Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-06-05
TABERNACLE PULPIT.
REV. DIR. TALMAGE'S SERMON FOR
MEMORIAL DAY.


to the south, Keep Not Baok"-Is,,iah
xliii, 6, the Tert - A Notable Dis
course.
BROOKLYN, May H.--Yesterday having
been observed as Decoration Day, DR.. Tai
mage this morning preached an appropri-
ate sermon. 1t was a novel and unprece-
dented service, as in different parts of the
audience were many Of those who had be-
Joured to both Federal and Confederate
armies. the subject having been previously
announced. namely, 1.-TWO Garlands for
Northern and Southern Graves" Over the
pulpit were two wreaths of beautiful
flowers and they were linked together so
that they were an object lesson for the sub
iect presented Text Isaiah xiii, 6-"I
will say to the north Give up, and to the
south, Keep not back
Just what my text meant by the north
and south cannot say, but in the United
States the two words are 20 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 ambi-
tons and infelicities and silver bills and
Worlds fair controversies, there have been
between them no batteries unlimberel, no
iutrcnchments dug no long lines of sepul-
chrai mounds thrown up. 1t has never
been Massachusetts, Fourteenth regiment
a~qinst Wisconsin zOuaves; it has never
been Virginia artillery against Mississippi
rifles.
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sometimes may mean diversity of interest,
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