The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-10-02
GLORY OF THE NAVY.
OR. FAllGAes's sgRMoN on oewEY's
HOME COMING.

Of Praise - Useful Lessons Drawn
From Their Bravery and Devotion.
Heroic Deeds Lauded,
Copyright, Louis Klopsch, 1901
WASHINGTON, Oct. lat time when
the whole nation Is stirred with patriotic
emotion at the return of Admiral George
Dewey and his gallant men ON the cruiser
Olympia and the magnificent reception
accorded to them. the Rev. DR.. T. De
Witt Talmage, In his sermon, preaching
to vast audience, appropriately recalls
for devout and patriotic purposes some Of
the great naval deeds Of olden and more
recent times. Text, James Iii, 4, BE
hold also the ships"
II this exclamation was appropriate
about 1872 years ago, when 1t was writ
ten concerning the crude fishing smacks
that sailed Lake Galilee, how much more
appropriate In an age which has launch
ed from the drydocks for purposes of
peace the Oceanic Of the White Star line,
the Lucania Of the Cunard line, the st.
Louis of the American line, the Kaiser
Wilhelm der Crosse of the North German
Lloyd line, the Augusta Victoria of the
Hamburg American line, and in an age
which for purposes Of war has launched
the screw sloops like the Idaho, the Shen-
andoah. the Ossipee, and our ironclads
like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and the
Dunderberg, and those which have al
ready been buried In the deep, like the
Monitor, the Housatonic and the Wee
hawken, the tempests ever since sounding
volley over their watery sepulchers,
and the Oregon, and the Brooklyn, and
the Texas, and the Olympia, the Iowa,
the Massachusetts,, 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 throats that once
Numbered out OF them.
II In the first century, when war YES
sells were dependent ON the oars that
padded at the side Of them for propul-
sion, my text was suggestive, with how
much more emphasis and meaning and
overwhelming "Reminiscences 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 see the ram Albemarle Of the
Confederates running out and In the RO-
anoke and up and down the coast, throw
ing everything into confusion as no other
craft ever did, pursued by the Miami,
the Ceres the Southfeld, the Sassacus,
the Mattabesett, the Whitehead, the
Commodore Hnll. the Louisiana, the
Minnesota and other armed vessels. all
trying in vain to catch her, until Captain
Gushing, 81 years of age. and his men
blew her up, himself and only one other
escaping, and as see the flagship Hart
ford, and the Richmond, and the Mo-
nongahela, with other gunboats, sweep
past the batteries Of Port Hudson, and
the Mississippi flows forever free to all
northern and southern craft, and under
the fire Of Dewey and his men the Span
ish ships at Manila burn or sink, and the
feet rushing out of Santiago harbor are
demolished by our guns, and the brave
Cervera surrenders, cry out with pa
triotic emotion that cannot suppress il
would, and would not II could, "Be-
bold also the ships"
Naval Heroes Deserve Praise.
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, ye nd
mirals, commanders, captains, pilots, gun
ners, boatswains, sailmakers, surgeons,
stokers, messmates and seamen of all
names. to use your own pariance, we
might as well get under way and stand
out to sea. Let all landlubbers 90 ashore.
Full speed now! Four bells!
Never since the sen fight of Lepanto,
where 800 royal galleys, manned by So
OOO warriors, at sunrise, Sept. 9, 1871,
met $50 royal galleys, manned by 120,-
900 men, and In the four hours of battle
5000 fell on one side and $4,000 on the
other; yea, never since the day when at
Actium, 81 years before Christ, Angus
tus with 200 ships scattered the 900 ships
Of Mark Antony and gained universal
dominion as the prize; yea since the day
when at Salamis the 1,200 galleys of the
IarqIana- manned
crushed nv Greeks with lass than n third
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