The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-10-11
GLORY OF The NAVY.
Dr. Talmage'ssermon on Deweys
Homie Coming.
RECEPTION Tc-DEWEY.
Naval Heroes Deserve Full Meas
ure Of Praise. Useful Lessons
Drawn From Their BraVery
and Devotion. Heroic
Deeds Laudeo.

At a time when the whole nation IS
stirred with patriotic emotion at the re-
turn of Admiral George Dewey and his
gallant men on the cruiser Olympia, and
the magnificent reception accorded to
them, the Rev. DR.. T. Dewitt Talmage
in his sermon, preaching to vast audi
ence, appropriately recalls for devout
and patriotic purposes some OF the great
naval deeds Of olden and more recent
times. Text, James.iii, +, Behold
also the ships.
If this exclamation was appropriate
about 1872 years ago, when it was writ
ten concerning the crude fishing smacks
that sailed Lake Galilee, how nuch
more appropriate in an age which has
launched from the drydocks for pur-
poses of pence the Oceanic OF the
White Star line, the Lucania Ct the
Cunard line, the St. Louis Of the Amer
ican line. the Kaiser Wilhelm der
Crosse of the North German Lloyd line,
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 Shenandoah,
the Ossipee, and our ironclads like the
Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and the Dun
derbsrg, and those which have already
been buried in the deep, like tae Moni-
tor. the Housatonic and the Weehaw-
ken. 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 ship
ping, like.the Constitution or the ALI
ance or the Constellation. that have
swung into the naval yards to spend
their last days, their decks now all 81
lent of the feet that trod them, their
rigging all silent Of the hands that
clung to them, their portfolios silent Of
the brazen throats that once thundered
out Of them.
Il 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 reminiscence We can cry
out as we see the Keaesarge 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
Roanoke and up and down the coast,
throwing everything into confusion as
no other craft ever did, pursued by the
Miami, the Ceres, the South6eld, the
Sassocus, the Mattabesett, the White
head, the Commodore Hull. the Louisi-
ana, the Minnesota and other armed
vessels, all trying in valc to catch her,
until Captain Gushing, p years Of age,
and his men blew her up, himself and
only one other escaping, and as see
the flagship Hartford, and the Rich
mond, and the Monongahela. 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 Spanish ships
st Manila. burn or sink, and the feet
rushing out of Santiago harbor are de-
molished by our guns, and the brave
Cer7era surrenders, cry out with pa
triotic emotion that cannot suppress
i'll would, and would not If l 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 suf-
fered all things. Lord God Of the
rivers and the'sea. help me in this ser
mon! So, ye admirals, commanders,
captains, pilots, gunners, boatswains.
sailmakcrs, surgeons, stokers, mess
mates and.seamen Of all names, to use
your own parlance, we might as well get
under way and stand out to sea. lie;
al landlubbers 60 ashore. Full speed
now? Four bells!
Never since the sea fight at Lep"nto,
where 800 royal'galleys manned By 90,
600 warriors, at sunrise, Sept. 6, l5I,
met 250royal galleys, manned by l20,-
G00men, and in the four hours Of battle
5000 fell on one side and %, 900 on the
other; yea, never since the day when at
Actiuu, 81 years before Christ, Angus
tus with 260 ships scattered the 220
ships Of Mark Antony and gained uni
yersal dominion as the prize; yea, since
the day when at Salamis the ], 200 gal
leys Of the Persians, manned by 500,-
600 men, were crushed by Greeks with
less than third Of that force; yea,
never since the time of Noah, the first
ship captain, has the world seen such a
miraculous creation as that of the
American navy in 1861.
In the cemeteries for Federal and
Confederate dead are the bodies of
most Of those who fell on the land.
But where those are who went down in
the war vessels will not be known until
the sea gives up its dead. The Jack
Tars knew that while loving arms might
carry the men who fell on the land and
bury them with solemn liturgy and the
honors Of war, for the bodies of those
who dropped from the ratlines into the
sea or went down with all on board un-
der the stroke of a gunboat there re-
NAMED the shark and the whale and the
endless tossing of the sea which canuot
rest. Once year, in the decoration of
the graves, those who fell in the land
were remembered. Put how about the
graves Of those who went down at sea?
Nothing but the archangels trumpet
shall reach their lowly bed. A few of
them were gathered into naval cemeter-
les Of the land, and We every year gar
land the sod that cover them. But
who will put flowers on the fallen crew
Of the exploded Westfeld and Shaw
sheen and the sunken Southfeld and
the Winfield Scott? Bullets threaten
H. p.o,,