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One of the most notable characters of onr time is the subject of Dr. Talmage's discourre. and the lessons drawn are inspiring; text, II Samuel iii, 88, "Know ye .not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel V . ' Here is a plumed catafalque, followed by King David and a fnneral oration -which be delivers at the tomb. Con cerning Abner, the great, David weers on t-the text More appropriately than when originally uttered we may now utter this resounding lamentation, "Know ye not that there is a prince nnd a great man fallen this day in Israel?" It was 30 minutes after 6, the exact hour of sunset of the Sabbath day, and while the evening lights were being kindled, that the soul of Stephen J Field, the lawyer, the judge, the pa triot, the statesman, the Christian, ascended. It was sundown in the home on yonder Capitol hill, as it was sun down on all the surrounding hills, but in both cases the sunset to be followed by a glorious sunrise. Hear the Easter anthems still lingering in the nir, "The trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall rise. Our departed friend came forth a boy from a minister's home in New Eng land, lie knelt with father and mother at morning and evening prayer, learned from maternal lips lessons of piety which lasted him and controlled him amid all the varied and exciting scenes of a lifetime and helped him to die in neace an octocenarian. Blot out from American history the names of these ministers sons who have done honor to judicial bench and commercial circle and national legislature irnd presidential chair, and you would 'obliterate many of the grandest chapters of tliat history. It is no small advantage to have started from a home where God is honored and the subject of a world's emancipation from sin and sorrow is under constant discussion. The Ten Commandments, which are the foundation of all pood aw Roman law. German law, Eng lish law, American law are the best foundation neon which to build charac ter, and those which the bey, Stephen J. Field, so often heard in the parson- aee at Stocktndee were his guidance when a half century after, a a gowned nstice.of the supreme court of tne United States, he unrolled his opinions. Bibles, hymn books, catechisms, family nravers. atmosphere sanctified, are good a, a - surroundings for boys and girls to start from, and if our laxer ideas of religion and Sabbath days and home training produce as splendid men and women as the much derided Puritanic babbatn and Puritanic teachings have produced, it will be a matter of congratulation and thanksgiving. Do not rasa by the fact that I have not yet seen emphasized that Stephen J. Field was a minister's son. Notwith standing that there are conspicuous ex ceptions to theruha and the exceptions have built up a stereotyped defamation on the subject statistics plain and un deniable prove that a larger proportion of ministers' eons turn out well than are to be found in any other genealogic al table. Let all the parsonages of all denominations of Christians where chil dren are growing up take the consola tion. See the star of hope pointing down to that manger I Member of Royal Family. Notice also that our departed friend was a member of a royal family. There were no crowns or scepters or thrones in that ancestral line, but the family of the Fields, like the family of the New York Primes, like the family of the Princeton Alexanders, like a score of families that I might mention, if it were best to mention them, were "the children of the king" and had put on them honors brighter than crowns and wielded influence longer and wider than scepters. That family of Fields traces an honorable lineage back 800 years to Ilubertus do la Feld, coadjutor of Wil liam the Conqueror. Let us thank. God for snch families, generation after gen eration on the eide of that which is right and good. Four sons of that coun try minister, known the world over for extraordinary usefulness in their spheres, legal, commercial, literary and theological, and a daughter, the mother of one of the associate justices of the supreme court. Such families counter balance for good those families all wrong from generation to generation families that stand for wealth, unright eously got and stingily kept or wicked ly squandered; families that stand for fraud or impurity or malevolence; fam ily names that immediately come to every mind, though through sense of propriety they do not come to the lip. The name of Field will survive centu ries and be a synonym for religion, for great jurisprudence, for able Christian journalism, as the names of the Pha raohs and the Qesars stand for cruelty and oppression and vice. While parents cannot aspire to have such conspicuous households as the one the name of whose son we now cele brate, all parents may by fidelity in prayer and holy example have their sons and dcughters become kings and qneens unto God. to reign forever and ever , But the work has already been nniiA. ana I could eo through this coun try and find a thousand households I which have by tne grace 01 vuu auu blessing upon paternal, and maternal excellence become the royal families of A mprlra. Let young men beware lest they by j their behavior blot s-acb family records ; with some