The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-08

can not do before II O'Clock saturday
night. or after L. O'Clock Sunday
night, God does not want you to do ut
all. Besides that, you want the "a
hours of the Sabbath rest TO give you
that electrical and magnetic force
which will be worth more to Won be-
fore the jury than all the elaboration
of your case on the sacred day. NV
intimate and lamented friend. the late
Judge Nelson, in his interesting
"reminiscences Of Rufus Choate, saws
that during the last case that gentle.
man tried in New York the court adj
journed from Friday until Monday on
account of the illness OF Mr.. Choat, but
the ~chronicler says that on the inter
vening Sunday he saw NJ. Choate In
the old Brick Church. listening TO the
Rev. DR.. Gardiner Spring. | do not
know whether, 81 the following da y,
Rufus CiloGte won the case or lost It;
but | do know that his sabbath rest
did not do him nyharm. Every law yer
is entitled to one days rest ont OF
seven. If he ~surrenders that, he rohs
three-God, his own soul, and his
client. Lord Castlereagh and Sir
Thomas Romilly were the leaders OF
the bar in their day. They both died
suicides. Wilberforce accounts for
their alteration of intellect on the
ground that they were uuintermittent
in their work, and they never rested on
Sunday. ''Poor fellow said Wilber-
force, in regard to Castlereagh. Poor
fellow.it was non-observance of thcsab-
bath" Chief Justice Hale says: when
| do not properly keep the Lords day,
all the rest OF the week is unhappy and
unsuccessful in my worldly employ |
ment." | quote to-day from the highest
statute book in the universe: Re-
member the sabbath day to keep it
holy" The legal gentleman who breaks
that statute may seem for awhile to be
advantagcd; but in the long run, the
men who observe the law of God will
have larger r~etaincrs, vaster influence,
greater professional success. than those
men who break the statute. OBJ
servance of the law of Goo pays not
only spiritually and etcrnally, but it
ItLNS Al jihit 'tiluIS' VI Jain bAllNs |
Another powerful temptation of the
legal profession is to artificial stimu-
lus. No one except those who have
addressed audiences knows about the
nervous exhaustion that sometimes1
comes afterwards. The temptations
to strong drink approaches the legal
profession at that very point. Through
the ill-yentilated courtroom, the
barrister's health has been de-
pressed for days and for weeks. He
wants to rally his energy. He is Tempt
ed to resort to artificial stimulus. 1t
is either to get himself up, or let him
self down. The flower of the Ameri-
can bar, ruined in reputation and
ruined in estate, said in his last mo
ments: This is the end, | am dying
on a borrowed bed, covered with a bor-
rowed sheet, in d house built by public |
charity. Bury me under that tree in
the middle of the field, that | may not
be crowded; l always have been crowd
ed"
Another powerful temptation Of the
legal profession is to allow the absorb
ing duties of the profession to shut out
thoughts of the great future. You
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