The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-06

Par Association Of the city at the Broad
way Methodist church yesterday morn,
ing. The lawyers were present in {
body with an exception. DR.. hCappel
body with hardly an eception. DR.. Chap
pell said in part:
reality means to place or to lay. Blu,
the word law signifies a rule of action
and is applied to every sort of action
whether animate or inanimate, rational
or irrational. We not only speak of the
laws of God and man but there is a
law of motion, law of gravitation, a
law OF Nature. There is also a rule Of
action prescribed by a superior TO an
inferior.
The practice of law is a profession.
The lawyer is the exponent and inter-
prefer of the law. Any professional life
is life dedicated to society and not to
ones self. The very meaning of the
word implies that We are not our own
but that we are servants Of the com
munity. Thus have Theology, law and
medicine stood together as the three
great professions. There have been law
yers in society until the memory Of
man runneth not to the contrary. So
ciety has furnished many examples
both good and bad. It was a compli-
ment to the profession when the people
asked lawyer to question Christ. No
doubt he was gifted man. His sin
doubtless lay in the fact that he was
trying to darken counsel rather than en-
tighten 1t. Because Of the conduct of
this lawyer. together with many an.
other historical incident, there has been
almost an age long prejudice, at least
up to modern times, against lawyers.
Shakespeare in Henry VI, makes one
Of his characters say: The first thing
that we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
Lawyers Not rs Bad as Painted
The lawyers, as a rule, have not
been so bad as they have been painted.
1t is unfair to any profession to gage
them all on account of the conduct of
one Nobody knows that better than the
preacher who has suffered so much
along that line. That great commentator
of English law, Blackstone, was a Chris
tian. Wilberforce was both great law
yer and a great Christian. Charles
Chauncey, the flower of the bar of
Philadelphia, was q Christian, mighty
in word and in deed as also was Chief
Justice Marshall and Sir Thomas Moore
who died for the truth on the scaffold !
"One of the greatest pleas, as well
as one Of the mightiest pieces Of oratory
that was ever made in the history of |
Jurisprudence in this country was when |
Daniel Webster stood in the supreme |
court Of the United States at Wash
ington, in the famous Girard case, when |
he denounced in the most impassioned |
style that it was low, vulgar infidelity
to attempt to educate the public with
out giving them at the same time moral
sentiment. Samuel L. Southland, the
mighty leader OF the forum, stood on
the platform at Princeton College and
spoke on the literary excellency of the
Scriptures. Every lawyer should do his
dead level best to make as nearly as
possible his profession unnecessary
People have always rebelled against
law. And possibly there never has been
b time when they have rebeled against
i more than today.
Temptations Attend Profession
Every profession has its peculiar
The temptations of the
lawyer, the preacher and the doctor
ire more numerous, as well as more
tanning, than that Of any other man.
There are hard questions that face us
q TlrnfacCinnal
'aid that the innocence OF guilt OF your
'lient IS nothing to you. You are to save
your client against everything and ev-
'rybody, even though you bring your
country into confusion. At all risks in
he world you must save your client.
Now over against this statement Cic-
'ro said: You must never plead the
'ase Of bad man. OF course they are
10Th greatly wrong. Lord Broughan,
must not only remember his client, but
emember society. Cicero also must
lot forget that the greatest william that
'ver walked the earth has q perfect
light to fair and impartial trial. Lord
1rskine gave up his attorney general
hip for the sake Of defending Thomas
'aine, while he hated the religious sen.
iment of Tom Paine with all his heart.
Between these two extreme cases God
lone can direct our pathway in the
traight path of right, and l cite you
ny authority If any man lack wis.
lom let him ask of God who giveth
o all men literally
There are peculiar temptations that
ONE to the lawyer. First, the tempta-
ion 10 stimulate. No man knows the
emptation along that line until he
las exhausted himself with public
peeches. No one who has not addressed
audiences can possibly know the nerv-
US exhaustion that comes afterwards.
n crowded church or crowded court
oom. the courtroom being often badly
the energy of the speaker
nd counsel is exhausted.
Second, another mighty temptation
Or the lawyer is Sabbath breaking. !
now many lawyers Soday, good friends