Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-07-03
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that they were unintcrin;ttent in their
work, and tley nayer rcs.cd on Sunday.
"Poor fel!9w!." said N'ilhcrforce i'll re-
gard 70 Gastloleagh; "pocr fellow, it
was noMot3ergance OF the Sabbath"
Chief Justice Ealc says, When l do
not properly keep the Lords day, all
the rest Of the week is unhappy and un-
successful in my worldly employment. +"
[ quote today from the highest statute
book in tic universe, Remember the
Sabbath day 10 keepit holy" The legal
gentleman who breaks that statute may
seem for awhile to lie adyantaged, but
in the long run the men who observe
this law CT God will have larger re-
tainers, vaster influence, greater profess
SIGNAL success than those men who
break the statute. Observance of the
law OF God pays not only spiritually
and etcrnally, but it pays in hard dol
lars Or bank bills.
Another powerful temptation of tho
legal profession is to artificial stimulus.
No enc except those who have addressed
audiences knows about the nervous ex-
haustion that sometimes comes after
ward. The temptation to strong drink
approaches the legal profession at that
very point. Then trial is coming on.
Through the i'll ventilated courtroom
the barristers health has been depressed
for days and for weeks. He wants to
rally his energy. He is tempted to re-
sort to artificial stimulus. It is either
to get himself up OF 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 moments: "This is the end.
I am dying OH borrowed bed, covered
with a borrowed sheet, in house built
BIZ public charity. Bury me under that
tree in the middle Of the field, that !
may not be crowded; 1 always have
been crowded. -
The Grca. Future.
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 ejcctment, and you will
be put off these earthly premises. On
that day all the affairs of your life will
be presented in u chill Of particulars. "
No certiorari 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 impeachment of Lord
Lovat; the days when Charles [ and
Queen Caroline were put upon trial;
the day when Robert Emmett was az
raigned as an insurgent; the day when
Blennerhasset was brought into tho
courtroom because he had tried TO over
throw the United States government,
and all tie other great trials of the
world are nothing compared with tho
great trial in which you and shall ap-
pear summoned before the Judge OF
quick and dead. There will be 10 plead
ing there "the statute Of limitations, "
no turning states evidence" trying
to get off ourselves while others suffer;
no moving for 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 selected him, the Lord Chan
cellor Of the Universe? If any man sin,
we have an advocate, Jesus Christ tho
righteous. 1t is uncertain when your
case will be called on. 'Be ye also
ready"
Lord Ashburton and Mr. Wallace were
leading barrisrcrs ill their day. They
died about the same time. A few months
before their deccazo they happened TO
be in tic same hctel in 4 village tho
one counsel eQiag to Deyonshire, tho
other going to Lo::;.9n. They had both
been seized upon by 4 disease which
they knew Torld be fatal, and they re-
qucstcd that they he carried into tho
same room and laid down on sofas, side
by side, that they might talk over cid
times and tall; over tire future. So they
were carried in, ard, lying there Oh OPP
posite sofas, they talked over their old
contests at the bar, and then they
talked of the future world, upon which
they must socn enter. 1t was said tc
have been very affecting and solemn
interview between III Wallace and
Lord As!.burton. Ny subject today puts
you side By side with those men in your
profession who haze departed this life,
somo CT them skeptical and rehellious,
some Of them peHitent, childlike and
Christian. Those were wandering 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 tie other case it was a
hopeless lawsuit-an unpardoned sinner
versus tie Lord God Almighty. Oh,
what disastrous litigation! Behold, ho
comes! The Judge, the Judge, the clouds
Of heaven, the judicial ermine, tho
great white throne, the judicial bench,
the archangel's voice that shall wake
the dead, the crier, Come, ye blessed;
depart ye cursedl" the acquittal OF tho
condemnation. "And l saw the dead,
small and great, stand before God, and
the books were opened.
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a great many proofs now more or
less familiar 10 most people show quito
clearly that the decay Of animal Or veg