Connecticut western news., 1899-04-27

"OrGn WlIneSSlUS. me supreme court has stood so high in England and the United States that the vic , of few who have occupied that important place have not been able to disgrace it, nei ther the corruption of Francis Bacon, nor the cruelty of Sir George Macken- zie, nor the Sabbath dissertation of Lord Castlereagh.
 To that highest of all tribunals Abra ham Lincoln called our friend, but he lived long enough to honor the supreme court more than 1t had ever honored him. For more than 84 years he sat in the presence of this nation and of all nations a model judge. Fearlessness, integrity, devotion to principle, char acterized him. No bribe ever touched his hand. No profane word ever scalded his tongue. No blemish of wrong ever marred his character. Fully qualified was he to have his name associated in the history of this country with the greatest of the judiciary.
 As at 13 clock day by day on yonder hill the gavel falls in the supreme court room and it is announced that the chief justice Of the United States and the associate justices are about to en ter, and all counselors at the bar and all spectators rise to greet them, and the officer with the words, "Oyez, oyez, oyezp' announces that all is now ready for hearing and exclaims, "God save the United States of America, so I wish we could in imagination gather together those who have occupied that high judicial place in this and other lands, and they might enter and after the falling of some mighty gavel had demanded attention we could look upon them-Marshall, the giant of American jurisprudence, and John Jay, of whom Daniel Webster said in com memoration, "When the spotless ermine of the judicial 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 Tenterden and Sir James McIn- tosh and Mansfield and the long line of lord chancellors and the great judges from both sides the sea-and after they had taken their places in our quickened imagination the 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 na- tions."
 The Sanctity of Law.
 An, how the law honors and sancti- fies every thing it touchesl Natural law. Civil law. Social law. Commercial law. Common law. Moral law. Eccle- giastical law. International law. Oh, the dignity, the rmpressiveness, the power of lawl It is the only thing be- fore which Jehovah bows, but he bows before that although the law is of his own making. The lawl 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. It is the throne on which the Almighty sits To in- terpret law, what professionl What responsibility What an execration when the judge be a Lord Jeffreysl What benediction if he be Chancel- Tor Kent
 In passing, let me say that for this chief tribunal of our country congress should soon provide better place. Let some of the moneys voted for improve ment of rivers which are nothing but dry creeks and for harbors which will never have any shipping and for monu- ments to some people whom it is not at all important for us to remember-be voted for the erection of building worthy of our United States supreme court. John Ruskin, in "Stones of Venice, calls attention to the pleasing fact that in the year SIS the doge of Venice devoted himself to putting up two great buildings-St Marks, for the worship of God, and palace for the administration of justice to man. In its appreciation of what is best let not 1899 be behind SIS. Win such granite in our quarries and sucn architects ca pablo of drafting sublime structure and such magnificent sites on which to build, let not another year pass before we hear the trowel ring on the cornerstone o. a temple to be occupied by the highest court of the land.
 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 grandeurs of the great judgment day ? Book of Genesis. "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?" Book of Deuteronomy, "The Lord shall judge his people," Book of Psalms, "God is Judge himself" Book.of Acts, "Judge of quick and dead" Book of Timothy, "The Lord the righteous Judge" New er will it be understood how God honors judges and courtrooms until the thun- derbolt 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 be- half, for i've have an advocate with
 
 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, we will 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 we'll, 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,