The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-05-20


announces that all is now ready for
hearing and exclaims: God save the
United States of America" so wish we
could in imagination gather together
those who have occupied that high jul
dicial place in this and other lands, and
they might enter, and after the falling
of some mighty gavel had demanded at
tention we could look upon them
Marshall, the giant of American juris-
prudence, and John Jay, of whom Daniel
Webster said in commemoration:
when the spotless ermine of the ju-
dicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched
nothing less spotless than ITSELF" and
Rutledge and Gushing 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 and Mans
field and the long line of lord chancel-
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 be called on, after the assembled
nations had eiaculated: God save the
United States of America" God save
Great Britain" "God save the nations"
All, how the law honors and sanc,ities
everything it TOUGHEST 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! 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 it 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 as to
escape it. 1t is the throne on which the
Almighty sits. TO interpret law. what
a profession! What responsibility!
What an execration when the judge be
Lord Jeffreys! What benediction if
he be Chancellor Kent!
Have you ever realized how much God
has honored law in the fact that all up
and down the Bible He makes the judge
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 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 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 1--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, ne
condemnation to them who are in Chris,
Jesus" Under the crowded galleries o.
cloud on that last day and ulder the
swaying upholstery of burning heav
ems and while the Alps and Himalaya,
and 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 as
Judge and employ the courtroom o.
earth as typical of the scene when al
nations shall be brought into tribunal
To have done well, 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 whit
the prayers of his church were bein,
offered at his bedside, the door o
Heaven opening for his entrance as th
door of earth opened for his departure
the sob of the earthly farewell caugh
up into raptures that never die. Yes, h.
lived and died in the faith of the old
fashioned Christian religion.
Young man, l want to tell you tina
Justice Field believed in the Bible fror
lid to lid, book all true either as doc
trine or history, much of it the histor
of events that neither God nor man aI
proves. Our friend drank the wine o
the holy sacrament and ate the bread q
which "if man eat he shall never hun
ger" He was the up and down, out an
out friend of the church of Christ. ]
there had been anything illogical in on
religion he would have secuted it, for b
was logician. If there had been in
anything unreasonable, he would hav
rejected it, because he was a good res
soner. If there had been in it anythin
that would not stand research he woul
have exploded the fallacy, for his Lii
was life of research. Young men {
Washington, young men of Americ,
young men of the round world. r,
ligion that would stand the test of Jul