Connecticut western news., 1891-06-03
FLOW FRS FOR BOTH SIDES
A UNIQUE MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE
 IN BROOKLYN TABERNACLE.

A UNIQUE MEMORIAL DAY SERVICE
 IN BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. pr. Talmase Breaches Sermon About
 the Soldiers of tho Civil War. and Of
 fers a Garland for the North and One
 for the South.
 BROOKLYN, May 31. Yesterday hay ing been observed as Decoration Day, Dr. Talmage this morning preached an appropriate sermon. It was a novel and unprecedented service, as in differ ent parts of the audience were many ot those who had belonged to both Fed eral and Confederate armies, the sub ject having been previously announced, namely, Two Garlands for Northern and Southern Graves" Over the pull pit were two wreaths of beautiful flow CTS, and they were linked together so that they were an object lesson of the subject presented. Text: Isaiah xiii, 6t"I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south, Keep not back.
 AN APPRoPR1ATR TEXT.
 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 last two there have been rivalries and disturbing ambitions and infelicities and silver bills and Worlds fair contro- versies, there have been between them no batteries unlimbered, no intrench- ments dug, no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown up. It has never been Massachusetts Fourteenth regiment against Wisconsin zouaves; it has nev- CT been Virginia artillery against Mis- sissippi rifles.
 East 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 intonation of wailing and death groan. But the north and the south are words that have been surcharged with trage dies. They are words which suggest that for forty years the clouds had been gathering for four years tempest which thirty years ago burst in fury that shook this planet as it has never been shaken since it swung out at the first world building
 thank God that the words have lost some of the intensity which they possessed three decades ago; that vast multitude of northern people have moved south. and vast multitude of southern people have moved north, and there have been intermarriages by the ten thousand, and northern colo nels 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 harlnonizar ton.
 thought that now, when we are half way between presidential elections. and sectional anilnosities are at lowest ebb. and now just after presidential jour ney. when our chief magistrate, who was chiefly elected by the north, has been cordially received at the south one of them a month ago strewing flowers on southern graves. and the other yesterday strewing flowers on northern graves it might be appropri ate and useful for me to preach ser mon which would twist two garlands, one for the northern dead and the other for the southern dead. and have the two interlocked in chain of flow CTS that shall bind forever the two sec. tions into one, and who knows but that this may be the day when the prophecy of the text made in regard to the ancients may be fulfilled in regard to this country, and the north give up it's prejudces and the south keep not back it's confidence I will say to the north Give up, and to the south Keep not back
 THE PAINTINGS
 But before l 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 the civil strife There is nothing more soothing to a wound than cool bandage, and these two garlands are cool from the night dew What morning that was on the banks of the Hudson and the Savan nah when the son was to start for the warl What fatherly and motherly counsel What tearsl What heart breaks What charges to write home often What little keepsakes put away in the knapsack, or the bundle that was to be exchanged for the knapsack!
 The crowd around the depot or the steamboat landing shouted, but father and motl,'r and sister cried And how lonely tI., house seemed after they went home, and what an awfully va cant chair there was at the Christmas and Thanksgiving table! 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 Con necticut, and the St. Lawrence, and the | Ohio, and the Oregon, and the James. and the Albemarle, and the Alabama. and the Mississippi. and the Sacramento there were lamentation and mourning and great woe, Rachel weeping to, her children, and refusing to be ru',.tnrted because they were not. The wu,li nas forgotten it, but father and mother have not forgotten it They may be HOW in the eighties or the uinetles but