The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1899-04-28
rociate justices are about to enter, and

| announces that all is now ready Tor 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 iu-
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 iuris-
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 EIdon 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"
All, 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 impressiyeness, 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 a responsibility!
What an execration when the judge be
Lord Jeffreys! What benediction 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:
1.-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,
hut our glorious advocate will plead in
our behalf, for 1--WE have an advocate
with the Father-Jesus Christ, the
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 a 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
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earth as typical of the scene when all
nations shall be brought into tribunal.
To have done well, all that such a pro-
fession could ask of him, and to have |
made that profession still more honor
able by his brilliant and sublime life, is |
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,
the sob of the earthly farewell caught
up into raptures that never die. Yes, he
lived and died in the faith of the old
Christian religion.
IOuhS lldl, WANT W Tell you JndL
Justice Field believed in the Bible from
id to lid, a book all true either as doc
,rine or history, much of it the history
If events that neither God nor man APP
proves. Our friend drank the wine of
he holy sacrament and ate the bread of
which eff man eat he shall never hun
ger" He was the up and down, otlt and
,ut 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 it
nything unreasonable, he.would have
elected it, because he was good rea-
oner. If there had been in it anything
hat would not stand research he would
AVE exploded the fallacy, for his life
vas a life of research. Young men of
young men of America,
Dung men of the round world, a re-
igion that would stand the test of JUS
ice Fields penetrating and all-ran-
acl1ing intellect must have in it some
hing worthy of your confidence. 1 tell
on now that Christianity has not only
he heart of the world on it's side, but
he brain of the world also. Ye who
ave tried to represent the religion of
ha pibIa eo,,,oIbinor Y,1sci11o