Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1891-06-20
REV u K. TAIMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine's
Sunday Sermon.

TEXT. II wil sop to the north. Gireur.
ond to the south, keeD not toct Isaiah
x.lli.. =.
Just what ~ text meant By the north
rud e5otL / cannot "a but IN the Lnttei
STATE. the two words are - point blank II
their meaning that no on can 1olbt. They
mean NOR. than east atfl vest, 70. although
between tho-- last TWO there nave !t-@n rlv-
,lrIeS and disturbing ambition an I lnfallc.-
tie. and silver t.Ils ana World. falr contro,
VERSES, there have teen between them 10
lattrI.s uniim.er-I m Entertainments dug,
- long Inns ii >-;N;i,tfal mounds thrown
~. II has nrect ben Massachusetts, Four
tenth Regiment against Wisconsin
Icuate-: i has Aes.r ta-@n Virginia artll-
Ter against Ms,ls-Iptf rifles.
last ana ~e.t 81" distinct words. and
soinelinit= may mean diversity Of interest,
tut there Is no blood OH them. They can be
Pronounced Without amy lnfonaton II wall
ny and death eroau Put ,ne north AMI the
stuth are word .iat-n aNc been slrcharget
with tra@r.i,~. They ar. "ori9 which sug-
rr~t'hht tor forty year tn clouds hal been
gathering tor Il four Year, tempest which
thirty Years ago burst III 81 fury that shook
TIM, planet as it has never been sha6en since
1t swung out at the first wo.ld bull1inL. [
thank God thatthe words have lost some Of
II" j~nt@fp'ts which they possessed thr-- de-
raIe- az: that d vast multitude of northern
ieop.e have moved south, aud a vast multi
tude Of southern people have moved north,
AMI there have been lnteruIarrlageS BY the
ten thousand, and northern colonels have
married tISdaughters Of southern captains,
ana Texa0hger have united for life with
the daughters Of New Iork abClltioristS and
their children are half northern and half
southern and altogether patriotic.
But north and soltll are words that nee t
u be brought into still closer harmoniZation
| thought that now, when we are
halt N44y .a-iJartiI -
tons, and sectional auiinositieS are at
the lowest ebb; and now, Just after
ii presidential journey. when our chief mag
~lstrateS, who WAS chiefly elected by the north,
has been cordially received ut the south: and
now, just after two Memorial Days, one Of
them u month ago .trewiug flowers on south,
trn graves, and the ether yesterday strewins
flowers on northern graves, it might be APP
Iropfiate ana useful tor me to preach a SER
mon which would twist two ~garlands-one
for tho northern dead and the other for tho
foIthern deid-and have the two interlocked
III Il cham Of flowers that shall bind forever
the two sections INTO one; and who knows
hut that this may be the day when the
prophecy Of the text made in regard to the
anclenta may be fulfilled in regard to this
country, and the North give up its p%reiudices
and the south keep not back its confdence2
II Will say to the north, Give up, and to the
south, Keep not back.
Int before ] put these earlands on tho
graves | mean 10 put them this morning q
little while ON the brows of the living men
ana women of the north and south who lost
husbands and sons and brothers during the
GNll strife. There is nothing more soothing
10 II wound than a cool bandage, and these
two @%aflandS are cool from the night dew.
What q morning that was on the banks Of
the Hudson and the Savannah when the son
was - start for the war; What fatherly
and motlerly counsel! What tearsi What
ntaribrcakal What charges to write home
olttnl. w hat little k"apsakes put away in
the knapsach, or the bundle that was to ba
exchanged for the knapsacki The crowd
around the depot or the steamboat landing
shouted, but father and mother and sister
cried.
And how lonely the house seemed after
they went home, and what an awfully va
cant chalrthere was at the Christmas and
thanksgiving tablet And after the battle.
what waiting for ncwsl What suspense till
the long lists OF the killed and woundea vera
made OUT All along the P~enobscot, and the
Connecticut, and the st. Lawrence, and the
mo, and the Oregon, and the James. and
the Alheinarle, and the Alabama, and the
Mississippi, and the SACRAMENTO there. were
jannentation and mourning and great woe.
f<acilel weeping for her children, and refus-
ing to be comforted because they were not.
he world has forgotten it, but father and
mother hayenot forgotten it. They NAV be
now III the eighties or nineties, but it is a
fresh wound, and will ALWAYS renaina fresh
wound.
Have you realized the fact that our civil
var pitched out upon the farmtialls of tho
norlh anu the plantations of the south a
multitude that no man can number chill
dren without fatherly help and prot-.tion3
oidef all the advantages which we had If
I~atherly guidance, what 4 struggle life has
peeh To The most of us But what of tina
chlldrei, two ana five and tea wears of ora
VINO stood at their mothers lap with ereat
round wondering cye>, hearing her read Of
tnoSe VINO perlshet III the Battle Of tha
wilderness, their fathers gone down s,nonr
'he itAd hosi5 Come Young men and
Women, wholly Stlctl disaster nave had 4,
! HitNt Your v way III iltp, and | Will nut
"a Garidlll on NolI Young and unWrInial
prov. 9, You have had vuur own Malvern
'lil, ana Your own South Mountains ana
Your own Hettt >tutC All along these twenty
year. Come. And, II cannot snare :.
"ioi, garland i"l< N.1nr brow, | VIII twist in
your locks AZ least two flowers. one crIn,-
son anu onh whit, thecrim>Dn for tIfn >tr,-
gre 9t Your NE, winch has almost amaun+o,
I" carnage, ANA the white fer tn. victar,
you Ht}r -a.n-t.
Before | put thu tvo car,an Is 7 am twis.
IN upon thu northern ani south I'm tomb.
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