Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-06-04
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
ary DR. TALMAGE's SERMON. FOR
MEMORIAL DAY

81 Will Say to the North. Give Up. and
IN the south. Keep Not Baek"-Isaiah
xiii. 0, the Text = A Notable Dis
course.
BRooKLYN. May b. Yesterday having
been observed as Decoration Day DIR Tai
mage this morning preached an appropri
ate sermon 1t was novel and unprece
dsnted service. as in different parts of the
audience were many OF those who had be
lonyed 70 both Federal and Confederate
armies. the subject having been previously
announced. namely Two Garlands for
.Northern and Southern Graves" Over the
mint were two wreaths OF beautiful
aowers. and they were linked together, so
that they were an object lesson for the sub
,act presented Text Isaiah xiii, 6-"l
viii say to the north, Give up. and to the
south, Keep not back.
Inst 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 last two there
nave been rivalries and disturbing ambi
tions and infelicities and silver bills and
Worlds fair controversies, there have been
hetween them no batteries unlim bered, no
iptrenchments dug. no long lines of sepul
chral mounds thrown up 1t has never
beeu Massachusetts, Fourteenth regiment
AGAINST Wisconsin zouaves, it has never
been Virginia artillery against Mississippi
rifles
East and west are distinct words, and
sometimes may mean diversity of interest,
INIT there Is no blood on them. They can
be pronounced without any information of
wailine 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 1t
has never been shaken since 1t swung ont
at the Inst world building | thank God
that the words have lost some OF the in
tenslty which they possessed three decades
ago that a vast multitude OF northern
people nave moved south. and vast mul
titude OF southern people have moved
north, and there have been intermarriages
bythe ten thousand and northern colonies
captains. and Texas rangers have united
Tor life with the Daughters OF New York
sbolitionists, and their children are halt
northern aud half southern and altogether
patriotic
But north and south are words that need
% be brought into still closer harmoniza
ion thought that now when we are
half way between presidential elections,
and sectional auimssties are at the lowest
,bb and now just after presidential
Journey when our chief magistrate. who
was chiefly elected by the north. has been
cordially received at the south. and now
inst after two Memorial Days. one of them
month ago. strewing flowers on southern
graves. aud 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 It's prejudices and the south keep not
back its confidencey 4 will say to the
north, Give up. and to the south. Keep not
back
eARLANps ON LIVING BRows
But before put these garlands on the
graves mean to put them this morning
little while on the brows OF the living
men and women OF the north and south
who lost husbands and sons and brothers
during he evil strife There Is nothing
more soothing to wound than cool
bandage and these two garlands are cool
from the night dew What morning
that was on the banks OF the Hudson ana
the Savannah when the sou was To start
for the war What fatnerly and motherly
counsell What tears What heartbreaksi
What charges TO write home oftenl What
little keepsakes put away in the knapsack
or the bundle that was to be exchanged for
the knapsack rhe crowd around the de
pot or the steamboat landing shouted out
father aud mother and sister cried
And how lonely the house seemed after
they went home. aud what an awiuliy va
cant chair there was at the Christmas ana
Thanksgiving table Aud after tile butte.
what waiting for newsl What suspense
till the long lists OF the killed and wounded
"cie ulduc OUT All hiOuS thc A~hct'7~oe'
and the Connecticut. and the st Lawrence.
and the Ohio and the Oregon. and the
James, ana the Aipemarie, aud the Ala
bama ana the Mississippi. and the Sacra
mento there were iamentation and mourn
ing aud great woe Rachel weeping Tor her
children. ana refusing TO be comforted DE
cause they were not The world has Tor
gotten it, but father and mother have not
forgotten IL They may he now IN the
eighties or the nlneties bnt it Is fresh
wound and will always remain a fresh
wound
Coming down the steep OF years the
hands that would have steadied those
tottenng steps nave been twenty eignt
Years folded into the last sleep me
chlldishness the widow hood. the or
phanage who has a measuring hne
long enough 10 tell the height OF II. the
depth OF H. the infinity OF III " nat
mountain what an Alps. what hlma
laya OF piled up agony OF bereavement ~
the simple statement that tnree nundred
thousand men OF the north were slam and
I'VE hundred thousand men OF the south
We're slain and hundreds Of thousands
long afterward through the exhAustions
there suffered going down 10 DEATH