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4 GREAT MAN FALLEN
DR.. TALMAGE EULOGlZES THE LATE
JUSTICE FIELD.

OF Our Times, Whose Life Is worthy
of Emulation, Says the Pulpit Ora
tor.
Copyright. Louis Klopsch. 1921
WASHINGTON. April 23.-One of the
most notable characters Of our time is
the subject Of DR.. Talmages discourse
and the lessons drawn are inspiring;
text, II Samuel iii. 9S, Know We not
that there is prince and great man
fallen this day in Israeli"
Here is a plumed catafalque. followed
by King David and a funeral Grafton
which he delivers at the tomb. Con-
cerning Abner, the great David weeps
ont the text More appropriately than
when originally uttered we may now
utter this resounding lamentation,
know We not that there is prince and
a great man fallen this day in Israeli
1t was 30 minutes after 6. the exact
hour Of sunset of the Sabbath day, and
while the evening lights were being
kindled, that the soul Of Stephen j
Field. the lawyer. the judge. the pa
triot. the statesman, the Christian,
ascended. II was sundown in the home
yonder Capitol hill, as it was sun
Gown on all the surrounding hills, but
in both cases the sunset to be followed
by glorious sunrise. Hear the Easter
anthems still lingering in the air, "The
trumpet shall sound. and the dead shall
rise
Our departed friend came forth boy
from a minister's home in New Eng
land He knolt with father and mother
at morning and evening prayer, learned
from maternal lips lessons of piety
which lasted him and controlled him
amid all the varied and exciting scenes
Of lifetime and helped him to die in
peace an octogenarian. Blot out from
American history the names Of those
ministers sons who have done honor to
iudicial bench and commercial circle and
national legislature and presidential
chair. and you would obliterate many
Of the grandest chapters of that history
1t is no small advantage to have started
from a home where God is honored and
the subject Of worlds emancipation
from sin and sorrow is under constant
discussion. The Ten Commandments,
which are the foundation OF all good
law-Roman law. German law, Eng
lish law. American law-are the best
foundation upon which to build charac
ter. and those which the boy. Stephen
J Field. so often heard in the parson
age Al Stocktridge were his guidance
when half century after. as a gowned
Justice Of the supreme court OF the
United States he unrolled his opinions
/ Bibles. hymn books catechisms. family
prayers, atmosphere sanctitied, are good
surroundings for boys and girls to start
/ from. and if our laxer ideas Of religion
and Sabbath days and home training
produce as splendid men and women as
the much derided Puritanic Sabbath
and Puritanc teachings have produced.
il will be matter of congratulation
and thanksgiving
Do not pass by the fact that | have
not yet seen emphasized that Stephen
J. Field was a minister's son. Notwlth-
standing that there are conspicuous ex-
ceptions TO the rule-and the exceptions
have built up stereotyped defamation
on the subjects statistics plain and un-
deniable prove that larger proportion
Of ministers sons turn out well than
are to be found in any other genealogic-
al table. Let all the parsonages OF all
denominations Of Christians where chill
dren are growing up take the consola'
tion. See the star Of hope pointing
down to that manger
Member of Royal Family.
Notice also that our departed friend
was a member of a royal family. There
were no crowns or scepters or throne;
in that ancestral line, but the family
of the Fields, like the family OF the
New York Primes, like the family ol
the Princeton Alexanders, like score
of families that might mention, If II
were best to mention them, were "th'
children of the king" and had put OIL
them honors brighter than crowns and
welded influence longer and wider thar
scepters That family of Fields traces
. an honorable lineage back 500 years u
Huberrus de la Field, coadjutor OF VII
liam the Conqueror. Let us thank Coo
for such families. generation after gen
Grafton on the side Of that which i
right and good. Four sons of that coun
try mnister. known the world over TO
extraordinary usefulness in thei
spheres, legal. commercial. literary ant
> theological and daughter, the mothe
of one of the associate justices OF tn
supreme court Such families counter
3 balance for good those families al
wrong from generation to generation
families that stand for wealth, unright
eously got and stingily kept or wicked
" sauandered; families that stand 10
{ fraud or impurity or malevolence; fam
=, ily names that Immediately come I
every mind. though through sense o
, propriety they do not come to the Up
+ The name of Field will survive centu
ries and be a synonym for religion, 10
great Jurisprudence. for able Christia
Journalism. as the names OF the Pha
\ raohs and the Cesars stand for cruelt
i and oppression and vice
While parents cannot aspire to hav
such conspicuous households as the on
s the name Of whose son we now celt
E brate, all parents may by fidelity !
prayer and holy example have thei
sons and daughters become kings an
Queena- unto God, to reign forever an