The Progress., 1897-07-03

many people an absurd and wicked prejn-
dice against 1t. So long ago as IN the
time OF Oliver Cromwell 1t was decfded
that lawyers might not enter the parha-
ment house as members, and they were
called "sons Of Zeruiah. The lesrhea
DR.. johnson wrote an epitaph for one OF
them in these words:
God works wonders now and then
Here lies a lawyer, an honest man.
Two hundred years ago treatise was
issued with the title, ''Doomsday APP
nroachinc With Thunder and Lightning
For Lawyers" A prominent clergyman
OF tho last century wrote IN regard 10 thae
profession these words: There Is soc'e'S
Of men among US bred up from thelr you'h
In tho art of proving, according as the!
are paid by words multiplied for Inc pu.
nose that white is black and black -
white For example, II my neignoof mas
a mind to my COW, he hires a lawyer 10
prove that he ought to have my COW from
me must hire another lawyer TO deleho
INV ri .ht it being against all rules OF N"
that II man should speak for himself. IN
pleading they do not dwell upon the mefi's
of the cause, but upon circumstances lo1-
.iyn thereto. For instance, they do not
take the shortest method TO know what
title INV ;Id yers;,ry has to my COW, oot
whether the cow be red or black, her horns
long or short, or the like After that they
nd iourn the cause from time to time and In
| 20 years they come TO An Issue. 1his 50
cicty likewise has q peculiar can't or 1argon
of their own, In which all their laws are
written, and these they take especial care
| TO multiply, whereby they have 90 con.
| founded truth and falsehood that 1t Will
| take IL years to decide whether the neio
left to me by my ancestors for six genera
tons belongs to me or to one Soo h''es
| off,"
cay these things to show you that there
has been prejudice going on down
AGAINST that profession from generation to
generation account for 1t on the ground
that they compel men to pay debts that
} they do not want to pay, and that they ar
,aign criminals who want to escape the
consequences Of their crime. and as long Al
| that IL SO, and 1t always Will be co. just SC
long there will be classes Of men who vii
Affect at any rate to despise the legal pro
Aession know not how It Is In othel
countries but have had long and wide
acquaintance with men Of that profession
Il have found them In all my parishes
I tarried In one Of their offices for thre
| years where there came real estate law
yers insurance lawyers, criminal lawyers
j. marine lawyers-and I have yet to IND
3 class Of men more genial or more straight
forward. There are In that occupation, n
!, | In ALI our occupations, men utterly obno1
| ious to God and man. But II l were o.
!, trial for my integrity or my life, and
u wanted even handed justice administers
II to me, I would rather have my case sur
70 mitted to a jury of 12 lawyers than to
It Jury OF 10 clergymen. The legal profe'
sion, l believe has less violence OF pref!
4 dice than Is to be found In the sacred CAV
RI ing
There Is, however, no man who hs
more temptations or graver resronsibh
ties than the barrister, and he who q
| ~ho dyyt(s of
o. ton with only earthly resources Is NAL
NJ ing a very great mistake. Witness II
OK scores of men who have In that professio
:, made eternal shipwreck. Witness the me
IA who, with the law Of the land und
'e their arm, have violated every statute
= = the eternal God. Witness the men wi
~ have argued placidly before earthly trib
- nails, who shall shiver in dismay befo
y, the Judge of quick and dead "itne
% Lord Thurlow, announcing his loyalty
y, earthly government in the sentence, ~
=. forget my earthly sovereign, may God &c