Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1899-04-26


with the words: Oyer. Oyer. oyez,"
announces that all is now ready for a
hearing and exclaims: God save the
United States OF America so wish we
could in Imagination gather together
those who have occupied that high in.
dical place in this and other lands. and
they might enter, and after the falling
of some mighty gayel had demanded at
tsntion 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 ermine of the IN.
dicial robe fell on John jay, il touched
nothing less spotless than itself" and
Rutlcdge ard Cushing and Ellsworth
and Joseph Storey. called the Walter
Scott Of common law. and Sir Matthew
Hale and Lord Eldon and Lord Teutcr-
den and Sir James Mcintosh and Mans.
field and the long line OF lord chancel-
Tors 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 be called on, after the asscmbi
I
United States Of America" God save
! Great Britain" God save the nations"
All, how the law honors and sancdiies
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, II is tho only thing before which
Jehovah bows, but lie bows before
! that, although the law is of His OWE
making. The law. by il worlds swing.
BY il the fate Of centuries is decided
By II all the affairs of time and all the
cycles of eternity viii be governed
We cannot soar so high, or sink so deep.
or reach out so far. or live so long as TO
escape ii. IL is the throne on which the
Almighty sits. To interpret law. what
profession! What responsibility!
What an cXecration when the Judge be
a Lord Jeffreys! What benediction il
he he a Chancellor Kent,
Have you ever realized how much God
has hor ored law in the fact that all up
| and down the Bible He makes the Judge
type of Himself and employs the scene
of n 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: ICED is iudr.
Himself" Book of the Acts: Judge
of quick and 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 ussize-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 w.
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 dc.
cidcd 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 uAder the
swaying upholstery Of burning heay.
ems and while the Alps and Himalayas
ana Mount Washington are falling fla,
on their faces we will be able to under.
stand the significance of those Scrip,
ture passages which speak of God az
Judge and employ the courtroom OF
earth as typical of the scene when all
nations shall be brought into tribunal.
10 have done well, all that such pro.
fession could ask of him. and to have
| made that profession still more honor.