TALMAGE SERMON

rtANK DC wrrrr TALMACC.D.D, ralter of Joffmoo Pork TrmbrUfloo Ohurtk, Cbicooo

Chlfafo, May *. - •f tko local profi-oaloo nl w«-U a* IU kighoat opportnnlllo* arr ap« aldr by

vhkti baa an Intwat for all riaaaoa. Th» text la I Timothy t 8. The Uw la good If a mao nap It lawfully.' Paul had all tho mental rjoaMBratloni of • Croat lawyer. When be atood hr fore Frill and aa hla own adioratr lore Into plrrra tbr charjrr madr hy thr praaorntlnc attorwry. Tcrtnllna; when hr argood before King Agrippa nntll tha king admitted be waa “almoat peraoaded;" alien be pleaded upon Mara bIH with the Jury of Greek arholara nntll at last eren that central aeat of Athenian culture waa ahakrn to Ita Very foundation by bla proclamation of the “unknown God." we find the hlgbeat development of forenak' training and legal aromen. Aa one arboolrd In the Uw. Pnol knew the mighty nod majeatir power of the Uw. both aplritual and temporal. Tbenrfore he Uya down tha broad propoaltlon that Uw la good for the community and that It U needed not only for the vindication of the right but for the ponUhment of wroogdom. whether the laws that tber break are boman or divine. le legal prof i-aa Ion off era ; opportnnltlca lo defend the weak and punlah the bad. there are aome cynlca who profraa to believe that an bonrat lawyer doee not exUt Sir Hartley WUlUma.

waa a plena lawyer In bU circuit who oaed to regnUrly pray that he might get ctlenta. “Imagine." aatd the Judge, “the Insnlt to the Almighty contained In the rrqneat tut God i bon Id atlr np

fa pnrpoer of thla plona t that cynical comment of the learned Judge might hare been entirely wrong That Uwyrr might be Innocent of any dealer to foment at rife and only anktooa to hare the opjvirto ntty of nerving hla fellow man and he aide to redrrga the wjonga of aome In Jured peraon. The noble profeaalon of the Uw la often oajoitly maligned. Like other prafaail na. It hai In IM ranka un worthy men who dlagracr It. and therr U no profeaalon In which trickery and

. _ , , . whoae knowledge and talents art devoted to tbr raoar of right and jortice. 1 want to aay to all

a that If they a

t before them d bold fast to ChrtatUo principle they may win aw reat to it. nerving. God falthfnyy and kMpmg their character noatalned. Ud me try to give you hrleOy my eoncep-

deprlve another of hU rights. Oh. the wrongi tliat are perpetrated by the rich and' powerful! Oh. how many there are who eager ah their Brea at the Tn the French BaetUle wan confined a stats prisoner known ae tbr “Man With the Iran Mask." He died In ITUS Thla

culm me French throne and thna concnalcd the face brvaunr the prisoner waa supposed to be facially an exact duplicate of the reigning king. If tbU story Le true. It brands Louts XIV. aa one of the moat atony hearted monsters tar what hu'mni'righta may hare bsan. to protect those right! he was not ■Jnotified In practicing a lifetime In Jnatlcr upon a brother. Uow many men are trying to deprive their brother man of hit rights! The Uwyer who

them In their crime i not here contending that It U wrong for tha Uwyer to defend a criminal to court. Kerry mas U entitled to a fair trial. Eren the wretch Caol goal had bla rigfau before the Uw.and Jutke required that, those rights U

but there U no berotsm-therr It only

Tet there are a great many lawyers who atBrm that they hare nothing to . Bo with the honesty or dishonesty of a cheat. Ah that they most do Is to pro sent the heal aide of a civil ant. and then the lodge or the Jury will rteckV whether a ratnr Is last or unjust. If n drunkard by hla own csroksso.es fills off I moving electric cnr. they Win bring amt against the si roe! cnr one qualm of Conscience. If a distant rtUtHe bya technical flaw can I ires l ■ will, they will help him do It sad dl Vert the money of a rich man Into a channel where It waa never Intended by the testator to go. This Was the way the estate of a famous lawyer statesman was tegstty stolen Every one who read hU will rieariy under

