The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1889-05-08
The Washington Light Artillery and the
Richmond CYa.) Grays Attend Services
at the Brooklyn Tabernacle-0ur
Zone and Our Country.

line. A great crowd followed them from the
armory door down TO the tabernacle, where
a still greater throng surged about the
doors and hundreds turned away unable
TO gain admittance. The body of the
auditorium was reserved for the soldiers,
the field and staff and commissioned Off
GERS of Col. Austen's command. and the
Washington light infantry occupying the
center pews in front The pulpit was
decked with the national and regimental
colors. Mayor Chaplin, escorted by sew
eral officers, entered the church at the
head of the procession. The militia-men
remained standing until the last of their
number had reached their places, and then
atthe command given by Col. Austen, bat
talon, attention be seated, all sat down
at once. There were nearly six thousand
persons in the building, including the
Richmond Grays of Virginia, and many
soldiers from all parts of the country.
Chaplain Talmage appeared in full uni
form. He announced MY Country, It's
of Thee" for the opening hymn, which
was sung with enormous effect The
chaplain selected as his text the following
passage:
We were binding sheaves in the field. and 10,
my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and,
behold, your sheaves stood round about, and
made obeisanee to my sheaf.-Genesis xxxvii, !.
In the early part OF his serman DR.. Tai
mage said:
Comrades Of the Thirteenth regiment
sf the National guard and our welcome
guests of the Washington light infantry
and also the welcome Richmond Grays of
Virginia here present-You are with
others the appointed defenders of our ma
ton. Is it worth while? Is that which
YOU protect of enough influence to de-
mand all this time and expense, these
prolonged drills, and, if need be, the ex-
posture to peril? Aye. ! shall show you
that you are set for the defense of the
grandest nation and the best institutions
on the round earth, and that all other ma
tiOnal properties must bow to our pros
perity. the Italian sheaf, the British sheaf,
the Spanish sheaf and the French sheaf,
and all the other sheaves must bow to our
American sheaf.
The sermon showed graphically that of
the two continents the Western is the
more favored; that the zones the temper
ate is the most desirable and that the
United States forms the best part of the
American continent. Among other things
he said:
Soldiers, of such a nation, so free, so
grand, so glorious, YOU are the sworn de-
tenders. May there be no use for your
sword or musket, except such use as YOU
will be called this week to make of them
In holiday commemOratiOn. But be not
deceived. IL may not always be so pros
porous. III il work righteousness our gov
eminent will live. If it forsake God and
the right it will perish. Some govern
ments have celebrated their fourth and
fifth centennial and yet vanished. There
has been great mortality among republics
and monarchies. Some of them were as
sasslnated and some destroyed by their
own hand. Let me call the roll of some
OF the dead civilizations and some of
the dead cities. Babylon Answer! A
city five times larger than London
and twelve times larger than New York.
Walls 373 feet high and 90 feet thick
Twenty-Five FURNISHED gates on each side,
with streets running clear through to
corresponding gates on the other side. A
city of baZars and OF market places, I'M
rivaled for arOmatics and unguents and
high-mettled horses with groOms by their
side, and thyme wood and African ever
greens and Egyptian linen and all STYLES
OF costly textile fabric and rarest puppies,
extracted from the shell fish on the
Mediterranean coast, and rarest scarlets
taken from brilliant insects in Spain, and
ivories brought from successful elephantine
hunts in India; and diamonds whose flash
was repartee TO the sun. Fortress with
in fortress, embattlement rising
above embattlement. Great capital
of the ages. But one night, while
honest citizens were asleep, but all the
saloons of Saturnalia were in full
blast, and at the kings castle they had
filed the tankards for the tenth time and
Keeling and guffawing and hiccoughing
around the state table were the rulers of
the land, Gen. Cyrus ordered his besieg-
ing army 10 take shovels and spades, and
they diverted the river from It's usual
channel into another direction so that the
fOrsaken bed of the river became the path
on which the besieging army entered.
When the morning dawned the conquer
ors were inside the outside trenches.
Babylon has fallen. Egyptian civilization,
stand up. Dead J" answer the ruins of
Karnac and Luxor, and from seventy
pyramids on the east side Of the Nile
there comes up a great chorus, crying,
Dead, dead - Assyrian empire,
stand up and answer 'Deadw cry
the charred ruins of Nineveh. After
600 years of magnificent opportunity,
dead. Israelitish kingdom, stand up.
After $50 years OF divine interposition
and of miraculous vicissitude and of
heroic behavior and of appalling deprav-
ity, dead. Phenicia, stand up and answer.
After inventing the alphabet and giving il
10 the world, and sending out her mer-
chant caravans in one direction to Central
Asia, and sending out her navigators to
the Atlantic ocean IN another direction,
dead. Pillars of Hercules and rocks on
which the Tyrian fishermen dried their
nets, all answer, "Dead Phenica."
Athens. after Phidias, after Demosthenes,
after Miltiades, dead. Sparta, after Leon
idas, after Eurypides, after Salamis, after
ThermOpyle, dead. Roman empire. stand
mp and answer. Empire once bounded by
the British channel on the north, by the
Euphrates on the east, by the great Sahara
desert in Africa on the south, by the At
lantic ocean on the west. Home of three
great civilizations. owning all the then
discovered world that was worth owning
Roman empire, answer. Gibbons, IN his
'Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire"
says "Deadp and the forsaken seats of
the ruined Coliseum, and the skeleton of
the aqueducts and the miasma of the
Campagna, and the fragments of the mar
bic baths, and the useless piers of the
Bridge Triumphalis and the Mamartine
prison, holding no more apostolic prison
ers, and the silent Forum, and Basilica OF
Constantine and the arch of Titus, and
the Pantheon come in with great chorus,