Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-06-05
Frs FOR BOTH.
,r MEMORIAL SERVICE
NooxLYN TABERNACLE.

pr.,cl,es Sermon About the
1a'' =, the Civil War, and Offers a
dle' the North and One for the
,land 'or '''
u,r.
,,.t.,orc's sermon, last Sunday,
III, following text:
u a., lii I'd will say to the North,
a'&', A-'. and to the South, Keep not
,.,,,t NV text meant by the North
rs viz" ~ Irunnot say, but in the United
Two words arc 81 point blank
=, ,aca,lins that no one can doubt.
l'I ' ',' more than East and West, for
D between those last two there
'y y-", riyalries and disturbing ambi-
;rfelicities and silver bills and
=, r'', rair controversies, there have
5,.vre, them ITO batteries unlim-
,a' iulrcuchmcnts dug, no long
% .eu1,lrhral mounds thrown up.
,.syrf been Massachusetts Four
cement against Wisconsin Zou-
:. las never been Virginia artillery
/
h.. Mississippi rifles.
' -. aud West are distinct words, and
.,"as may mean diversity OF inter-
~. .:,src is no blood on them. They
g a., ,roncunccd without any intona-
wailins and death groan. But
yo,t,, and the South are words that
t.cn sGrchargcd with tragedies.
are words which suggest that for
vars the clouds had been gather
tsr four years tempest which
~ years ago burst in fury that
i. .st. planet as it has never been
Ia, since it swung out at the first
Id bG!lding.
Hank God that the words have lost
q Of the intensity which they pos
/ ID ,hrec decades ago; that q vast
.;-l,de of Southern people have moved
Fl and there have been intermar-
r., Nv the ten thousand, and Northern
frrl, have married the daughters of
{tbern captains, and Texas rangers
{ united for life with the daughters
New York abolitionists, and their
{lryn are half Northern and half
,hem and altogether patriotic. But
ttl and South are words that need to
Brought into still closer harmoniza-
thought that now, when we are half
] between presidential elections, and
tionaI animosities are at lowest'ebb,
now Just after q presidential jour-
when our chief magistrate, who was
Efy elected by the North, has been
dally received at the South; and now,
after two Memorial DAYS, one of
b. month ago, strewing flowers on
tlern graves. and the other yestcr-
strewing flowers on Northern
yes, it might be appropriate and use
for me to preach sermon which
bid twist two garlands, one for the
tthcm dead and the other for the
|thern dead, and have the two inter-
Eei in chain of flowers that shall
forever the two sections into one;
Who knows but that this may be the
vaen the prophecy of the text made
ygard to the ancients may be fulfilled
card to this country, and the North
eap its prejudices and the South
grot back it's confidence. 81 will
athc North, Give up, and to the
Keep not back"
Smfore put these garlands on the
hlmean to put them this morning
EefThile on the brows of the living
stGN women OF the North and South
g0st husbands and sons and brothers
Fls tie civil strife. There is nothing
|NsoothiEg to u wound than a cool
Eda:e, and these two garlands are cool
|niAe night dew. What morning
Etwas Oh the banks of the Hudson
1.-THE Savannah when the son was to
!tior the war! What fatherly and
therly counsel! What tears! What
ttbreaks! What charges to write
+ NE often. What little keepsakes put
fay III the knapsack!
The crowd around the depot or the
fam0oat landing shouted, but father
ftAer and sister cried. And how lonely
house seemed after they went home,
what an awfully vacant chair there
sat the Christmas and Thanksgiving
Pc And after the battle, what wait
eior news! What suspense till the
g lists OF the killed and wounded were
fae out. All along the Penobscot, and
Connecticut, and the st. Lawrence,
\ the Ohio, and the Oregon. and the
mes, and the Albemarle, and the Ala.
'aa' and the Mississippi, and the Sac.
fleNto, there We're lamentation and
RNFAlng and great woe, Rachel weep.
Tor her children, and refusing to be
Falor'ett because they were not. The
fia has forgotten it, but father and
|tief nave not forgotten it. They may
now in the eighties or the nineties,
y IL Is fresh wound, and will always
kialA fresh wound.
.gh'lng down the steep of years the
|.us that would have steadied those
f'tfihg steps have been twenty-eigh1
| az, folded into the last sleep. The
l'uIesSness, the widowhood, the orphan
|-%ho has a measuring line Ions
'Gsl to tell the height of it, the deptl
IT. the intinity of it? What {
GaAlaln, what an Alps, what Hima
d a, Oh piled up agony of bereavement
H., i'. \; SIMPLE statement that three hun
f. thousand men of the North were
F' and five hundred thousand men O
sooth were slain, and hundreds o
FSS Islands long afterward, through tn
FI ia~s!llons there suffered, going dow
~ uesan from the top of the toni
ss TWO garlands that 1 am twisting
|0.l mute while that l may with then
|v vIne she brow of the living. Over tn
FFla. the people said: ''Poor fellow
no. No., pity that he should have bee
,o oyA down." We did not. however
|o.S enough say: "Poor father! Poo
''I4cf! Poor wife! Poor child" an
FAY 1t now. Have you realized tina
'o,' sna' wholesale massacre hundreds Q
Id 's .l OF young people at the Mort
~ me Month hovo ,,ovov bod on