Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1891-06-11
lkE DIR. TAL4MAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINEs SUNDAY
SERMON.
Subject: 1.-THE GarIands.n

and to The soIld. Keep not dack.a--Isaiah
xiii, 6.
Just what my text s1eant by the north
and south cannot say, but in the JnitaI
States the Two words are so point blank. in
their meaning that no one can doubt. They
mean more than east and west, for ALTHOUGH
between those last two there have bear riy-
alries and disturbing ambitions and infalic;.
ties and silver bills and Worlds fair copt,.o-
VERSES, there have been between them no
batteries uniimhered, no intrenchsnents dino
no long lines of sepulchra mounds thrown
up. II has never been Massachusetts Four
Leenth Regiment against Wisconsin
,Zouaves; u has never been Virginia artil-
lery against Mississippi rifles.
East ami west are distinct words and
sometimes may mean diversity of interest
but there is no blood on them They can be
pronounced without any information of wall
ing and death groan But the north and ths
sCuth are words that have been surcherped
with tragedies. They are words which s,Ig
gest that Tor forty years the clouds had been
gathering for four years TEMPEST which
thirty years ago burst in fury that shook
inns planet as it has never been shaken since
" swung out at the first world building. |
thank Tod That the words have lost some of
the intensity which they possessed three de
cades ago; that q vast multitude of northern
people nave moved south, and a vast multi
tuue OF southern people have moved north,
>shd tfssre have been intermarriaees by the
ten thousand, and northern colonies have
married the daughters of southern captains.
and texas rangers have united for life with
Tue daughters of New Y ork abolitionists and
Their children ore half northern and half
southern and altogether patriotic.
But north and south are words that need
70 pe brought INTO still closer harmonization.
thought that now, when we ara
half way bstween presidential cleo
tons, and sectional animosities are eft
the lowest ebb; and now, lust after
presidential journey, when our chief mag
1sfrates, who was chiefly elected by the NORTH
has been cordially received at the south and
now, just after TWO Memorial DAYS one Of
Them month ago strewing flowers on south
ern graves, and the other yesterday strewine
flowers on northern graves it might be an.
propriate and useful for me to preach n ser.
mon which would twist two garlands--one
Tor the northern dead and the other for the
southern dead~-and have the two interlocked
~ chaln OF bowers that shall bind forever
the two sections into one: and who knows
but that this may DO the day when tho
prophecy OF the text made in regard to the
ancients may be fulfilled i'm regard to this
country, and the north give up its preiudices
and the south keep not back its confidencep
WIN say TO the north, Give up, and to the
south. Keep not back
., But before put these garlands on the
graves mean to put them this moruinp n
little while on the brows of the living men
and women of the north and sn,,th VIC gnst
husbands and sons and brothers during the
civil strife. There is nothing more soothing
70 a wound than cool bandage and these
Two gariands are cool from the night dew,
& W. nat morning that was on the banks of
the Hudson and the Savannah when the son
was to start for the wari What fatherlv
ana motheIiy counsel What tears What
heartbreak | What charges to write home
ottenl What little keepsakes put away in
the knapssck, or the bundle that was to be
exchanged for the knapsack The crowd
Ground the depotor the steamboat landing
shouted but father and mother and sister
cried.
And how lonely the house seemed after
they went home, and what an awfulv va
cant chair there was at the Christmas and
thanksgiving tablet And after the hattie
what waiting for news! What suspense iii
the long lists Of the killed and wounded were
made outl All along the Penobscot. ana tbe
Connecticut, and the st Lawrence. and the
Ohio, and the Oregon, and the james and
the Albemarle, and the Alabama. and the
Mississippi and the Sacramento there wera
la,nentation aud mourning and great woe os
Z; weeping for her children, and refus-
ny, my ~ ~ coihiofteu because they were not
: ~ Woilo mas forgotten IT, but father and
>.s: -: 40 2 MY iorsoiten u. lney may DO
NV NV ~ tiie elghties or nineties, but it is a
fresh fresh wound, ana VIII always remaina fresh
"1vno
nave you realized the fact that our civil
waI pitcneu out upon the farmfields OF the
NORM ana me Plantations Of the south a
tsnuitIude That no man can number, chill
Trsn witnout iatherly help and protect ong
CnueE az tne advantages which We had OF
,tatneriy Guidance, what's struggle life has
peen 70 me most OF usI But what of the
S ..... Two ann I'VE and ten years OF age,
49,. s',ou a. tneif ihothefs zap with great,
soenu' MohuerLng eyes nearing her read of
s ys5?ss wuo perisned III Inc Battle OF the
az Saas sne'r fathers gone down among
~ ss1u aioS's young men ana
wei.1ps Wy ~ sucn suisasuer nave mad 10
sisane yi' 49, own way IN NE, and VIII put
49, W. ~ yonk young anu unwrinsied
III, ~. -, ~ t,nu your own malvern
~,<,,,. ,e.,., 49, s'vuou uouii.aii' ana
S,ss..s 800 slss III aiong THESE twenty
$500 ~ sAnu, = canhoI spare
,r,, "9 49, - I'LL ~ your paow VIII 1wlse IN
~. "a =. '.ss;t Swo moMe's, one crln-
"a ~ 1911. ny crimson ior ene strug
81 ~. III, s Has afiost aniountel
- = - = - IS -
netoHM4 put the two garlanls am twist
!n$ upQo fae northern aud southern tombs,
uetsln tne garlands q little while that
may 1s tnem upon the brow OF the living
~. sno sailors OF the north and south,
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