Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-06-01
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
eEv. Or TsLMAGE's SERMON FOR
MEMORIAL DAY.


Il WI Say - sAs North. Give up. sad
10 tas s~ssA. Keep Mes bssk''-fs~l>a
xtiil q. the Ts4s - A Hss>sls Dss-
s~~rss
bsooxLts. NAY H-YGssrsfsy hsvfng
been observed - Decoration Day. Dr. Tai
mage us norning preached an appropsf-
ate seruson- ls wa a n0vel and unproce-
aeatec ssrvtcs. a. Ia dlffereng psrts OF Ghs
audiences were mAay OF those ~ a. lad be
.ou<ed - both F.sisra4 aud Coaisder2ta
armies. the subiecI haFlng been previously
zaao1need, namely Two Gzriansts Zoe
SorIaeEn and Southern oSages-" Over the
puiplI were two wreaJhs OF beautiful
flowers. and they were hnkef together 50
saLl they were al oeIecE lesson for the sub
lect pFssen5-sL Ie@t isaiah KIM, e-''I
viii cay 20 Eae n9rla. GO up. and To the
south, Keep not back.
Just " AaI my Jexr meant by the north
and south ezasot say but In the L mixed
States the Two words are ID point BLANK inI
their meaning IaAL no one can Doubt
They useta more than east and west. fot
although between those last two there
have been rivairies and disturbing ambi
IiOns aEi infcheities aud silver bills and
Worlds fair Controversies. there have boeA
bet seen them DO batteries numbered. MP
Entertainments dug no long lines OF sepul
ekFai mounds thrown up. IL has newer
been AAssac nQseGts Fourteenth regiment
against Wisconsin xooayers, it has never
been Virginia artillery against Mississippi
ElfeS
East aud west arc distiacs words and
ppmetimes may mean diversity OF interest
s1t there Is no blood GA them They cab
DO pronounced without any information "
w.ihng ana death grosn Bat the north
fnd the south ara words that have beeh
surcilarged with tragedies They arp
woFess which suggest that FOR forty years
the clouds had Deea gathering for a four
wears tempest, which thirty years ago
burst in a FAIRY that shook this planet a. is
has never been shaken since IL swung out
at the first world buiiding. thank God
that tire words have lost soma OF the in
Ieasity which they possessed three decades
ago. that vast multitude OF northern
people nave movea south. and a vast mui-
tltuds OF southern people have moved
north. and there nave been intermarriagcs
DY tns Ten thousand. aad northern colonels
have married the daughters OF southern
Captains. and Texas rangers have united
for hie VITA the cssShten OF New York
aD0utI lnists and their children are half
northern and half southern aud altogether
patriotic.
But north and south are words that need
10 he Drouc. at into still closer harnoniza-
zion. thought that now, when we arc
half way between presidential elections,
and sectional animosiries are Ut the lowest
rbb and now. just after a presidential
ell If hr.
WAS chiefly elected by the north. has been
cordially received at the south. and now.
just after TWO Memorial Days one of them
a month ago. s,reyiug flowers on southern
graves. and the other yesterday. strewins
flowers on northern graves. it might oe up
propriate and useful for me 20 preach q
sermon which would twist two gariands.
one foe the northern dead and the other
for the southern dead. and have the two
interiockesi In a chain OF flowers that shal.
bind forever tSe two sections into one; and
VITO knows bat that this may be the day
when the prophecy OF the text made in re
gard To the ancieDts may De fulfilled In TO
gard TO this country, aud the north give
up It's prejudices and the south keep not
back it, contideuce' Il will say to the
north, Give ~. and to the south, Keep not
back"
GARLAyDs OK LIVING BROwS
But before put these garlauds on the
graves mean TO put them this morning
a little while on the brows Of the living
men aud women OF the norm and south
who lost husbands and sons and brothers
during the civil strife. There is nothing
more soothing 10 a wound than cool
baadage. and these two garlands are cool
from the night dew What a morning
that was on the banks of the Hudson and
the Savannah when the son was to start
for tie war; What fatherly and motherly
counsell What tears What heartbreaksi
What charges TO write home oftenl What
little seepsakes put away in the knapsack.
or the bundle that was TO be exchanged for
the knapsacki The crowd around the de-
rot or the steambo boat landing shouted. 0u:
father and mother and sister cried
And how lonely the house seemed after
they weat home. and what an awfully va
cant chair there was at the Christmas and
Thanksgiving table. And after the hattie.
what waiting FOR news, What suspense
till the long lists Of the killed and VOC nded
were made Quit All along the Penobscot,
and the Connecticut. and the St. Lawrence,
aud the Ohio. and the Oregon. and the
James, and tae Aloemarie. and the Ala
bama, and the Mississippi, and the Sacra-
mento there were lamentation and mourn
lag and great woe Rachel weeping for her
children, and refusing to be comforted be
causs they were not The world has for
gotten IL. but father and mother have not
forgotten t. They may be now in the
eighties or the uinetics, but 10 Is a fresh
wound. and will always remain a fresh
wound.
Coming down the steep OF years the
hands that would have steadied those
t0ttering steps have been twenty ght
years folded into the last sleep. The
chiidishaess, the widowhood the or
phanaCs. who has = measuring line
long enough 20 tell the height OF IL. the
depth OF It, the infnity OF III What
mountain, what an Alps. what a Hima-
lava Of piled M agony OF bereavsment in
the simple statements that three hundred
thousand mea OF the north were slain and
Eve hundred thousand men Of the south
were sisin. and hundreds Of thousands
long afterwsrti. through the eXhaUstions
there suffered. going down 70 DEATH
UNPROTECTED CHILDREN.
ietsin from the TOP OF the tomb these
two garsands that / sus twisting for lit
tie while that / may with them soothe the
brow Of tbs living. Over the fallen toe
people said. Poor fellow What a pity
thss be should have been struck DOWN.
We did not, however. often enough say'
"PoOr fssheri psov naotssrl Poor wife
Poor chiidf' and SC | say II Dow. Have
you realized that ~ that wholesale massa-
ere hundr@ds 81 thousands q young people
&C the north sad ta> south have never mad
any chances We who are faEbers stand