The Grenada sentinel., 1899-04-29

with the words: ''Oyez. oyex. oyex!'
;. announces that all II now ready for 4
bearing aud exclaims: ''God save the
United States Of America. 30 wish We
could In Imagination gather togethes
those who have occupied that high ju.
dicial place In this and other lands, and
they might enter, and after the falling
ofsome mighty gavel had demanded at.
tention we conld look upon them
Marshall, the giant of American 1uris,
prudence. and John Jay. Of whom Daniel
Webster said in commemoration:
when the spotless ermine OF tine in.
dicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched
nothing less spotless than ITSELF" und
Rutledge and Cushing and Ellsworth
and Joseph Storey. called the Walter
Scott of common law, and Sir Matthew
Hale and Lord Eldon and Lord Tenter-
den and Sir James Mcintosh md Mans-
field and the long line OF lord chancei-
lors and the great judges from both
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 I've 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 sane ii Hes
everything it touches! Natural law.
Civil law. Social law. Commercial law.
Common law. Moral law. Ecclesiastical
law. International law. Oh. the dig
nifty, the impressiveness, the power of
law: it is the only thing before which
Jehovah bows, but He bows before
that, although the law is Of His own
making. The law! 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 governed.
We cannot soar SO high, or sink SO deep.
or reach out SO far, or live so long US TO
escapSit. 1t is the throne on which the
Almighty sits. To interpret law, what
profession! What a responsibility!
What an cxecration when the Judge be
Lord Jeffreys! What a benediction If
he be Chancellor Kent!
Have you ever realized how much God
has honored law ip the fact that all up
and down the Bible He makes the Judge
a type of Himself and employs the scene
OF 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-
ple." Book of Psalms: God is Judge
Himself" Book of the Acts: "Judge
of quick end dead" Book of Timothy:
THE Lord is the righteous judge"
Never will it 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 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 I'VE 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, no
condemnation to them who are in Christ
Jesus" Under the crowded galleries OF
cloud on that last day and ulder the
swaying upholstery of burning heav-
ems and while the Alps and HmaIayas
and Mount Washington are falling fiat
on their faces we will be able to under
stand the significance of those Scrip
ture 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 well, all that such O pro.
fession could ask of him, and to have
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 while
the prayers OF his church were being
offered at his bedside. the door OF |
Heaven opening for his entrance US the
door of earth opened for his departure,
the sob of the earthly farewell caught
up into raptures that never die. Yes, he
lived and died in the faith of the old.
fashioned Christian religion.
Young man, want to tell You that
Justice Field believed in the Bible from
lid to lid, book all true either as doc
trine or history, much of it the history
OF events that neither God nor man ap-
proves. Our friend drank the wine of
the holy sacrament and Qtc the bread oi
which IF man eat he shall never hun.
GER He was the up and down. out and
out friend of the church of Christ. II
there had been anything illogical in our
religion he would have secuted it, for he
was logician. II there had been in It
anything unreasonable, he would have
it, because he was good req.
soner. II there had been in II anything
that would not stand research he would
have exploded the fallacy. for his life
was a life of research. Young men OF
Washington, young men of America,
Young men of the round world, re.
ligion that would stand the test of Jus.
tice Fields penetrating and all-ran.
sacking intellectmnst have in It some.
thing worthy of your confidence. ! tell
YOU now TINT Chrisfia nj ~ boc mt onIy |