Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-04-29

half, for 1--WE have an advocate with
the Father Jesus Christ, the right
eous. Then the case will be decided in
our clearance, as the Judge announces
There is now, therefore, no condem-
nation to them who are in Christ
Jesus Under the crowded galleries of
cloud on that last day, and under the
swaying upholstery of burning heav-
ems, and while the Alps and Himalayas
and Mount Washington are falling fiat
on their faces, wcwill be able to under
stand the 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.
Services Faithfully Performed.
To have done well, all that such a
profession could ask of him, and to have
made that profession still more honor
able by his brilliant and sublime life,
is enough for national and international.
terrestrial and celestial congra tulntion.
And then to expire beautifully. while
the prayers of his church were being
offered at his bedside. the door of heav-
en- opening for his entrance rs 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, l want to tell yon 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 APP
proves. Our friend drank the wine of
the holy sacrament and ate the bread
of which "if man eat he shall never
hunger" He was the up and down, out
and out friend of the church CT Christ.
If there had been anything illogical in
our religion, he would have secuted it,
for he was logician. If there had been
in it anything unreasonable, he would
have rejected it, because he was great
reasoner. If there had been-in it any
thing that would not stand research, he
would have exploded the fallacy, for
his life was life of research. Young
men of Washington, young men of
America, young men of the round
world, a religion that would stand the
test of Justice Fields penetrating and
all ransacking intellect must have in it
something worthy of your confidence.
tell you now that Christianity has not
only the heart of the world on its side,
but the brain of the world also Ye
who have tried TO represent the religion
of the Bible as something pusillanl-
nous, how do you account for the
Christian fa i of Stephen j. Field,
whole shelves of the law library occu'
pied with his magnificent decisions?
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 the broken heart He
changed churches, but did not change
religions for the church in which he
was born and the church in which he
died alike believe in God the Father Al
mighty, Maker of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, his only begotten
Son, and in the communion of saints,
and in the life everlasting. Amen.
The body of our friend sleeps in tenn
porary resting place. Hearts over
whelmed with grief cannot just now
decide where that sacred and silent
form shall hear the trumpet that wakes
the dead Three places are proposed,
and all appropriate. Some say let it be
in some Gods acre near this capital,
where the pillows of dust are already
embroidered with spring flowers How
appropriate some cemetery near this
city, which was SO long his residence,
and so near the place where he sat in
Judgment, holding evenly the balances
that God put in his hand 1t would be
we'll for us sometimes to go out and
read his epitaph and recall his virtues.
Some say let him rest on the Pacific
slope, where he achieved so much for
the new state and fitted himself for so
great emineDce, and it would be beau
tiful to let the whole nation bow at his
passing catafalque, funeral reaching
from ocean to ocean and 5000 miles
long, the Alleghanics and the Rockies
and the Sierra Nevadas cchoing the
thunders of the rail train taking him to
his last earthly home.
But equally as appropriate is another
proposal that he be put to rest amid the
graves of father and mother and re-
nuwned brothers and the New England
friends OF the family in the cemetery
at Stockbridge, Mass. After life of
toll and struggle lie needs some quiet
place Old men who were his schoolfel-
lows would lean heavily upon the staff
and watch as he was brought through
the gates CT the riace in which they
also will soon lie down to rest. Far
away from the iostle and contention
and rush and activities of the great
cities he would sleep the calm sleep OF
the just. The hyacinths and Gala lilies
of the spring planted there would typify
the resurrection, and the SHOWS of win
ter banked there wonld suggest the
robes made white in the blood Of the
Lamb.
Goodby. MY dear CID friend of more
than 80 years. Your words OF personal
encouragement and good cheer give
me the rigl,, to ofTcr words of commem-
grafton. But I nrst leave TO others his
place of burial This city lnight choose
Rock Creek and Oak Eill and San Fran
cisco might choose Lone Mountain; yet
if had my choice I would say let it be
tile cemetery at stockhridge. Ee would
be at hcme there and it would be
family reunited, bat whatever be the
place. let NE sprinkle over the newly
made grave this handful of heather
from the Scotch highlands, in the hymn
which the people of that land OF An
drew Melville and Jchn Knox are apt
to sing on their way to the grave of
some one greatly beloved:
Neighbour accept our parting song.
The road is short, the rest is long.
The Lord brought here, the Lord takes hence;
This is no house Of perrIuncEce.
On bread of mirth and bread of tears