The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-07-10
regard TO religion and ). ,is believing.

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but through their hearts. Except We
become as little child. ye shall in no
wise enter the Kingdom of God" II
you do not become a Christian, o. man
of the legal profession. until you can
reason this thing out In regard TO God,
and Christ. and the Immortality of the
soul, you will never become a Christian
ut all. Only believe. Bring Zenas
the lawyer.
Another mighty temptation for the
legal profession is Sabbath break
ing. The trial has been going on for
ten or fifteen days. The evidence is
all in. 1t is Saturday night The
judges gavel falls on the desk, and he
says: ''Crier, adjourn the court until
10 o'clock Monday morning" On Mon
day morning the counselor is to sum
up the case. Thousands of dollars,
yea, the reputation and life of his client
may depend upon the success of his plea.
How will he spend the intervening
Sunday? There is not one lawyer out
of a hundred that can wit hstand the
temptation to break the Lords
day under such circumstances.
And yet if he does he hurts
his own soul. What, my brother. you
can not do before IL o'clock Saturday
night or after II o'clock Sunday
night, God does not want you to do at
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 you be-
ha ;,,r hop al he al
of your case on the sacred day. My
intimate and lamented friend. the late
Judge Nelson, in his interesting
"reminiscences Of Rufus Choate, says
that during the last case that gentle
man tried in New York the court ad-
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 Mr.. Choate in
the old Brick Church, F." listening to the
Rev. Or. Gardiner Spring. l do not
know whether, on the following day,
Rufus Choate won the case or lost il;
but l do know that his Sabbath res.
did not do him any harm. Every lawyer
is entitled 70 one days rest out of
seven. II he surrenders that, he robs
three-God, his own soul, and his
client. Lord Castlereagh and Sir
Thomas Romiliy were the leaders Of
the bar il their day. They both died
Wilberfosce accounts. for
ground that they were unintermittent
in their work, and they never rested on
poor fellow" said WILDER.
force, in regard to Castlereagh. Poor
fellow.it was non-observance of theSab-
bath" Chief Justice Hale says: When
do not properly keep the Lords day,
al the rest of the week is unhappy and
in my worldly employ.
ment." quote to-day from the highest
statute book in the universe: RE
mel ber the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" Thelegal gentleman who breaks
that statute may seem for awhile To be
advantaged; but in the long run, the
men who observe the law of God will
have larger retainers, vaster influence,
greater professional success. than those
men who break the statute. OBJ
servance of the law of God pays not
only spiritually and eternally, but it
pays in hard dollars, or bank bills.
Another powerful temptation II the
legal profession is to artificial ,tiuu-
lus. No one except those who have
addressed audiences knows about the
nervous exhaustion that sometimes
comes afterwards. The temptations
to strong drink approaches the legal
profession at that very point. Through
the ill-ventilated 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. It
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. l am dying
on a borrowed bed, covered with bor-
rowed sheet, in house built by public
charity. Bury me under that tree in
the middle of the field, that 1 may not
be crowded; l always have been crowd
ed"
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 a
village, the one counsel going to Dew
onshire. the other going to London.
They had both been seized upon
by disease which they knew
would be fatal, and they re-
quested 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 opposite 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 Ashburton. My subject to-day
puts you side by side with those men
in your profession who have departed
this life, some of them skeptical and
rebellious, some of them penitent,
childlike and Christian. Those were
wandering stars, for whom is re-
served the blackness of dark
ness fo-sver, while these others
went up from the courtroom