misdeed. We can all think of households the names of which meant everything honorable and con tecrated for a long while, but by the j ice.1 cf one eon sacrificed, disgraced I )D blasted. Look out how yon" rob ! your consecrated ancestry of the name they handed to you unsullied I Better as trustee to that name add something worthy. Do something to honor the old homestead, whether tt- mountain cabin or a city Uansicn or a country parson age. Rjv. David Dudley Field, though 32 year pasaed upward, is honored to day by the Christian life, the service. the death of bis son Stephen. InEneace of n Good Father. - Among the most absorbing books of the Bible is the ljook of Kings, which a;vin and again illustrates that, though piety is not hereditary, the style of parentage has much to -do with the style of descendant. It declares of King Abijam. "He walked in all the sins of his father which be had done before him," and of King Azariah, "He did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his fa ther Amaziah had done." We owe a debt to those who have gone before in our line as certainly as we have obliga tions to those who subsequently appear in the household. Not so sacred is your old father's walking staff, which you keep in his memory or the eyeglasses through which your mother studied the Bible in her old age as the name they bore, the name which you inherited. Keep it bright, I charge you. Keep it suggestive of something elevated in character. Trample not underfoot that which to your father and mother was dearer than life itself. Defend their graves as thoy defended your cradle. Family coat of arms, escutcheons, en-1 signs armorial, lion couchant, or lion dormant, or lion rampant, or lion com batant, may attract attention, but bet ter than all heraldic inscription is a family name which means from gener ation to generation faith in God, self sacrifice, duty performed, a life well lived and a death happily died and a heaven gloriously won I That was the kind of name that Justice Field aug mented and adorned and perpetuated a name honorable at the close of the eighteenth century, more honored now at the close of the nineteenth. Noticealso that our illustrious friend was great in reasonable and genial dis sent. Of 1,042 opinidhs he rendered, none were more potent or memorable than those rendered while he was in small minority jind sometimes in a mi nority of one. A learned and distin guished lawyer of this country said he would rather be author of Judge Field s dissenting opinions than to be the au thor of the constitution of the United States. The tendency is to go with the multitude, to think what others think, to say and do what ethers -da Some times the majority are wrong, and it requires heroes to take the negative, but to do that logically and in good humor requires some elements of make up not often found in judicial dissent ers or, indeed, in any class of men. There are so many people, in the world opposed to everything, and who display their opposition in rancorous and ob noxious ways that a Judge Field was needed to make the negative respected and genial and riht. Minorities under God save the world and save the church. An unthinking and precipitate "yes" may be stopped by a righteous and he roic "no." The majorities are not al ways right. The old gospel hymn de clares it: " Numbers are no mark that men will right be found; A few were saved in Noah's ark to many mil lions drowned. y Ilia Dlaaentlna; Opinion. The declaration of American inde pendence was a dissenting opinion. The Free church of Scotland, under Chal mers and his compeers, was a dissenting movement The Bible itself, Old Testa ment and New Testament, is a protest against the theories that would have destroyed the world and is a dissenting as well as a divinely inspired book. The decalogue on Sinai repeated ten times "Thou shalt not." For ages to come will be quoted from lawbooks in court rooms Justice Field's magnificent dis senting opinions. Notice that our ascended friend had such a character as assault and peril alone can develop. He had not come to the Foft cushions of the supreme court bench stepping cn cloth of gold and saluted all along the line by handclap ping of applause. Country parsonages do not rock their babes in satin lined cradle or afterward send them out into the world with encugh in their hand to purchase place and power. Pastors' sal aries in the early part of this Century hardly ever reached $700 a year. Econ omies that sometimes cut into the bone characterized many of the homes of the New England clergymen. The young lawver cf whom we speak today arrived in San Francisco in 1849uwith only $10 in his pocket Williamstown college was only introductory to a post gradu ate course which our illustrious friend took while administering justice and haltinsr ruffianism amid the mining camps of California. Oh, those "forty- niners, as they were called, througn what privations, through what narrow . -. 