Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-07-14

they never rested on sunday. Poor fei-
lowls said Wilberforee in regard to Cas-
| tlereach; poor fellow. it was mon
observance Of the Sabbath" Chief
properly keep the Lords day, all the
rest of the week is unhappy and unsuccess-
| ful in my worldly employment" I 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 q 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
II God pays not only spiritually and
'ternally, but it pays in hard dollars or
lank bills.
Another powerful temptation of the legal
'rofession is to artificial stimulus. No one
except those who have addressed audiences
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
IL the American bar, ruined in reputation
and ruined In estate, said in his last mo-
nents: This is the end. l am dying on a
borrowed bed, covered with a borrowed
sheet, in house built by public charity.
Bury me under that tree in the middle Of
the field, that L may not be crowded; / al
ways have been crowded"
Another powerful temptation of the legal
profession u 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
will 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 a "bill of particulars" No
certiOrari from a higher court for this is
the highest court. The day when Lord Ex-
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
rial; the day when Robert Emmet was ar
aligned as an insurgent the day when
3lennerhasset was brought into the court
Dom because he had tried to overthrow the
United states Government, and all the other
great trials of the world are nothing COM
Jared 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 'the statute of limitations" no
turning states evidence" trying to get
IN ourselves while others suffer; no "mov-
ny IoI q he chSt Will come on
nexorably, and we shall be tried. You,
ny brother, who have so often been advo-
:ate for others, will then need an advocate
or yourself. Have you selected Him. the
-ord Chancellor of the Universep II any
nan sin, We have an advocate, Jesus Christ
he righteous. 1t Is uncertain when your
Ease will be called on. BE We also ready"
Lord Ashburton and Mr.. Wallace were
eading barrsters in their day. They died
tbout the same time. few months before
heir decease they happened to be in the
same hotel in a village, the one counsel
going to Devonshire, the other going to
London They had both been seized unon
by a 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
:alked of the future world, upon which
:hey must soon enter. 1t was said to have
been very affecting and solemn interview
between MIR. 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 skep-
tical and rebellious, some of them penitent
chiidlike 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
Christ the advocate these got glorious
acquittal. In the other case it was hope
less lawsuit-an unpardoned sinner versus
the Lord God Almighty. Oh, what disas-
trous litigation! Behold, he comesl The
Judge, the Judge, the clouds of heaven.
the Judicial ermine, the great white throne,
the judicial bench, the archangels voice
that shall wake the dead, the crier Come,
ye blessed; depart, ye cursedl' scquittal
Ar hA dan An the.
lead, small and great, stand before God,
and the books were opened"