The Burke County news. [volume] (Morganton, N.C.) 1899-1901, 1899-05-12

and fash OF assassin's knife to 1T him for Ia.
high place where he could defy legislatures
and congresses and presidents and the
world when be knew he was right. Hard.
ship Is the grindstone that sharpens intel
lectual faculties, and the swords with
which to strike effectively for God and
ones country.
Notice also how much our friend did for
the honor ofthe judiciary. What momen-
toua scenes have been witnessed in our
United States Supreme Court. on the
bench and before the bench. whether. far
back, 1t held Its sessions in the upper room
OF the Exchange at New York, or after
ward Tor ten years in the City Hall at
Philadelphia, or later in the cellar OF
yonder capitol, the place where for many
years the Congressional Library was kept.
q sapulcher where books were buried alive.
the hole called by John Randolph the cave
OF Trophonius!'
How suggestive the invitation which
William Writ, the great Virginian, wrote
his friend inviting him to yonder Su preme
Courtroom: Tomorrow p week will come
on the great steamboat question from New
York. Emmett and Oakley on one side,
Webster and myself on the other. Come
down and ear it. Emmett's whole soul
IS IN the case, and he will stretch all his
powers. Oakley is said to be one of the
finest logicians OF the age, as much a
Phocion az Emmett is a Themistocles, and
Webster IS as ambitious as Caesar. He will
not be outdOne by any man II it is within
the compass Of his power to avoid it. Come
to Washington. 1t will be a combat worth
witnessing" The Supreme Court has stood
so high in England and the United States
that the vices Of a few who have occupied
that important place have not been able to
disgrace It, neither the corruption OF
Francis Bacon, nor the cruelty OF Sir
George Mackenzie, nor the Sabbath desecra-
ton Of Lord Castlereagh.
To fhot hInhocf ~ Il tri}, n I Ab~oIn vo
Lincoln called our friend, but he lived long
enough to honor the Supreme Court more
thsl it had ever honOred him.. For more
than tairty-four years lie sat in the pres
ence OF this nation and Of all nations a
model judge. Fearlessness, integrity, de-
votion to principle. characterized him. No
bride 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 a~ssocia-
} ted in the history OF this country with the
greatest OF the judiciary.
; To have done well. all that such a pro-
fession could ask OF him, and to have mfle
that profession still moro honorable by his
brilliant and sublime life, is enough for ma
tional and International, terrestrial and
celestial congratulation. Aud then to ex-
pire beautifully, while the prayers Of his
church were being offered at his bedside,
the door Of heaven opening for his en-
trance as the door OF earth opened for his
departure, the sob OF the earthly farewell
caught up into raptures shat never die.
Yes, he lived and died in the faith Of the
old fashioned Christian religion.
Young man, I want to tell you that JUS
tice Field believed in the Bible from lid to
lid, u book all true either as doctrine or
history, much Of it the history OF events
that neither God nor man approves. Our
friend drank the wine of the holy sacra.
ment and ate the bread OF which iii a man
eat he shall never hunger" He was theup
and down, out and out friend Of the church
Of Christ. II there had been anything H.
logical In our religion, he would have
secuted 1t, for he was a logician. II there
had been in 1t anything unreasonable, be
would have rejected it, because he was q
great reasoner. II there had been IN il any
thing hat would not stand research, he
lie was a life Of research. Young men o.
Washington, young men OF America, young
men OF the round world, a religion tha
would stand the test Of Justice Field
penetrating and all ransacking Intellect
M have in it something worthy OF you
confidence. tell you now that Christian
ity has not only the heart OF the world or
it's side, but the brain Of the world also
Ye who have tried to represent the religion
OF the Bible as something pusiilanimous
how do you account for the Christian fat!
of Stephen J. Field, whole shelves OF tn
law library occupied with MS maShlhceh
decisions?
And now may the God Of all comfor
speak to the bereft, especially to her VIII
was the queen Of his life from the day whe
as a stranger he was how to her pew il
the Episcopal Church to this time OF IN
broken heart. He changed churches, bl
did not change religion. for the church /
which he was born and the church /
which he died alike believe in God III
Father Almighty Maker Of heaven an
earth, and in Jesus Christ, Hi, only bego'
ten Son, and In the communion e saint!
and In the life everlasting. Amen.
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