1 .1 escapes, amia wnai exposures xney moved! Administering and executing law among outlaws never has been an easy unaertaKing. Among mouniam- eers. many of wham had no regard for human life and where the snap of pistol and bang cf gun were not unusual re sponses, required courage of the highest metal. Behind a dry goods box -surmounted by Callow .candles Judge Field began bis judicial career. What exciting acenes he passed through! An infernal machine was handed to him, and inside the lid of the box was pasted his de cision in the Pueblo case, the decision that had balked unprincipled specula tors. Ten years ago his life would have passed out had net an officer of the law shot down his assailant It took a long training of hardship and abuse and misinterpretation and threat of yiolence end fiaeh of assassin's knife to fit bim for the high place whereTie could defy legislatures and congresses and presi trZ 3 tha wpW when t 1r-. r was right Hardship is the grindstone that sharpens intellectual faculties, and the ffwords with which to strike effect ively for God and one's country. . The reason that life to so many is a failure is because they do not have op position enough and trials enough or because they ignominously lie down to be run over by them instead of using them for stairs on which to put their foot and mount Thoee "born with a gold spoon in their mouths" are apt to take their last medicine out of a pewter mug. Have brave heart in all depart ments, ye men of many obstacles I There is no brawn or character without them. The roughs glaring and growling around about the shed of a courtroom in Marys ville, Cab. bad as much to do with Judge - Field's development as Mark Hopkins, the great Williamstown col lege president Opposition develops courage. I like the ring of Martin Lu ther's defiance when he said to the Duke of Saxony, "Things are otherwise ordered in heaven than they are at Augsburg." Honor of the Jndlclary. Notice also how much our friend did for the honor' of the judiciary. What momentous scenes have-been witnessed in our United States supreme court, on the bench and before the bench, wheth er, far back, it held its sessions in the up per room of the Exchange at New York, or afterward for 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, a sepulcher where books were buried alive, the hole called by John Randolph "the cave of Trophoniusl" What mighty men stood before that bar pleading in immortal eloquence on ques tions of national import I Edmund Ran dolph and Alexander Hamilton and Pinkney and Jeremiah Mason and Caleb Cuehing and the weird and irresistible Rufus Choate and Gecrge Wood and Charles O'Conor and James T. Brady and Francis B. Cutting and men now living just as powerful. How suggestive the invitation which William Wirt, the great Virginian, wrote his friend inviting him to yonder supreme courtroom: ".tomorrow a 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 hear it. Emmett's whole soul is in the case, and he will stretch all hispowers. Oakley is said to be one of the finest, logicians of the age, as much a Phocion as Em mett is a Themistocles, and Webster is as ambitious as Caesar. He will not' be outdone by any man if it is within the compass of his power to avoid it Come to Washington. It 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, nei ther the corruption of Francis Bacon, nor the cruelty of Sir George Macken zie, nor the Sabbath desecration of Lord Castlereagh. - To that highest of all tribunals Abra ham Lincoln called our friend, but he lived long enough to honor the supreme court more than it had ever honored him. For more than 84 years he sat in the presence of this nation and of all nations a model judge. Fearlessness, integrity, devotion to principle, char acterized him. No bribe 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 'associated in the history of this country with the greatest of the judiciary. As at 13 o'clock day by day on yonder hill the gavel falls in the supreme court room and it is announced that the chief justice cf the United States and the associate justices are about to en ter, and all counselors at the bar and all spectators rise to greet them, and the officer with the words, "Oyez, oyez, oyez I" announces that all is now ready for a hearing and exclaims, ' 'God save the United States of America, so I wish we could in imagination gather together those who have occupied that high judicial place in this and other lands, and they might enter and after the falling of some mighty gavel had demanded attention we could look upon them Marshall, the giant of American jurisprudence, and John Jay, of whom Daniel Webster said in com memoration, "When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself," and Rutledge and Cnshing and Ellsworth and Joseph Storey, called the Walter Scott of common law, and Sir Matthew Hale and Lord Eldon and Lord Tenterden and Sir James Mcin tosh and Mansfield and the long line of lord chancellors and .the great judges rom both sides the sea and after they had taken their places in our quickened imagination the distinguished cases of centuries which they decided might again be called on, after the assembled nations had ejaculated, "God save the United States of America," "God save Great Britain," "God- eave the na tions." The Sanctity of Ltw. Ah, how the law honors and sancti fies everything it touches 1 Natural law.. Civil law. Social law. Commercial . . m .1 r 1 1 Ty 1 law. UOmmoa law. -mora jaw. jc;ie- siastical law. International law. Oh, the dignity, the impressiveness, - the power of law I It is the only thing be fore which Jehovah bows, but