The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-07-02

pnok in the universe, "Remem Der the
Sabbath d " to keep it holy" The legal
gentleman who breaks that statute may
seem for awhile to be advantaged, but
in the long yGn the men who observe
this law of God will have larger re-
tainers. vaster influence, greater profess
sional success than those men who
break the statute. ObseI vance of the
law of God pays lot only spiritually
and eternally, but j, rays in hard dol
lars or bank bills
Another powerful temptation OF the
legal profession is to artificial stimulus.
No one 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 ba1rister's health has been depressed
for DAYS and for weeks. He wants to
rally his energy He is tempted to re-
sort to artificial stimulus. 1t is either
to get himself up or let himself down
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The flower of the American bar, ruined
in reputation and ruined in estate, said
in his last moments: "This is the end.
l am dying on borrowed bed, covered
with 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; 1 always have
been crowded.
The Great 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 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 "bill 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 l and
Queen Caroline were put upon trial;
the day when Robert Emmett was ar
raigned as an insurgent; the day when
Blennerhasset was brought into the
courtroom because he had tried to over
throw the United States government,
and all the other great trials of the
world are nothing compared with the
great trial in which you and l shall ap-
pear, 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 off ourselves while others suffer;
no knowing for ionsuit." 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 the
righteous. 1t 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 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 OPP
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 a very affecting and solemn
interview between Mr.. Wallace and
Lord Ashburton. My subject today 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 reserved the blackness of
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 a
hopeless lawsuit-an unpardoned sinner
versus the Lord God Almighty. Oh,
what disastrous litigationl Behold, he
comesl The Judge, the Judge, the clouds
of heaven, the judicial ermine, the
great white. throne, the judicial bench,
the archangel's voice that shall wake
the dead, the crier, "Come, ye blessed;
depart we cursed!" the acquittal or the
"And l saw the dead,
small and great, stand before God, and
the books were opened.
The Decay of Animal Matter.