The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-06-05
GARLANDS FOR HEROES.
a Decoration Day Sermon By Rev.
T. Dewitt TaImage.
-Garlands For All the Dead, both NORTH.
and SOuth-HOn0rs Due to Both Sides
No Time For SectIOnaIis1n
Now


appropriate sermon at Brooklyn. His
subject was: 1.-Two Garlands for North
-ern and Southern Graves" Over the
pulpit were two wreaths OF beautiful
flowers, and they were linked together
so that they were an object lesson of
the subject presented His text was
from Isaiah 4s, @: ST will say to the
North. Give up, and to the South, Keep
not back" DR.. Talmage said:
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, for although between
those two last there have been rivalries
and disturbing ambitions and infelici-
ties and silver bills and worlds fair
controversies, there have been between
them no batteries unlim bered, no en-
Grenchments dug. no long lines of
ssepulchra1 mounds thrown up. It has
never been Massachusetts, fourteenth
regiment against Wisconsin zouaves; it
has never been Virginia artillery
against Mississippi rifles. East and
west are distinct words and some
times may mean diversity of in
terest, but there is no blood
them. They can be produced without
any intOnation 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 a four years
tempest which thirty years ago burst in
a fury that shook this planet as it has
never been shaken since it swung out
at the first world building. 1 thank
God that the words have lost some of
the intensity which they possessed
three decades ago; that a vast multitude
of northern people have moved south
nd ST ny1ff Ia If q
have moved north and there have been
1ntermarriages by the 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 abolition
lists, and their children are half northern
and half southern and altogether patri-
otto.
But north and south are words that
need to be brought into still closer har-
monization. 7 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 flow
-ers on northern graves, 1t might be ap-
propriate and useful for me to preach 8
sermon which would twist two gar
lands, one for the northern dead and
the other for the southern dead, and
have the two interloclzed 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 IL
regard to this country and the nOrtI
- -
keep not back its confidence. AZ vii
say to the north, give up. and to the
south, keep not back. :"
But before put these garlands OF
the graves, I mean to put them thi.
morning little while on the brOvs O.
the living men and women of the nortI
and south who lost husbands and son,
and brothers during the civil strife
There is nothing more soothing to
wound than a cool bandage, and these
two garlands are cool from the nigh
dew. What morning that was on the
banks of the Hudson and tho Savannah
when the son was to start for the war
What fatherly and motherly counsel
What tearsl What heart brealzsi VIVA
charges to write home often! What lit
tie keepsalxes put away in the KNAPP
sack or the bundle that was to be ex
changed for the knapsaclz! The GROVE
around the depot or steamboat landing
7ShouIcNs buS AoeA1oA eSAlS- @-AOIAACA anu SIS
ter cried And how lonely the hous
seemed after they went home and vvha
an awfully vacant chair tAere was a
the Christmas and Thanks swing table
And after the battle. what waiting 70
newsi What suspense until the lon
lists of the killed and wounded wer
made out.
All along the Penobscot and the Con
necticut and the St Lawrence and tn
Ohio and the Oregon and the James an
the Albemarle and the Alabama an
the Mississippi and the Sacrament
there were lament&tiOn and mourning
and great woe. Rachel weeping for he
children and refusing to be comfortS
because they were not
The world has forgotten it. but fathe
and mother have not forgotten il
They may be now in the eighties O
the nineties, but it is a fresh woun
and will always remain q fresh wound