Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-03-09

tators rise TO Es>eet them, and the officer
with the words: "Oyez. oyer, oyeaf"
announces that all II now ready for u
hearing and exciaims: God save the
United States OF America" so wish we
could in Imagination gather together
those who have occupied that high 3u-
dicisl place In this and other lands. and
they might enter. and after the falling
of some mighty gavel had demanded at
ssntion we could look upon them
MsrshaI. the giant of American juris-
prudence. and John jay. OF whom Daniel
Webster said in commcmoration:
when the spotless ermine of the jn-
iicial robe fell on John JAY. II touched
nothing less spctleSs than itself" and
RutlcdSc 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 I've 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 il touches. Natural law.
Civil law. Social law. Commercial law.
Common law. Moral law. Ecclesiastical
law. International law. Oh. the Dig
nifty. the impressivcncss. tho power Of
law, II is the only thing before which
Jehovah bows. but lie bows before
that. although tho law is OF His own
making. The law, BY IL worlds swing.
BY il the fate OF centuries is decided.
BY II all the affairs OF time and all tho
cycles OF eternity viii llc governed.
We cannot soar SO high. or sink so deep.
or reach out SO far. or live so long as 10
escape IT, II is the throne on which the
Almighty sits To interpret law. what
n profession. What responsibility
What an cNecration when tie Judge De
. Lord JefFrCys, What benediction If
he be Chancellor Kent.
Have YOU ever realized how much God
has honored Law in the fact that oil up
and down the Bible lie makes the Judge
a type of Himself and employs the scene
of courtroom 10 set forth the grand
ours OF the great Judgment day? Book
OF Genesis: "Shan not the Judge OF all
the earth do right2" Book OF Deuter-
onomy: The Lord shall judge His pco-
| Pile" 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 IL be understood how God
honors judges and courtrooms until the
thunderbolt of the last day shall pound
tho 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 viii be
read. and the indictment of ten counts.
which are the Ten Commandments.
Justice will plead the case against as.
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 90 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
L
stand the significance Of those Scrip
ture passages which speak of God os
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
fcssion could ask Of him. and TO have
made that profession still more honor
able by his brilliant and sublime life. i.
enough for national and international
terrestrial and celestial congratulation
And then 10 expire beautifully Will,
the prayers Of his church were bcin.
offered at his bedside, the door o.
Heaven opening for his entrance as tn
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. want TO tell you tina
, Justice Field believed in the Bible from
lid 10 lid. book all true either as doc
d trine OF history, much of Il the histor
J. of events that neither God nor man ap
proves. Our friend drank the wine O
Il 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
e religion he would have secuted IL, for h
5 was logician. IL there had been in
u anything unreasonable. he would hay
n rejected il. because hs was a good rel
, soner. II there had been in il anVthin