The morning times., 1896-06-01
FlOHEnSF0R Two GRAVES
Or. Talmage's Eloquent Tribute
to North and South.
PLEA FOR CLOSER UNITY
He Prays for the Disappearance of
All Feeling and Made an Acknowl
eGgment TO the Heroism of the
Blue and Gray-wove Two Gar
lands of EIoquence.


the subject OF DR.. 1aimage's morning SER
mon at the First Presbyterian Church yes
terday. His subject was, Two Garlands;
one Tor Northern Graves, and the other for
Southern Graves" and the text: Isaiah,
1876: Il Will say TO the North, give up,
and to the South, keep not back" DR..
Talmage said, in part:
Just whdtihy Jc->U meant by the North and
South, ! cannot say, but in the United
States tie Two words are so point blank
III their meaning that no one can doubt.
They mean more than East and West, for
although these two have been rivalries,
aad ,!iStG~ ing ambitions and infelicities,
ana WORLDS Eair Controversies, there have
bceu YeJWCen IHe.ii.O batteries uuhL bereG,
40 ".itren, tIi.euts dug, nollnes OF SepulchTal
mounds thrCwn mp.
IL has never Leen Massa chusetts Four
tCenih tCSlucit aRainst iEConsin ZouaVeS;
II mas never been Virginia Artillery against
Mississippi Rifles. East and West are
Gl>uHct woTas, and sometimes may mean
diversity OF interest but there is 10 blood
! on them, They can Be pronounced without
! lHy iHtonatIon OF Mdii4ng ara uea tG- SToan.
But the North and South are words that
! have been sUrChaTged with ira gedies.
| They are words which suggest that for
| iorty years the CaoGis ia beeH "a theringfo
| j four years tempest which tLirt y-flve yearS
ago burst in Jury that shook this planet
as II has-never been shaken since 1t swung
out a I the first wOr!G-bululnS.
/ thank God that the WCTLS have lost
! SOME OF IN" intensity WhlCh they possessed
three decades ago, that a vast multitude
OF Northern people have moved South
and vast multitude of Southern people
nave moved North, and there have been
InlerInarriaEcS by the ten thousand and
Northern CoioneiS have married the daugh-
! iCFs Ot SOutlC IN ca ptalnS, ami Texas Ri hgtrS
| have united Tor life with the daughters OF
New York abO!iliOniSts and their children
are hall Northern ami hair Southern and
altogether patriotic.
BROUGHT CLOSER YET.
But North and South are words that need
! TO be brought into still closer harm mOnizati0n.
! l tnOGgh, t.4at no ~, lusl aflEf wO memorial
/ days, one OF them Il month ago strewinG
/ flowers on Southern graves, and the other
! yesterday streWing flowers on Northern
/ g.ayrS, II might be appropriate and useful
/ tor me To preach a sermon which would
j,yiSU two gaF!andS, one for the Northern
| dead, ana the other for the southern dead,
aud nave the two iHteriOcKed in chain
/ CT flowers Juat shah bind forever the two
/ sections INTO one, anG VINO KNOWS but That
/ This may he the day when the prophecy
! OF ne text, made in gegarI TO the anClentS,
may be fulfilled IN regard to this country,
! ana the North give up Is preiuulces and the
South keep not back its confidence.
Il VIII say to the North, give up, and to
/ the south, keep not back. Whether
/ you fought ON Northern or Southern size, 1
| hall you, l bless you! Especial greeting
/ do ! give the Union Veteran Legion who
| surround me, all of them volunteering
I for Federal service before any drafting
/ took place, and VINO are now bound to-
gethcr for purposes OF fraternity aud
! charity and patriotism.
| But DctuTG pul IHeSe EarlandS on the
graves, l mean To put them this morning.
Il little while on tie brows of the living
! men and women OF the North and South
! Tno lost husbands, SoES and brothers dur
! .ng tie Clyl STRIFE. Nothing Is more soottl-
! ing 20 Il wound than cool bandage, and
these two gariauds are cool from The night
! dew.
WOMEN OF THE WAR.
What morning that was on the banks
| of the Hudson ana the Savannah when the
| son was TO star for war! What fatherly
and motherly COUNSEL What tears! What
| charges to write home often! What little
kcepSakes put away in the knapsack! The
| crowd around the depot or the steam
| boat landing shouted, but father and mo-
| thcr and sister cried. And how lonely the
| house seemed after they went home, and
what an wfully vacant chair there was al
the Christmas and thanksgiving table!
And after the battle, what waiting fOf
| news! What suspense till the long lists
of the killed and wounded were maue out
/ Ali along the PcnobScOt. and the Con
necticut. and the st. Lawrence, and the
ONO. and the Oregon, and the Potomac
and the James, and the Albemarle, and the
Alabama, and the Mississippi, and the
| Sacramento there were lamentatlon anL
| mourning and great woe, Rachel weeping
for her children and refusing TO be com
forted because they were not.
The world has forgotten it, but father
ana mother have not forgotten it. They
ma he now in the eightieSOr in the nineties
but it is a fresh wound and Will always
remain a fresh wound. Coming down the
step OF years the hands that would have
steadied those totterlng steps have beer
| thIrty-three years folded into the last sleep
The ChildleSsness, the widowhOOd, the
| orphanage. who has a measuring line long
enough TO tell the height of IT, the deptt
OF It, the infinity of it. What a mountain
| what an 4 lpS, what Himalay VA of piled VI
| agony of bereavement in the simple state
ment that three hundred thousand mei
of the North We're slain, and five hundred
thousand men OF the South We're slain, anC
hundreds of thousands long afterwarC
through theeXhauStlOnS thereSuifered, gOlnt
down TO death.
THE WIDOW AND ORPHAN.
We who are fathers stand between on
children and the world. We fight thei
battles, we plan for their welfare, W.
achieve their livelihood, We give them TIL
advice of our superior years.
But what OF the children, two and fiv
aud ten years OF age, who stood at thei
} mothers lap with great, " ondcrEs eyes
hearing her read Of those who perlSled
The battle Of the Wilderness their fathc
gone amid the dead host? Come, men ant
1 women, who 10y such disaster have had L
make your own way in life, and viii pu
the garland on your unwrinkled brow.
/ Before put the two garlands am twist
I ing upon The Northern and Southern tofnDS
l dCtain the Edrlands a little while tha
may put them upon the brow OF the livln
/ soldiers aud sailors of the North and SOutl
( who, though in variance for long while
| ar. now AT peace and in hearty loyalty I
/ the United states government and read