The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-07-07

hatl day 10 keep II molly. Inc legal gen
tleman who breaks that statute NAV seem
for awhile to be advantared. but in the long
run the men who observe this law OF God
will have larrer retaipevs. vaster influence.
greater professional success than those men
who break the statute. Observance Of the
law Of God paws not only spiritually and
eternally, but il pays in hard dollars of bank
bills.
Another powerful temptation Of the legal
profession is 10 artificial stimulus. No enc
EXCEPT those who have addressed audiences
knows about the nervous exhaustion that
sometimes comes afterward. The temptation
10 strong drink approaches the fegal protcs-
sion 1t that verv point. Then. a trial is COM
;nc on Tnrougb the III ventilated court
room the harr;s,ers bea,th has been de-
nressed for davs and for weeks. He wants
- rally his energy. He is tempted 10 resort
to artificial stimulus 1t is either TO get
birlseyf uu or let himself down that this
temptation comes rpoG him. The flower CT
the American bar, ruined in reputation and
ruipe,i in estate. said in his last moments:
This is the end am dying on a borrow
ed bed, covered with borrowed sheet. in a
house built bv public charity. Bury ne
under that tree in the middle Of the field,
tha- may not ne crowded.. a;wavs have
been crowded"
Another powerful temptation of the legal
| profession is 10 allow the absorbing duties
Of the profession 20 shut out thoughts of the
rreat future. You know very well that you
Who have 50 often tried others will after
awhile be Dut on trial yourselves. Death
will serve on YOU a writ o: ejectment. and
YOU will he put off these earthly premises.
On tbat day all the affairs of your life will
he presented in bill of particulars No
cari;orar; fron, . b;rhar court for This is the
bichest conrt. The dav when Lord Exeter
was tried for bicb treason: the day when the
house Of commons moved for the impeach-
ment os the Lord Lovat; the DAYS when
Charles [ and Queen Caroline were put upon
trial: the dav when Robert Emmet was ar
rairned % an iusurpent: the tiey when Blen-
oerhasset WAS brought into the courtroom
because he had tried TO overthrow the Uni
ted States government, and all the other
great trials of the world are nothing COM
pared with the great trial in which you aud
I shall appear. summoned before the Judge
Of opick and dead.
There will be no pleading there s.the
statute of limitations, no turning state ;
| evidence" irving 10 get off ourselves while
| others suffer, no moving for a non suit y
The case will come on inexorably, aud We
shall be tried. You, my brother, who have
50 often been advocate for others, will then
| need ON advocate for yourself. Have you
selected him, the Lord Chancellor of the
Universe Ifaov man sin. we have an advo-
ca,e-Jesus Christ the righteous. 1t is un-
certain when YOUR case will be called on.
"Be We also ready
LORD Ashburton and Mr. Wallace were
leading barristers in their day. They died
about the sane time. 4 few months before
their decease they happened to be in the
same hotel in village. the one counsel 90
ipr 10 Devonshire. the other going to Lon
don Tbev had both been seized upon BY a
disease wh;cb thew knew would be fatal, and
tbey -e,rastpd inst thew he carried into the
same roor, and laid down on sofas side by
side that thew m;rbt talk over old times and
faIt over the futnre. So they were carried