Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1908-03-28

ment: "Now we have drawn the adder's
fangs and choked the viper's hiss, ana
they can no longer do us harm" Thus
some people Of the present generation
are like those ancient barbarians. They
class all lawyers in one great group.
They call them vipcrs and destroyers.
busybodies and fomenters of STRIFE.
'Tis true. some lawyers Of the past
generation may have been bad, yet
there have always been honest lawyers,
and have we not right to desire a
succession of them-men who VIII
worthily wear the mantle of the old
fashioned Christian lawyer as well as
men to don the honored robes OF the
old fashioned Christian doctors and
Christian minlstersp
The Old Fashioned Family Lawyer.
Who was the chief hope of the old |
grandfather I'm a time of great famlly |
trouble? The family lawyer. You |
think of the old mans son as an hon
orable man. He was after he married
and settled down. When he died he
was respected by the community IN
which he lived. He was loved by
every one. But If should 60 back IN
the family history could find time
when he was not what he was when
YOU knew him. Once as a young man
he was led into an awful temptation.
He would have been sent to the penl-
tentiary had his crime been dealt win
in the courts. But that Christian law
YER went to the district attorney ana
pleaded with him for mercy. lie hlm-
self signed the bail bond. He himself
went TO the Judge and had the matter
fixed I'D. You never knew. The world
never knew. The old father and moth
er knew. The young man knew. Inc
Christian lawyer knew. Who was II
when the young girl went astray per-
suaded her parents to take her back
and restore her to the fireside OF q
pure home? Who was 1t when your
father in anger wanted to dlsinherlc
YOU on account of your escapades per-
suaded him TO let bygones be bygones
and LET the children share and share
oIi,,eP II was the Christian lawyer
who did all these things. Oh, the in
finite influence for good of the old
fashioned Christian lawyer! Is there
any young man willing to take up the
fallen mantle of the old fashioned
christian lawyers who worked for
Christ and who did just as valiant
service for their Divine Master as dlu
their contemporaries, the Christian doc
tor and the gospel ministerF
VIII you. as future lawyers, try 10
save men instead Of for mercenary re-
wards or for fame trying to destroy
, men? VIII you be like the great and
good Judge Nye, who was many years
, ago appointed one of the judges OF the
. New York bench? One day young
boy was brought before him for steal
y ing. He inquired into the case, ana ne
!, found that the boy had formerly been
. nm honest boy, but his mother was
; starving and he stole bread for her 70
. eat Judge Nye sent for the distric'
h attorney and said: This boy has sur
: fered enough. You must not prose
!. cute him. But the district attorney
]. ssid: Il win prosecute him. Let BIZ
!. .ar, go said.l II will appoint ~
7 Judge 1 rIHJiIGtV OI.yllcU
g counsel. will be his lawyer" AT tne
= trial he turned to the jury and SAID
II Gentlemen Of the jury, look at TINS
n bov. Is there one among you VINO VII
!. blast his life and refuse to give MIN
"a another chance in the worldT "
" course the jury acquitted him. Thei
.. Judge Nye's influence got the lad ap
:. pointed to the Naval academy at An
r. napolis. Years later this judge pc
- came Senator James Nye Of Nevada
a He was in Washington. He was be1ni
70 entertained in the White House, ant
= there at the presidents table one o
20 the most honored heroes OF Admlra
n Farragut's fleet came up and graspe
,r his hand as he said, Senator Nye, d
80 Won know me?" NO." answered tn
- great senator. "Well, sir, am the bo
70 YOU saved from jail and sent to tn
m Naval academy" Do you think tina
is boy was worth saving? Do you beliey
ho that lad ought to have been saved
= Then We living lawyers, go forth an
,o do likewise. In Christs name lift u
~ the fallen mantles of the old fashione
to Christian lawyer even as Elisha too
ho I'M the fallen mantle Of the proph'
nv Elijah.
rk The Old Fashioned Merchant.
ST. Would that l had time to speak
rk length about the fallen mantle Of Il
an old fashioned Christian merchant, b
or 7 have not. The old fashioned Chrl
by tIan merchants heart was not natural
very much different from the heart
the modern merchant, but that hea
70 was every day brought into close tou'
"a with the lives of his employees. Ihel
,ilI fore his employees joys were his Joy
,rn and their sorrows were his sorro"
Gill Now the modern store or factory IS
ov great human beehive. Unless the mo
md ern merchant makes a special enc
Gill each day to work for Christ among
an, employees he can never hope to do
ros work for Christ which the old fas
MO ioned Christian merchant did amo
vii his employees. Why, there are
,or MANY that he does not know them, L
,eir do they know him. Thus there Is
ora norance on both sides.
od, O modern merchants, are you rea
tbo to do this individual work for the Nj
ono ter among those who are working
,tb. you day by day? Do not say you ha
' IN no opportunity. Give the boy Il
- comes into your employ kindly gre
han ing. Ask him about his home
M non friends. Gain his confidence and
Ia Ia him regard you as his friend. He
rso serve you all the better for it, and
wv W. may save him from the temptations
nen the city. The merchant who seeks