14 seals There la an old saying tliat ‘-nothing U more deceptive than a ralumn of fig nreg Then- U another old saying “Kotbing u It— “—

that case, but 1 will not argue It for you. Yon are dUhonest In your attempts to win that money. If I stood before a Jnry to plead for yon. erery word I tittered would seem to echo In my mind this sentence- -Abe. yon ye pleading for an untruth; Abe. you are a dUhonest msnr" John J. Crittenden, the groat senator, bad marveloas power with a Jury. Erery KentnckUn knew that Senator Crittenden would not under any condition consciously argue for a dUhonest cause. Many a college Ud haa. contracted a habit which has contamlnat.d bU whole fnture by standing up In a literary society to champion a wrong theme. Therefore. my legal friend, never under any condition become a party to a fraud by advocating In a dvll ault the dUhonest

Us pi an alibi, no matter bow much he may liellevi* In the Innocence of the defendant He never l»-lleres_lt honest to be dishonest or to tell a falsehood, no matter bow good the cause may be for which that falsehood has been told.

But tl

tefnptatloni before honest criminal lawyers are very.^rsat. Believing In the Innocence of Ibeir .clients, they know as no other cUss of men bow many Innocent victims have been sent to the penitentiary or the gallows through an nnbrcakable chain of false circumstantial evidence. In one of our Urge cl ties of the east a man was aroused one night by a nnlae. With lighted candle and rocked revolver.-he d was abot

irlct was

io crime HU lawyer believed him lo be Innocent He did all In bU power to save him. He was hanged. Borne years after the execution a dying convict confessed to that crime and thus proved that an Inn© cent man bad bla life choked oof by falae circumstantial evidence. In the aatne way a few yean ago a woman In the far west was murdered. An Innocent nun. proved so by later developments. Was found lo bare suacred for that crime. I once said to the warden of Bing Bing penltrnUary.

men In this prison who have teen sent hero unjustly by circumstantial etrldeorer "Lota of them." be answered "I beUrve ll.erc are lota of them." “Now." aa^the honest lawyer. "I betters my rllrot la Innocent and yet tbU falae chain of clrcnmslan Dal evidence will convict him unless I break It. Is It not right to fight fraud by frandl Am I not Justified In using any means to deliver tbU Innocent msnr la sorb a crisis the temptation

available, even though II Is known lo be false. He argues blmeelf' Into this position because be believe* be Is Justified In doing a wrong to srln

a right.

Bnt. my legal friend, two wrongs oarer make a right. No lawyer In any capacity la catted upon to lie. A false f alar bond, no matter bow It la told. If yon better* In J ostler, yonr own bands ran£ be clean when they touch hers, n^tonat yon contaminate your own lip* when yon would woo her to protect the Ilfs of yonr client. If a lawyer la willing to Ur for a good ranae. the time will not be very far

wW be Willing to tell

distant whew' b a faUebond to

right a

lawyer trie* to keep his client out of litigation If pgasthk That means be doe* for hU client es aetty what the tooeat doctor would do for hi* patient. The family physician, coming to the bedride of an Invalid dor* not my. "How long can 1 keep this man ak-k, an I can make at morh money oet of him aa poarihler Hr mys: "How aeon can 1 make thU man wetlJ The aooorr the better Better for me; better for the petlent.* Neither doe* the hooest lawyer try to force hU client into litigation. He know* that often the beet way to aettir a legal dlffleulty la outside the court. Is

stead of toslde.

