The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-06-06
DIR. ASHLEY CHAPPELL DELIVERS FIRST
OF SERIES OF MUNICIPAL SERMONS TO
MEMBERS OF ARDMORE BAR ASSOCIATION

Of mine. who are breaking the Sab
bath. You are in the midst of a great
case. You feel that you must work
on this case on Sunday. There never
was greater mistake. Judge Nelson
speaking on the great Rufus Choate
said that during his last great case
when court adjourned from Friday un.
til Monday, that on the intervening
Sabbath. he saw Mr.. Choate in the old
brick church listening to DR.. Spring
preach. Every lawyer is entitled to a
days rest in the seven. II he does not
get II he robs God and himself, as we'll
as his client. Lord Castlereagh and Sir
! Thomas Romilly were the leaders of the
bar in their day. They both died suicides
from breaking the Sabbath. Wilberforce
speaking of Castlereagh said: Poor fel-
low, 1t was non-observance of the Sab
bath Chief Justice Hale says when
he does not keep the Lords day all the
rest of the week is unsuccessful and un-
happy. Let me quote from the high
Statute Book of the universe 'Remem-
Der the Sabbath day and keep it holy
Third, there is temptation also to
hide the facts in the case so as to win
for your client in order that you may be-
come popular in the winning of other
clients. Remember we can do nothing
against the truth but for the truth, and
that truth crushed to earth will rise
again. For all of us, either preacher,
lawyer, doctor, or what not, must stand
before the judgment seat of Christ Death
will serve on every one of us a writ of
ejtctment and we will be put off the
pi icrnises. Lord Exeter was tried for
high treason. Impeachment charges
were preferred against Lord Lovatt
Charles the First and Queen Cathrine
were put on trial. Robert Emmett was
arraigned as an insurgent. But all of
these trials are nothing compared with
the great trial at which we shall all ap-
pear. On that great day of trial the in
dictment will be read. I read the in
dictment. The soul that sinneth, it
shall die. We cannot deny the fact for
this Book says so For all have sinned
and come short of the glory of God
Il call the witnesses of this indict.
ment. The first is conscience How
many thousands Of times we have out
ragged it. The second is the Bible. This |
Book We have used in the practice OF |
law and whose law we have broken. Let |
the law be eecuted. Let judgment be |
l see man being brought |
into court who has no friends, no money, |
no lawyer. The judge, looking over the |
bar, asks who will volunteer to defend |
this man. There is an awful stiffness. I |
see one rising. He is young man OF |
& little over 80. His countenance is
suffused with tears and covered with
blood. He is one who knows of the law,
Of its demands, Of its penalties. He ad-
nits all that is proven against His
client. But he holds up his wounded
hand. You may count all the drops of
my tears and all the drops of my blood
am his ransom, took his courages.
et the cup pass from his lips for |
frank 1t TO the dregs. Put on him the
crown of life for / wore for him the
,rown of thorns.' And so shall we all
De tried at the judgment day. We will
lave no one to plead our case for US.
lie verdict, hear the verdict! The judge
shall rise and give His decision, never
% be appealed from. There is there
ore now no condemnation to them that
ire in Christ Jesus
The second in the series Of municipal
ermons' will be delivered Sunday, June
2, when DR.. Chappell will talk to ply.
cians of the city.