Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-06-12
REV. DR.. TAlMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S Sun.
DAY SERMON.
SUBJECT: Two GARLANDs."

their meaning that no one can doubt They
mean more than east and west, for althouyh
between those last two there nave bsen riy-
alries and disturbing ambitions aud infeIic :
ties and silver bills and Worlds fair contro-
versies, there have been between them no
batteries unllmbered. no intrenchments dug.
no long lines OF sepuChral mounds thrown
up. 1t has never beeu Massachusetts, Four
teenth Regiment against Wisconsin
Zouaves; 1t has never been Virginia artil-
lery against Mississippi rifles.
East and west are distinct words and
sometimes may Tcan diversity of interest.
but there is no bloo,. on them. They can be-
pronounced without any intonation Of wall.
ing and death groaA. But the north and the
south are words that have been surchargel
with tragedies. They are words which sur-
gest that for forty years tn" clouds had been
gathering for four year, tempest which
thirty years ago burst in fury that shook
this planet As It has never been shaken since
it swung ont at the first world building. !
thank God that the words have lost some OF
the intensity which they possessed three de-
cades age; that vast multitude of northern
people have moved south, and vast multi.
tude of southern People have moved north.
and there have been lntermarriages by the
ten thuu-anj, AMI northern colonies nave
married the daughters OF southern captains
and Texas rangers have united for life with
the daughters of New York abolitionistg. AMI
their children are half northern aud half
southern and altogether patriotic
but north and south are words thasGcel
to Se brought into Stlll closer harmon:zltion,
thought that now, when we are
half way between presidential eec.
tions, and sectional rnimoaiticS are at
the lowest rlh; aud now. ,ust after
n presidential! journey. when our chief mag
lstratc>, who was chiefly elected hy the north.
mas bt' II cordially received at the south; and
now, Just after two Memorial Davs, one Of
them a month ago strewing flowers on south.
crn graves, and the other yesterday StrewIng
flowers on northern graves, 1t might be ap'
propriate and useful tor me 10 preach ser.
mon which would twist two garlands-one
Tor the northern dead and the other for the
southern dead-and have the two interlocke1
IN chain Of flowers that shall bind forever
thr TWO sections INTO one, and who knows
Tut that this may be the day when the
prophecy ot the text made in regard b. the
AnCientS may be fulfilled in regard 10 this
country, ana the north gIveup its preiudices
and the Sonth keep not back its conf lence?
Il VIII say to the north, Give up, and 10 the
south, Keep not bacS
But before | put these garlands on the
"A
little while on the browS Of the hvin- men
rni women OF the north and south VINO lost
husbands aud sons and brothers during the
civiI strife. There is nothing more soothing
to wound than cool handaSe, aud these
TWO garlands are cool from the night dew.
hat morning that was on the banks OF
IN" Hudson and the Savannah when the son
was 10 start for the war What fatherlv
and mothrrv counsel What tears, What
h'artbreakS What charges To write home
often Nrat little keepSaEes put away IN
The knapsack, or thu bundle that was to be
exchanged for the knapsackl The crow /
around the depot or the ~teamboa: landing
shouted, but father and mother and sister
cried
And how lonely the house seemed after
cant chair there was at the CHRISTMAS and
Thanksgiving tablet And after the battle
what waiting for news! What suspense till
the long lists Of the killed and wounded were
made cut. All along the PenobScot, and the
'onntcticut, and the St Lawrence, and the
ONO, and the Oregon. and the James, and
tue Albemarl". and the Alabama, and the
Mississippi, and the Sacramento there were
lamentatlon and mourning and great woe.
Rachel weeping for her children, and refu~-
ng to be comfortel because they were not.
The world has forgotten IT, but father and
mother have not forgotten IT. They NAV bs
now IN the eighties or nineties, but it is
fresh wound, and will always remaina fresh
wound
Have YOU realized the fact that our civil
var pitched ont upon the farmfe!ds OF thu
north and tine plantations OF the south a
multitude that no man can number, chill.
iren without iathcrly help and protSct on
/ nder ali the advantages which We had of
tatheriy guidance, wnat a struggle life has
been to the most Of us But wnat OF the
children, two ant five aud ten years of age,
who stood at their mothers lap with great.
round, wondering eyes, hearing her read o.
tu"se VINO perishei IN the Battle OF tls
W ldeiness, their fathers gone down among
the utau hosE Come young men and
women, who by such disaster nave had TO
make y our own way in lite and | will put
the garland on your Young and unwrln iIei
brow. Gts: YOU have had your own Malvern
HIll, and Nou own South Mountain, and
y,ur own Gettysburg all along these twenty
wears. Come! And, II | cannot spare n
w"ole garland for YOUR brow, | VIII twist in
your ,o"k- at least two howers, one crm-
sou and one white, the crimson tor the Strug-
gle CT your life, wnlCn has almost amounted
to carnage, ant the wrte for the victory
YOU have gained.
Before put the two garianis 7 am twist
Ing upon the northern and southern tomb,
detain the garlands little while that
may put them upon the brow of the Twin :
soldiers aud sailors OF the north and south
who, though at variance for long while.
ara now at ps1ce and in hearty LOYALTY to
the United States government ami rsaiy.
IL nee1 be, to march shoulder u shoulder
against any foreign foe. The twantv.siS
winters that have passed since the war
think, have sufficiently coolei thu hatre |,
that oncs burned norttward and south
wari TO allow the remark that they wh1
fought in that conflict were non,s on b,th
sides. The chapllins on both ar ME, W ,re
honest in their prayers. Ths faces that
went into hattie whether they marchs | TO "
ard the Gult OF Mexico or msrcisi towlrl
the north star, we're honest faces
lt Is too much to ask eithsr 81 lie to balieya
that those who came out from their homes
torsaking father ani mother AMI wife an /
child, many OF them n9ver to return, w,r,
not in earnest when they put their life int,
awful exigency. Witness the last scena a.,
family prayers up among II, Gresn mJllt.
ANS or down by tae fields of cotton an |
sugar cane. Men do nos sacrifice their all
'or tun Men do not elt moldy brolt or q
without breat at all for fun. Msu do not
.~'P uH'HS''o' % III = IuluJSJthl storms Tor
tun.
As chaplain OF a P9nr;ylvauia regiment
md as representative of the Unit,i Stlt,,
Christian Commission, was for a while at
the front, ami in thoss HOSPITALS at Ha yer.-
town and Williamsburg an | up AMI down
the Potamac, whers all thl clurcles an /
tarm-houses were filled WITH w0undsi an
dying Fe1erals an C)nte leratsS, forgot
amid the horrors b ass on wllcl sile they
fought, when with what little all c1ult
take them tor their suffering b)iiss an 1 the
mightier aid | couli pray for their souls,
passed the days AMI months amid scsne
that in my memory seem like ghastl,
dream rather than a possible reality.
When a New Orleans boy, unable to an
swer my question as to where hs was hurt
took out from the folds of the only carmen
that had not been torn Off him in the battl
a New Testament, marke with his own III
blood, and saw the leaf turned down at th
passage my peace give unto You, not a
the world giveth give unto You, it rea
Just as though it hal bssl northern Ne
Testament. And when | sat down and too
from South Carolinian dying in barn a