ne dows before that, although the law is of his own making. The law 1 By it worlds ewing. By it the fate of centuries is decided. By it all the affairs of time and all the cycles of eternity will be governed. We cannot soar, so high or sink so deep or reach out so far or live bo long as to escape it! It is the throne en - which-the Almighty sits. To in terpret law, what a profession I What a responsibility 1 What an execration when the judge be a Lord Jeffreys t What a benediction if he be a Chancel- or Kent! In passing, let me " say that for this chief tribunal of our country congress Ihcd soon prqTidabtter place. Let oirse of the moneys voted for improve ment of rivers which are nothing but dry creeks and for harbors which will never have any shipping and for monu ments to some people whom it is not at all important for us to remember- be voted for the erecticn of a building worthy of our United States supreme court John Ruskin. in "Stones f Venice," calls attention to the pleasing fact that in the year 813 the doge of Venice devoted himself to putting up two great buildings St Mark's, for the worship of God, and a palace .for the administration of justice toman. In its appreciation of what is beat let not 1899 be behind 818. With such granite in our quarries and such architects ca pable of drafting sublime structure and such magnificent sites on which to build, let not another year pass before we bear the trowel ring on the cornerstone of a temple to be occupied by the highest court of the land. Have you ever realized how much God has honored law in the fact that all up and down the Bible he makes the judge a type of himself and employs the scene of a courtroom to set forth the grandeurs of the great judgment day f Book of Genesis, "Shall not the judge of all the earth do right?" Book of Deuteronomy, "The Lord shall judge his people." Book of Psalms, "God is Judge himself. " Book of Acts, "Judge of quick and dead." Book of Timothy, "The Lord the righteous Judge. " Nev er will it be understood how God honors judges and courtrooms until the thun derbolt of the last day shall pound the 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 will be read and the indictment of ten counts, which are, the Ten Commandments. Justice will plead the case against us, but our glorious advocate will plead in our be half, for "we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ, the right eous." Then the case will be decided in our clearance, as the Judge announces "There is now, therefore, no condem nation to them who are in Christ Jesus " Under the crowded galleries of cloud on that last day, and under, the swaying upholstery of a burning heav ens, and while the Alps and Himalayas and Mount Washington are falling flat on their faces, we will be able to under stand the significance of those Scripture passages which speak of God as Judge and employ the courtroom of earth as typical of the scene when all nations shall be brought into tribunal. Services Faithfully Performed. To have done well, all that such a profesfeion.could ask of him, and to have made that profession still more honor able by his brilliant and sublime life, is enough for national and international. terrestrial and celestial congratulation. And then to expire beautifully, while the prayers of his church were being offered at his bedside, the door of heav en opening for his entrance as the door of earth opened for his departure, the sob of the-earthly farewell caught up into raptures that never die. Yes, he lived and died in the faith of the old fashioned Christian religion. Young man, I want to tell you that Justice Field believed in the Bible from lid to lid, a book all true either as doc trine or history, much of it the history of events that neither God nor man ap proves. Our friend drank the wine of the holy sacrament and ate the bread of which "if a man eat he shall never hunger. " He was the up and down, out and out friend of the church cf Christ If there had been anything illogical in our religion, he would have scouted it for he was a logician. If there had been in it anything unreasonable, he would have rejected it, because he was a great reasoner. If there had been in it any thing that would not stand research, be would have exploded the fallacy, for his life, was a life of research. Young men of Washington, young men of America, young men of the round world, a religion that would stand the test of Justice Field's penetrating and all ransacking intellect must have in it something worthy of your confidence. I tell you now that Christianity has not only the heart of the world on its side, but the brain of the world also. Ye who have tried to represent the religion of the Bible as iBomething pusillani mous, how do you account for the Christian faith of Stephen J. Field, whole shelves of the law library occu pied with his magnificent decisions? And now may. the God of all comfort speak to the bereft, especially to her who was the queen of his life from the day when as a stranger he was shown to her pew in the Episcopal church to this time of the broken heart He changed clmrches, but did not change religion?, for the church in which- he was born nd the church in which he died alike believe in God the Father Al mighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in