Practical illustration A man comes to his lawyer and mya: "I bare been

.ted and I want (&.UBI went yon to bring suit ' What dor* that honest Hr looks all over the de-

tails of the ease. Then. If be Is con artenHons, he mys to bis rilrot: “My friend, yon hare anfflclrnt grounds for

as yonr lawyer. 1 am

going to advise yon as I would my own son. Do no! get mixed np In this cam

The lawyers' fee#

may In the end coat more than yon ild make. Then there Is no telling what a Jnry may do. Yon might lose

tha reel go. It will he cheaper in the end That Is my advice. - TbU U the same kind of advice which John K. I'orter. for many yean the leader of the New York bar, once gave to my father. My father detetxnlaad on oue occasion to appeal to the coarts for rtadlratlan. He had ronclnrire **v dance to support hla case. He took this evidence to Mr. I'ortrr's office and

him. After reading IL John ronsclentlona lawyer.

lorneu ana mm: “Dr. Tahnagr. upon that evidenca I can win the'Ault for you. bnt I am going to tell yon what 1 told Horace Croc ley. who last week came an the as roe kind of aa errand and mt In the same chair on which you ace now sitting. Go home and mind yktir burineaa. You have a work to do life Is too abort for yon to a|>end any of that time Aglrtlng In a coon of law nnleas your work Is menaced - My^fa tber went honie. The salt was never

bfougkt-

‘ “But" my* aome young lawyer, “that may be all right for a well cuhllabed attorney like John K Portw to do. He bad all the huriuea* hr could carry He could afford In hi* position to torn down a Greeley. tint that Is not the Way a young man ran build up a prac Dee. It t* what lie dote In the court and not outride of It. that wb>* him fame •• No. my friend, you are wrong The public la not a* »tupid as yon

K. Porter, a

At~t

wbl«s*cring that you Sro trying clients out .d I rouble Instead of push Ing them In. you will have affrihe r|| eota you want. IMmly the history of Mayor Jone. of Toledo. <1. who has 1“*’ been re-elected for bt* fourth cnosrrutlve term He Is gamTally called “Golden Rule - June*. | knew nothing shoot Mr Joncri private Hfe. nothing .shoot hts politics, but this I do know the people, the ernirtoon people of th* city, battrve that Hr Janes I* that frtead ansi I* tryloffto helpfhasi a* fa as Is able to do Every ^wapaper l_ that rtty waa against him. I Hiring the

him. Barb-pcrty dldate Tel “Golden «ule -

<1 airily ahead

At thr public ballot

the common prop*, believed hr wa trying lo lighten Ibclr burden* Inatrai of getting then) Into deeper troablr What I* true la reference tn fiolltlr* I true In the lawyer - * office Otic of tin beat recommendation* s lawyer eat bare la that he alwaya ronarienDoorij awlfalthroUy make* hi* rlk-nt«' later r*t« Id* own.

The high principled I Ibe weak na well a* tl young graduate from a likely to tnke any ca«r bla way. It I* not no mu tkm of money a* of get lo do. He will spend over Uw rose of a pet been leilwimd In a bn suit. But a'fter awhile t

Ilia brain core great' rank of Ida suit? He e

eaae* Involving railroad aftorne;

ime* keener. Ids He stands In -tJ ifeaslnn. What I

My legal friend, now la yonr opportu nlty for heroic self mertfiro-. Do you know of a ea*e In which a (mor man It menaced with Injuattcr J Im you know of a roan who la charged with a crime of which be I* Innocent "r The glory yon win In championing bla e better to yon than a gl.nno.ono f great corporation* and the wealthy men have roscrv.d for thrfr aervl the strongvnt legal bralna of the co try. I aak. wlio are going to look a I

the I*

la of II

well a

roovleled and »<-nl to and tirrcbd In with a Inals he will become i

and the • front rank

You. with yi for her a re you Ut Ibal

afl»r the *ti

k>t of old ertm-

Uelples* In the m.

L and

glrwl skill la M be that tl sacrifice as i as the physic that, my ah

Beside* 9 know enty of

'nddeu' In the

- in att hall be ■one of

■ which temporal dc* ‘ li will only for a tl fry great la* tn unity In wl be may beer politic* and the reforms I

Some prop oppose tha office when grades his s| s embro politics to visit hath day. he Eplscutu rr one d Thomas DM under t llsb chancell duties of a •errd the i eel lor alway better when King of klm r* Christ al rill be Hi* u anxious to a spirit ns -Why? Hr

Christ. A lawyer la always more < tul of a ease If be think* tliat cm going to be approhd to a higher ii One mls^ati-ment In a brief or lack of the sworn testimony of a

be bfises of s More te Babmod in g part

d poti n K bW

ilati Jl have 1

What

a j.i

Wei

bitend to s|> “What tl»-n the law *e| make my id

known.

