Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-07-02


ing duties OF the profession to shut o,.t
thoughts of TIE great future. You know
very well that you who have so often
tried others will after awhile be put on
trial yourselves. Death will aaryo on
you a writ of ejectment, and you will
be pat off these earthly premises. On
that day all the affairs Of your life will
lie presented in bill Of particulars. F"
No certiorari from a higher Genre, for
this is the highest court. The day wheL
. Lord Exeter wac tried for high treason;
tie day when the house Of commons
moved for the impeachment Ct 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 tho
courtroom because he had tried 10 over
throw the United States government,
and all tie other great trials Of the
world are nothing compared with the
great trial in " hich you and / shall ap-
near. summoned before the Judge Of
ouick and dead. There will be no plead
ing there "the statute Of limitations, !"
no turning states evidence" trying
10 get off ourselves while others suffer (;
no knowing 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 Won 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 a village, the
one counsel going TO DeyonshiTe, 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 tho
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 Oh op-
pusite 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 Ashburtm. Ny subject today puts
vou side by side with those men in your
profession who have departed this life,
some of them skeptical and rebcllious,
some Of them penitent, chiidlike and
Christian. Those were wandering stars
for whom is reserved the blacknoss OF
darkness forever, while these others
went up from the courtroom Of earth to
the throne Of eternal dominion. Though
Christ the advocate these got glorious
acuuittal, In the other case it was a
homeless laWsuit-an unpaTdoncd 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
condemnation. And | saw the dead,
small and great, stand before God, and
the books were opened.