The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1899-06-16

Win the WOfuS. 'ONeI. ONeZ. ONeZi ~
announces that all is now ready for n
hearing and eXclaims: 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 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 iu-
dicial robe fell on John Jay, it 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 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 calculated: "God save the
United States of America" God save
Great Britain" God save the nations"
Al, how the law honors and sanctifes
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 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 il 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
professionl What a responsibilityl
What an cXecration when the Judge be
Lord Jeffreysl What benedictioni if
he be a 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
a type of Himself and employs the scene
of a courtroom to set forth the grand
eurs of the great judgment day? Book |
of Genesis: "ShaH 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 il 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, no
condemnation 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 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 pro-
fession 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 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 as the !
door Of earth opened for his departure. 6
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, 1 want to tell you that
Justice Field believed in the Bible from :
id to lid, book all true either as doc {
rine or history, much Of it the history a
If events that neither God nor man ap- b
proves. Our friend drank the wine Of Q
he holy sacrament and ate the bread of
which "if a man eat he shall never hun !
rer." He was the up and down, out and =
mt friend of the church of Christ. If =
here had been anything illogical in our
eligion he would have secuted it, for he -
vas a logician. If there had been in il
nything unreasonable, he would have o
elected it, because hs was a good rea-
Oner. If there had been in il anything 81
hat would not stand research he would s.
ave exploded the fallacy, for his life E
vas a life of research. Young men Of D
young men of America, II
oung men of the round world, a re- sl
gion that would stand the test of JUS
Ice Fields penetrating and all-ran-
lcking intellect must have in it some
hing worthy of your confidence. / tell y
on now that Christianity has not only u
ne heart of the world on its side, but
ne brain of the world also. Ye who m
ave tried to represent the religion of ri
ne Bible as something pusIlanimous, tc
ow do you account for the Christian Is
nth of Stephen J. Field, whole shelves