The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-10-13
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
DEWEY THE SUBJECT FOR LAST
SUNDAY.
From Text, James, Chapter 3, Verso 4, ms
Follows; "Bchoid Also the Ships"-A
Review OF Our Naval Heroes and
Those of Other Nations.

If this exclamation was appropriate
about eighteen hundred and seventy
two years ago, when 1t was written
concerning the crude fishing smacks
that sailed Lake Galilee, how much
more appropriate in an age which has
| launched from the dry docks for pur-
poses of peace the Oceanic of the
White Star line, the Lucania of the
Cunard line, the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse of the North German Lloyd
line, the Augusta Victoria of the Ham,
burg-American line: and in an age
which for purposes of war has launched
the screw-sloops like the Idaho. the
Shenandoah, the Ossipee, and our iron
clads like the Kalamazoo, the Roam
oke and the Dunderberg. and those
which have already been buried in the
deep, like the Monitor, the Housatonic
and the Weehawken, the tempests ever
since sounding volley over their
watery sepulchres; and the Oregon,
and the Brooklyn, and the Texas, and
the Olympia, the Iowa, the Massachu-
sets, the Indiana the New York, the
Marietta of the last war, and the
Scared veterans of war shipping. like
the Constitution, or the Alliance, or
the Constellation that have swung into
the naval yards to spend their last
| days, their decks now all silent of the
feet that trod them, their rigging all
silent of the hands that chung to them,
their portfolios silent Of the brazen
threats that once Numbered out OF
them. If in the first century, when
war vessels were dependent on the
cars that padded at the side of them
for propulsion, my text was sugges-
tive, with how much more emphasis
and meaning and overwhelming remi-
niscence we can cry out, as we see the
Kearsarge lay across the bows of the
Alabama and sink it, teaching foreign
nations they had better keep their
hands off our American fight, or as
We sec the ram Albemarle of the Con-
federates running out and in the
Roanoke, and up and down the coast,
throwing everything into confusion as
no other craft ever did, pursued by the
Miami, the Ceres, the Southfeld, the
Sassacus, the Mattabesett, the White
head. the Commodore Hull, the Louisi-
ana, the Minnesota ana other armed
vessels, all trying in vain to catch her,
until Capt. Cushing, q years OF age
/ Il; htauy III hjmSnlf ana
only enc other escaping; and as l see
the flagship Hartford, and the Rich
! mond, and the Monongahela, with
other gunboats. sweep past the batter
les of Port Hudson, and the NJ ssis-
sippi flows forever free to all northern
| and southern craft, and under the fire
| of Dewey and his men the Spanish
| ships at Manila burn or sink, and the
feet rushing out of Santiago harDor
are demolished by our guns. and the
brave Cervera surrenders. l cry out
with a patriotic emotion that l cannot
suppress il l would, and would not II
I could. "Behold also the ships"
Full justice has been done to the
men who at different times fought on
the land. but not enough has been said
of those who on ships deck dared and
suffered all things. Lord God OF the
rivers. and the sea, help me in this
sermon! So, We admirals, command
ers. captains, pilots. gunners, boats
wains, sailmakers, surgeons, stokers,
messmates and seamen of all names,
TO use your own parlance, we might
As we'll get under way and stand out
to sea. Let all land lubbers go ashore.
Full speed now! Four bells!
Never since the sea fight of Lepanto,
where 300 royal galleys, manned by
10000 warriors, at sunrise, Sept b,
1871. met $50 royal galleys. manned by
100 600 men, and in the four hours CT
battle 5000 fell on one side, and 25,0t0
on the other; yea. never since the day
when at Actium. thirty-one years be-
fore Christ, Augustus with 260 ships
scattered the 220 ships of Marc An
tony, and gained universal dominion
as the prize; yea, since the day when
at Salamis the 1900 galleys of the Per-
SLAMS. manned by 100000 men, were
crushed by Greeks with less than a
third of that force. yea. never since
the time of Noah, the first ship cap
tain. has the world seen such miiac-
ulous creation as that of the American
navy in 1861.
There we're about 200 available sea-
men in all the naval stations and re-
ceiving ships, and here and there an
old vessel. Yet orders were given to
blockade $500 miles OF seacoast-
greater than the whole coast of Eu
rope-and besideS that the Ohio, Ten
nessee, Cumberland. Mississippi, AMI |
other great rivers, covering an extent |
of 1000 miles, were 10 be patrolled |
No wonder the whole civilized world
burst into outlaws of laughter at the
seeming impossibility. But the work
was done, done almost Immediately,
done thoroughly, and done with a
speed and consummate skill that
eclipsed all the history of naval archi-
lecture What brilliant achievements