The Progress., 1897-07-03

law of God will have larger retainers,
vaster influence, greater professional suo-
cess than those men who break the statute.
Observance OF the law OF God pays not
only spiritually and eternally, but 1t pays
in bard dollars or bank bills.
Another powerful temptation Of the 10
gal profession is to artificial stimulus. No
one except those who have addressed audi
ences knows about the nervous exhaustion
that sometimes comes aftefwaYd. The
temptation to strong drink approaches tho
legal profession Mt that very point. Then,
q trial IL coming on. Through the Ill
ventilated courtroom the barristers
health has been depressed for days and for
weeks. He wants to rally his energy. He
Is tempted TO resort to artificial stimulus.
It IL either to get himself up or 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 moInents: This 10 the
end. am dying on a borrowed bsd, Gov
cred With q borrowed sheet, In q house
built ny public charity. Bury me under
that tree in the middle Of the f1eid, that
may not be crowded. I always have been
crowded.
Tho Crest Future.
another powerful temptation OF the le-
gal profession Is TO allow tho absorbing
duties of the profession to shut out
very we'll that you who have 90 often tried
others will after awhile be put on trial
yourselves. Death will serve on you .
writ Of ejectment, and you will he put OF
these earthly premises. On that day all
the affairs OF your life will be presented In
"bili of particulars. - No oertiornri from
q 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 in,peach-
ment Of Lord Lovat; the days when
Charles and Queen Caroline were put
upon trial; the day when Robert Emmett
was arraigned as an insurgent; the day
when Blcnnerhasset 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
nothins compared with the great trial in
which you and shall appear, summoned
before the Judge Of quick and dead.
There Will be- no pleading there 1.-The
stotuteof limitations, " no burning states
evidence" trying to get OF ourselves
while others suffer, no moving for a non
suit" The case will come on inexorably.
and We shall be tried. You. my brother
who have 90 often been advocate for 9th
orr, viii then deed On advocate for Jour
self. Have you selected h!m, the Lord
Chancellor OF the Universei II any man
sin, We have an sdVocate-Jesus Christ
tho Y1&nOeOuS. IL IL uncertain WDen your
oaee will be called on. "Be ye also ready"
Lord Ashburton and Mr.. Wallace were
leading barristers in their day. They died
about tho same time. A few months be-
fore their deoease they happened to b In
the snme hotel In a village the one coun-
vei going 10 Devonshire, the other going
to London. They had both been seized
upon bys disease which they know would
b fatal, 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 to1k over the future.
30 they were carried IN, and lying there
on opposite sofas they talked over their old
contests ut tho bar, and then they talked
Of the future world, upon which they must
soon enter. II wns said 10 have been .
very affecting and solemn interview be-
tween 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