ouueuev ami ITnTrior.

pi-lied to bellere. Every ait. ever our earthly existence ma*t aome da. D- paasnl In ,r} ,l "' F"'*’ »'

I by Hie blond of J.-*u*. •I[>rd out. “The law la good If a man n»>- II lawfully.” ICopyritM. UGI. by Louts Klopsch ] QUEER - DISAPPEARANCES. “The most remarkable Instance of word* used by a dated ago when speaking of employed upon. It wa* not a hapbaxard expression, nor wo* It original, for It baa been used of many those who hare mysteriously disappeared. A report of the of police of London recently noted that rod women of that dty had ■rank out of alght of their friends In the year. Many peraons dlaappei cry year In New Y'ork dty. One of the cniu* of dlaappei a nee waa that of Lieutenant Edward W. Rcrocy of the navy, a brother of ‘ General WUUam Itemcy and Rear Admiral George itrmuy. The last aeen of him a vhen be walked down the gangpla if the steamship Roanoke In New York ity on Feb. 17. 1HS7. Every effort won nade to find him. but no trace wa* dll •overed. Had he Ixs-n a man of lrre» nlar habit* then- might have lieen aom •nspldon a* to the cause of bis disappearance. Iiut he waa a aotx-r. atralghtforward officer, and no officer had a etter record, stood higher In the provision or was more greatly esteemed. Another naval officer who disappear1 a few year* ago waa ex-I'aaaed Aaalatant Engineer Richard U. Bn* who had served In Die Mvl! with distinction. He started for BoaDec. 30. 1*0. after which n f him con Id be dlseorered. HI father was the Rev. Bamnel Buel. a i of tbr General Theologof New York. There are many who will recall Stflluro B. ConanL one of the editors of Harper's Weekly, who started from hla sanctum for hla home In Brooklyn on 1885. and though, search waa made for him In various parts of the Cnlted State* and Europe, where he reported to hare been seen, nothing a boat him has ever been learned. Thomas W. Fisher's disappearance lore than ten years ago attracted a great deal of Intercut. He waa a real estate broker In Washington, and. as usual custom, he one evening Baltimore to visit the young woman to whom be was engaged. The couple became Involved In a dispute matter, and the young woman declared their engagement off. Mr. Fisher left the house and. after wandering about the streets for some Dme. left Baltimore for New Y'ork. He his former fiancee, apologized for his rude roodnet and begged her forgive ness, but she waa bent upon punishing him and did not reply to hit letter. Fisher then left New Y'ork and went to Albany, from which place he wrote again to the young woman, saying tliat he would not burden her again with his petl1 that he Intended to commit The young woman then replied to his letter and asked hla forhot the letter waa returned with the stamp upon It. “Not found." and nothing haa been beard from the young man si nee that day. other -mysterious disappearre those of Dr. Blehard C. Bra nib-1*. William J. Phillip*, a tnetn- ' ' the Produce Kx<-hange; AlexanOakey. a frequent contrilmtnr to Harper's Weekly and Harper’* Mags and William M. Uapaljr. a well n artist and architect of SyraN. Y'.—New Y'ork Tribune.

The Calumet and Ilecla copper mine, escribed by Bamnel E. Moffett In Co* nwpolltaii. ha* lieen tin- moot profl

•t a mile. It goc* over 3JKSI feet below, the level of the *.-a The owner* of this mine have eaprrlally lucky; In Dot eneonnlerlng any great masses of pure copper.' nelgblnrlng mine waa almost has rupted by striking a chunk of II metal weighing «»•) or 7iai Iona was worth alartit tSmiUl. but It oot! neither Is- dug nor hla*hri and bad it away with cold rhlsels. r Indiana of the l.akr Bu|>erior

’But. my d'-sr liuatiand. It really I* Just of >ou to abuse matls-ra In-law

There are good one* -

•Well, wall; never mind. I haven't said anything against your* IF* only mine I'm grumbling about" Boston

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