The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-08-05

Venlng sunday ne saw Mr.. CnOaLe ID
the old Brick Church., listening to the
Rev. DR.. Gardiner Spring. | do not
know whether, on the folio wing day,
Rufus Choate won the case or lost it;
| but | do know that his Sabbath rest
| did not do him any harm. Every lawyer
! is entitled to one days rest out of
seven. If 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. Wherefore accounts for
their alteration of intellect on the
ground that they were intermittent
In their work, and they never rested on
Sunday. "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
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
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 of the
legal profession is to artificial stimu-
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 enetgy. He is tempt
ed to resort to artificial stimulus. 1t
is either to get himself ap, 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. I am dying
on 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; | 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
know very we'll that you who have so
often tried others, will after awhile be
put on trial yourselves. Death will
serve on you writ of ejectment and
you will be put off these earthly prem
ises. On that day, all the affairs of
your life will be presented in a
bill of particulars" No certiora-
ri from higher court, for
this is the highest court. The
day when Lord Exeter was tried for
high treason; the day when the house
of commons moved for the impeach-
ment of Lord Lovat; the days when
Charles |. and Queen Caroline We're put
upon trial; the day when Robert En-
met was arraigned as an insurgent;
the day when Blennerhasse. was
brought into the courtroom be-
cause he had tried to over
throw the United States govern
ment, and all the other great trials
of the world are nothing compared
with the great trial in which you an d |
shall appear, summoned before the
Judge of quick and dead. There will
be no pleading there the statute Of
limitation;" no turning states evil
dence,' trying to get off ourselves,
while Others suffer; no moving for
a nonsuit.' The case will come on
inexorably, and we shall be tried. You,
my brother, who have so often been
advocate for others, will then need an
Advocate for yourself. Have you Sc
lected Him? The Lord Chancellor of
, the Universe. If any man SIM we have
an Advocate-Jesus Christ, the right
eous. 1t is uncertain when your case
will! be called on. "Be also ready"
Lord Ashburton and Mr.. Wallace
We're leading barrlsters in their day.
They died about the same time. A
few months before their decease they
happened to be in the same hotel in q
village, the one counsel going to Dew
ohohlie' VIC oIneT BOluB 10 LOnuOn.
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 a 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 forever, while these others
went up from the courtroom