Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1899-06-02

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tators rise to greet them, and the officer
with the words; "Oye2, oye2, oyez!'
announces that all is now ready for
hearing and cXclaims; God save the
United States of America" so wish we
could in Imagination gather together
those who have occupied that high iu-
dicial place in this and other lands, and
they might enter, and after the falling
of some mighty gavel had demanded ut.
tention we could look upon them
Marshall, the giant of American iuris'
prudence, and John Jay, of whom Daniel
Webster said in commemoration:
when the spotless erminc OF the ju.
dicial robe fell on John Jay, il touched
nothing less spotless than itself" and
Rutledge and Cushing and Ellsworth
and Joseph Storey, called the Walter
Scott of common law, and Sir Matthew
Hale and Lord Eldon and Lord Tenier.
den and Sir James Mcintosh and Mans
field and the long line Of lord chancel.
lors and the great judges from Doth
sides of the sea, and after they had
taken their places in our quickened
Imagination and distinguished cases of
centuries which they decided might
again be called on, after the assembled
nations had calculated; "God save the
United States of America" God save
Great Britain" God save the nations"
All, how the law honors and sanc,ilies
everything it touches! Natural law,
Civil law. Social law. Commercial law
Common law. Moral law. Ecclesiastical
law. International law. Oh, the dig.
nifty, the imprcssiveness, the power of
law! 1t is the only thing before which
! Jehovah bows, but He bows before
that, although the law is of His own
making. The law! BY worlds swing
BY it the fate of centuries is decided
| BY it all the affairs of time and all the
cycles OF eternity will be governsd
We cannot soar so high, or sink so deep
or reach out so far, or live so long MS to
escape ii. 1t is the throne on which the
Almighty sits. TO interpret law, what
n professlonl What a responsibility
What an cxecration when the Judge be
q Lord Jeffreys! What benediction il
he be Chancellor Kent.
Have you ever realized how much God
has honored law in the fact that all up
and down the Bible lie makes the judge
a type of Himself and employs the scene
of u courtroom to set forth the grand
eurs of the great judgment day? Book
OF Genesis: "Shall not the judge of all
the earth do right?' Book of Deuter-
onomy: "The Lord shall judge His peo-
pie" Book of Psalms: God is judge
Himself" Book of the Acts: Judge
of quick and dead" Book of Timothy:
"The Lord is the righteous judge"
Never will it he 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 case on that occasion will be
read, and the indictment of ten counts
which are the Ten Commandments.
Justice will plead the case against us,
but our glorious advocate will plead in
our behalf, for "we have an advocate
with the Father-Jesus Christ, the
righteous" Then the case Will be de.
cided in our clearance, as the Judge an
nounces: There is now, therefore, nc
condemnation to them who are in Chris,
Jesus" Under the crowded galleries Of
cloud on that last day and uhder The
swaying upholstery of burning heav
ems and while the Alps and Himalaya:
and Mount Washington are falling tlat
on their faces we will be able to under
stand the significance of those Scrip
ture passages which speak of God a:
Judge and employ the courtroom o
earth as typical of the scene when al
nations shall be brought into tribunal
To have done we'll, all that such pro
fession could ask of him, and to hav,
made that profession still more honor
able by his brilliant and sublime life, il
enough for national and international
terrestrial and celestial congratulation
And then to expire beautifully Will
the prayers Of his church were bein,
offered at his bedside, the door o
Heaven opening for his entrance as III
door of earth opened for his departure
the sob of the earthly farewell caugh
up into rapturcs that never die. Yes, HI
lived and died ip the faith of the old
| faghiAao1
Young man, ] want to tell you tha
Justice Field believed in the Bible iron
lid TO lid, book all true either as doc
trne or history, much Of it the histor
Of events that neither God nor man ap
proves. Our friend drank the wine o
the holy sacrament and ate the bread q
which "if n man eat he shall never hun
ger" He was the up and down, ont ant
out friend of the church of Christ. !
there had been anything illogical in on
religion he would have secuted it, for h
was logician. If there had been in
anything unreasonable, he would hav
rejected it, because he was good reG
soner. If there had been in it anythin
that would not stand research he woul
have exploded the fallacy, for his lif
was a life of research. Young men @
Washington, young men Of Americt
young men of the round world, a rc
ligion that would stand the test of Jus
tice Fields penetrating and al-rar
sacking intellect must have in it some
thing worthy of your confidence. | te
you now that Christianity has not onl
the heart of the world on its side, br
the brain of the world also. Yc wh
have tried TO represent the religion T
: the Bible as something pusillapimou
c how do you account for the Christia
e faith of Stephen j. Field, whole shevc
! of the law library occupied with hi
! magnificent decisions?
! And now may the God Of all comfol
!, speak to the bereft, especially to he
= who was the queen Of his life, from III
s day when as stranger lie was show