The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01

the jury than all the elaboration OF your
case on the sacred day. Ny intimate and
lamented friend the late Judge Nelson, In
his interesting "reminiscences OF Rufus
Choate, says that during the last case that
gentleman tried In New York the court
| adjourned from Friday until Monday on
account OF the illness OF Mr.. Choate' but
the chronicler says that on the Intervening
Sabbath he saw Mr.. Choate in the old
Brick church." listening to the Rev. DR..
Gardiner Spring.
l do not know whether, on the following
day. Rufus Choate won his cause or lost it,
but do know that his Sabbatic rest did
not do him any harm. Every lawyer IL en-
titled to one days rest out of seven. N he
surrenders that. he robs 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 unintermittent In their work. and
they never rested on Sunday. poor fel.
low!' said Wilberforce In regard to Cas-.
tlereagh; ''poor fellow. 1t was mon.
observance OF the Sabbath" Chief
Justice Hale says: "When do not
properly keep the Lords day, all the
rest OF the week is unhappy and unsuccess-
ful In my worldly employment" | quote
to-day from the highest statute book in the
universe, Remember the Sabbath day to
keep it holy" The legal gentleman who
breaks that statute may seem for a while
to be advantaged but in the long run the
men who observe this law OF God will have
larger retainers, vaster influence, greater
professional success than those men who
break the statute. Observance OF the law
oil God pays not only spiritually and
eternally, but 1t pays In hard dollars or
bank bills.
Another powerful temptation OF the legal
profession is to artificial stimulus. No one
except those who have addressed au dences
knows about the nervous exhaustion that
sometimes comes afterward. The tempta.
tion to strong drink approaches the legal
profession at that very point. Then trial
Is coming on. Through the i'll ventilated
courtroom the barrister's health has been
depressed for days and for weeks. He
wants to rally his energy. He is tempted to
resort to artificial stimulus. 1t Is either to
get himself up or let himself down that this
temptation comes upon him. The flower
OF the American bar, ruined in reputation
and ruined in estate. said in his last mo-
ments: This Ia the end. ] am dying on
borrowed bed, covered with borrowed
sheet in n house built by public charity.
Bury me under that tree in the middle of
the field, that may not be crowded. l al
ways have been crowded"
Another powerful temptation OF the legal
profession is to allow the absorbing duties
OF the profession to shut out thoughts of
the great future. You know very well that
you who have SO often tried others will after
awhile be put on trial yourselves. Death
VIII serve on you writ of ejectment, and
You will be put Off these earthly premises
On that day all the affairs of your life will
be presented in n "bill Of particulars" No
certtorari from n higher court for this is
the highest court. The day when Lord En-
eter was tried for high treason the day
when the house OF commons moved for the
impeachment of Lord Lovat: the days when
Charles Land Queen Caroline were put upon
trial; the day when Robert Emmett was ar
raigned rs an insurgent; the day when
Blennerhasset was brought into the court
room because he had tried to overthrow the
United States Government, and all the other
great trials of the world are nothing COM
pared with the great trial In which you and
shall appear, summoned before the Judge
OF quick and dead. There will be no plead
ing there 1.-THE statute of limitations" no
turning states evidence" trying to get
oil ourselves while others suffer- no ''mov-
ing for nonsuit." The case will come on
inexorably, and we shall be tried. You,
my brother, who have so often been advo-
cate for others, will then need an advocate
Lord Chancellor of the Universe? If any
man sin, we have an advocate, Jesus Christ
the righteous. Ii Is uncertain when your
case will be called on. BE ye also ready"
Lord Ashburton and Mr. Wallace were
leading barriSters in their day. They died
about the same time. A few months before
their decease they happened to be in the
same hotel in village, the one counsel
going to Devonshire, the other going to
I,nnHnn 'Hhnu ha1 hot hnnn .l
by disease which they knew would be IA
tai, and they requested that they be carried
into the same room and laid down on sofas |
side by side, that they might talk over old
times and talk over the future. SO they
were carried in, and, lying there on op- |
posite sofas, they talked over their old
contests at the bar, and then they
talked OF the future world, upon which |
they must soon enter. 1t was said to have
been very affecting and solemn interview |
between Mr.. Wallace and Lord hshburton. |
My subject to-day puts you side by side |
with those men in your profession who |
have departed this life, some of them skep- |
teal and rebellious, some OF them penitent |
childlike and Christian. Those were wan
dering stars for whom is reserved the |
blackness of darkness forever, while these
others went up from the courtroom OF earth |
to the throne of eternal dominion. Through |
Nhiist tuc auNocute tn'se got glorious |
acquittal. In the other ease 1t was q hope |
less lawsuit-an unpardoned sinner versus |
the Lord God Almighty. Oh, what disas-
trous litigationl Behold, he comes The |
Judge, the Judge, the clouds of heaven,
the judicial ermlne, the great white throne,
the judicial bench, the archangels voice
that shall wake the dead, the crier, Come,
ye blessed depart, ye cursedl'the acquittal !
or the condemnation. "And l saw the |
dead, small and great, stand before God,
and the books were opened"
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