J aa Christ, his only begotten Son, and iu the communion of saints, and in the life everlasting. Amen. The body of our friend sleeps in tem porary resting place. Hearts over whelmed with grief cannot just now decide where that- sacred and silent form shall bear the trumpet that wakes the dead. Three places are proposed, and all appropriate. Some say let it be in some God's acre near this capital, where the pillows of dust are already embroidered with spring flowers. How appropriate some cemetery near this city, which was so long his residence, and so near the place where he eat in judgment, holding evenly the balances that God put in his band I It would be well for us sometimes to go out and read his epitaph and recall , his virtues. Borne say let him rest on the Pacific slope, where he achieved so much for the new state and fitted himself for so great eminence, and it would be beau tiful to let the whole nation bow at his passing catafalque, a funeral reaching from ocean to ocean and 8,00omiles long, the Alleghanies and tha Rockies nd the Sierra Nevadas echoing the. thunders of the rail train taking him to is last earthly home. But equally &s appropriate is another proposal that he be put to rest amid the graves of father and mother and re nowned" brothers and the New England friends of the family in the ceniftcry at Stock bridge, Mass. After a life if toil and strcegle he needs some qnic t place. Old men who were his scboolfti lows would lean heavily upon the Maff and watch ss he was brought through the-gates cf the place in which they also will soon lie down to rct. Far away from the jo?tle and contention and ruh and activities cf tho K""t cities he would lwp the calm lp of the just The hyacinths and rails lili of the spring planted there would typify the resurrection, and the snows of win ter banked there would ungfrtJt tho robes made white in the blood of the Lamb. Goodby, my dear old friend of more than 80 years. Your words of p raotial encouragement and gortd cheer give , me the right to offer words of com mem oration. But I niuet leave to others 14s place of buriaL This city might choice Rock Creek and Oak Hill, and Sun Fran cisco might choose Lone Mountain ; yet if I had my choice I would pay let it te the cemetery nt Stockbridge. He would be at home there and it would 1 a family reunited, but whatever to the place, let me pprinkle over tho newly made grave this handful of heather from the Scotch highlands, in the hymn which the people of that land cf An drew Melville and John Knox nr apt to sing on their way to the grave of some one greatly beloved : Neighbor, a-xvpt onr imrtlng aong. The road Is Bhort, Xhf rrst ia lonjr. The Lord brought here, tho Ix.rd tal:p henca; Thia la no houte at jvrninninru. On bread nf mirth and lm-ml f tnr The-j iltfrim ft-d tl.r.-' clitvkcrpd ymis. Now, landtrd wrrM, li'.t to thcihur: Thy guest is p-m U tcvt 11. n-. Gone to th hind of M ct r t ' . His romrtidf 1 1 us him its ) (: a. Of toil and n!il the day w.-.i fuih A gjxd t-ln-j) now tin- nii,ht in ool. Yea, village t. IN. rtiif fut'Ar, rtnR, Ard in the bht-i d Fid.txitli hih.it Which frr.m lhi wenry woikduy tryit Awaits God's folk through .Tcm-.m C hrlnt. An liiMiiVlltttt Programme. A lady's maid Avhn hud been to a servants' bill cuiiio back before the evening was half over and in toars. Her mistress inquired the can ho. "1 was gnv-sly insulted, ma'am, by a youn man. ' "Well, what did he oV "Well, mfi'aui. ho asked mo to go down to snpih r with him, and when we had finished ho Kaid, 'Is your pro gramme full If" " London Chronicle. - . Dil1oiaac". "And ko Funitie Pcrkh-igh ' is going to marry that oil. duHvpit fellow just because he h::s a, Jut of iuony ?" "Oh, no, that isn't the reason. She's geing to marry him Ixrauso her parents, by throwing ont clever hints, cucctcdcd in making her lwlievo they didn't want her to have him. " Chic ago New. . It la I'nthvtlc, Ne ertliclra. Tho headline "Died IVnnile V loses nine-tenths of its patlioi when un? re flects that a tninute'aft-r death tho vic tim of snch pad c'ircuni.-taiK cs is jut n -well off us if he had died in -s 1. i-n of a hundred million.-Indianapolis' Journal. A C'onioliotf Tliuotflit. While most persons come int" the world crying, very few of them weep when they ate leaving it. Boston Transcript Many persons have their good day and their bid day. Other? are about half sick all the time. They have headache, backache, and are restless and nervous. Food does not taste good, and the diesriotfi3 poor; the skin is dry and sallow and disfigured with pimples or eruptions; sleep brings no rest and work Is a burden. What is the cause of all tbia? Impure blood And the remedy? It clears out the channels through which - poisons arc carried from the body. ..Vben all impurities are removed from the blood nature takes right hold and completes the cure. If there is constipation, take Ayer's Pills. They awaken the drowsy action of the liver; they cure biliousness. ' . ' " - Wrlim (o tmr Doctor ' " W ha the exclude aerrlfet ft ome ot the most eminent pl.ytlcUna tn "SMSK 8r2 0 LowaU, Wa. 0 c ! i r
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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April 28, 1899, edition 1
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