Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-06-05
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
REV. DR.. TAyMAGE'S SERMON FOR
MEMORIAL DAY.

! ct WIN Say to the North, Give Up, and
/ to the south. Keep Not Back''-Isaiaii
xiii. c. the Text a Notable Dis.
course.
BROOKLYN, May 31.-Yesterday having
been observed as Decoration Day, DR. Tai
mage this morning preached an appropri-
ate sermon. 1t was novel and unprece-
dented service, as in different parts of the
audience were many Of those who had be-
longed to both Federal and Confederate
armies the subject having been previously
announced. namely. 1.-Two Garlands for
Northern and Southern Graves" Over the
pulpit were two wreaths of beautiful
flowers, and they were linked together, so
that they We're an object lesson for the sub
iect presented Text: isaiah xiii, CT
will say to the north, Give up and to the
south, Keep not hack,"
Just what my text meant by the north
and south cannot say, but in the United
States the two words are so point blank in
their meaning that no one can doubt
They mean more than east and west, foI
although between those last two there
have been rivalries and disturbing ambi
tions and iafelicities and silver bills and
between them no batteries unlimbered, no
intrenchments dug, no long lines Of sepul
chral mounds thrown up 1t has never
been Massachusetts Fourteenth regiment
against Wisconsin zouaves; it has never
been Virginia artillery against Mississippi
rifles
Fast and 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
wailing and death groan. But the north
and the south are words that have been
surcharged with tragedies. They are
words which suggest that for forty years
the clouds had been gathering for four
years tempest, which thirty years ago
burst in a fury that shook this planet rs it
has never been shaken since it swung out
fat the first world building. | thank God
that the words have lost some of the in
tensity which they possessed three decades
ago; that a vast multitude of northern
people have moved south, and vast null
titude of southern people have moved
north and there have been internarriages
blythe ten Thousand, and northern colonies
have married the daughters Of southern
captains, and Texas rangers have united
for life with the daughters of New York
abolitionists, and their children are half
northern and half southern and altogether
patriotic.
/ But north and south are words that need
to be brought into still closer harmouiza-
zion thought that now, when we are
half way between presidential elections,
and sectional animosities are at the lowest
ebb and now, just after a presidential
Journey, when our chief magistrate, who
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, strewing flowers on southern
graves, and the other yesterday strewing
flowers on northern graves it might be ap-
propriate and useful for me to preach
Sermon which would twist two garlands,
one for the northern dead and the other
for the southern dead, and have the two
interlocked in a chain of flowers that shall
bind forever the two sections into one; and
who knows but that this may be the day
when the prophecy of the text made in re-
gard to the ancients may be fulfilled in re
gard to this country, and the north give
up its preiudices and the south keep not
back its condolences? Il will say to the
north, Give up. and to the south, Keep not
back -