvtimca been thr scene OF
very marvellous ard thrilling things
- M of you remember the famous
Girard will case. where one OF our adj
locates pleaded the caus, of the Bible
and Christianity in mastcrly Anglo
Saxon, every paragraph a thunderb1lt.
Some of yoI have read Of the famous
trial in Westminster hall of Warren
Hastings, the dcspoilcr OF India. That
great man had Conquered India by
sp.cn i'd talents, by courage, by brides,
by gigantic dishonesty, The whole
world had rung with applause ~ con
demnation. Gathered in Westm!ns
hall, Place whore - kings
had been inauguratea, was uac
of the most famous au licIccs
eyrP gathcre |. Foreign ministers
and princes sat there. Peers
marched In, clad in ermlae and golI
Mighty men and wonea from all lands
locked down upon the scene. Amid all
that pomp and splendor. All amid an
cScit, mrnt such as has seldom been
seen in any court room. T. Edmund
Burke advanced in speech which will
las. as long as the English language,
concluding with this burning charge,
which made Warren Hastings cringc and
COVER: Il impeach him in the name of
the Commons House of Parliament,
whose trust he has betrayed. | i'm
peach him in the name of the English
nation, whose ancient honor he has
sullied. impcach him in the name OF
the people OF India, whose rights he
has trampled on and whose country he
has turned into n desert. And, lastly,
il the name of human nature IN the
name of both sexes, in the name of
every age and rank, impeach him as
the common enemy and oppresSor cf
all"
But | turn from the recital of these
memorable occasions to grander trial,
and have to tell you that in this trial
of the Christian, for the life of his soul
the advocates are mightier, mightier,
and more eloquent. The evidence
all being in, severe and stern justice
rises on behalf of the prosecution
to make his plea. With the Bible
open in his hand, he reads the law,
stern and flexible, and the penalty:
The soul that sinneth il shall die"
Then he says: 80 thou Judge and Law
giver, this is Thine own statute, and
all the evidence in earth and Heaven
agrees that the man has sinned against
these enactments. Now let the sword
/ leap from its scaIbard. Shall a man
go through the very flames of Sinai I'M
! singcd? Let the law be executed. Let
Judgment be pronounced. Let him die.
| demand that he der
o Christian, does it not look very
dark for thee? Who will plead on thy
side in so forlorn cause? Sometimes
q m N will be brought into a court of
law, and he will have no friends and
no money, and the Judge will look over
the bar and say: as there anyone who
will volunteer to take this mans case
and DIS end him?" And some young
man rises up and says: al will be his
counsel" perhaps starting on from
that very "0int to a great and brilliant
career. Now, in this matter of the SOUL
as you have nothine-to pay for counsel,
do you think that anyone will volun: