The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-24
DA1LY nErUB11cAx MONDAY,

Is decided. By it.all the affairs Of time
and all the cycles Of eternity will be gov.
erned. We cannot Boar 10 high, or sink @
deep, or reach out 10 far, or live 90 long
as to escape II. II Is the throne on which
the Almighty sits. To interpret law,
what profession What responsibility
What an execration when the judge be a
Lord Jeflreysi What benediction II he
be Chancellor Kent
In passing let me say that for this chief
tribunal OF our country congress should
soon provide better place. Let some Of
rivers which are nothing bot dry creeks
and for hsrbors which will never have any
shipping and for monuments to some peo-
pie whom 1t is not at all important for
us to remember be voted for the erection
of building worthy of our United States
supremepourt. John Ruskin, in "Stones
Of Venice, calls attention to the pleasing
fact that In the year S13 the doge Of Venice
devoted himself to putting up two great
buildings-St. Marks, for the worship Of
God, and palace for tho administration
Of justice to man. In its appreciation of
what Is best let not 1899. DO behind s18.
With such granite In our quarries and
| such architects capable of drafting sublime
structure and such magnificent sites on
which to build let not another year pass
before we hear the trowel ring on the Coz
nerstone Of temple TO DO occupied by the
highest court Of the land.
Justice VIII Plead.
Have you ever realized how much God
has honored law in the fact that all up
and down the Bible no makes the Judge
type Of himself and employs the scene Of q
courtroom to set forth tho grandeurs Of
the great Judgment days Book of Gen.
esis, "shali not the Judge Of all the earth
do right" Book Of Deuteronomy, 1.-THE
Psalms, Good is Judge himself" Book
Of the Acts, Judge Of quick and dead"
Book Of Timothy, ",The, Lord the, right
eous Judge" Never will 1t be understood
how God honors Judges and courtrooms
until the thunderbolt Of the last day shall
pound the opening Of the great assize-
the day of trial, the day of clearance, the
day Of doom, the day OF Judgment. The
law of the Uase on that occasion will DO
read, and the Indictment Of ten counts,
which arc the Ten Commandments.
Justice will plead the case against us, but
our glorious advocate will plead in our
behalf, for 1--WE have an advocate with the
a 'Father-Jesus Christ, the righteous. :,
Then the case will be decided In our clear =
anoe, as the Judge announces, "There is
now, therefore, no condemnation to them
who are in Christ Jesus" Under the
crowded galleries Of cloud on that last
day and under the swaying upholstery Of
q burning heavens and while the Alps
and Himalayas and Mount Washington
ara falling fiat ON their faces we will be
able to understand tho significance of
those Scripture passages which speak Of
God as Judge and employ the courtroom
Of earth as typical of the scene when all
nations shall be brought into tribunal.
To have done we'll, all that such pro-
fession could ask Of him, and to have
made that profession still more honorable
by his brilliant and sublime life, is enough
for national and international, terrestrial
and coles .ial congratulation. And then
to expire beautifully while the prayers of
his church were being offered at his bed
side, the door Of heaven opening for his
entrance as tho door Of earth opened for
his departure, the sob Of tho earthly fare
well caught up into raptures that never
die. Yes, he lived and died in the faith
Of the old fashioned Christian religion.
Believed In the Bible.
Young man, want to tell you that JUS
lice Field believed in the Bible from lid to
I'D a book all true either as doctrine or
history, much Of it tho history Of events
that neither God nor man approves. Our
friend drank the wine Of the holy sacra.
ment and ate tho bread of which "if a
man eat he shall never hunger" He was
the church Of Christ. II there had been
anything illogical in our religion, no
would have secuted 1t, for he WAS a logI-
cian. II there had besn in IL anything
unreasonable, no would have rejected It, |
because he was a great reasoner. If there
hsd been in 1t anything that would not
stand research, he would have. exploded
the fallacy, for his life was q life Of 70.
search. Young men of Washington, young
men Of America, young men of the round
world, religion that would stand the test
of Justice Field penetrating and all ran!
sacking intellect must have in 1t sonie-
thing worthy Of your confidence. tell
you now that Christianity has; not only
the heart Of the world on itsyside, but tho
brain of the world also. Ye who have
tried to represent the religion of the Bible
as something pusillanimsns, how do you
account for the Christian faith of Stephen
]. Field, whole shelves of the law library
occupied with his magnificent decisions9
And now may the God Of all comfort
speak to the bereft especially to her who
was the queen of his life, from the day
when as stranger he was shown to her
pew in the Episcopal church, to this time
of tho broken heart Ho changed churches,
but did not change religions, for tho
church in which he was born and the
church in which he died alike believe in
God the Father Almighty, Maker of heay.
en- and earth and in Jesus Christ his only
begotten Son, and in the communion OF
saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen.
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