VR. TALMAGE'S Our Naval Heroes, # Bohold algo the ships," —James 3: 4 Ir this exclamation was appropriate bout 30, when it was fhe crude fishing 1.ake Galilee, how much more ywriate in an age which has launched ‘rom the dry docks for purposes of wace the Arizona of the Guion l.ine, the City of Richmond of the Inman Line Fgypt of the National I.ine, manic of the White Star Line, ia of the Anchor L.ine, the ia of the Cunard Line, and t Rastern, with hull six hundred ’ | a failure, tor cable, for one y which for pur- hed the screws the Shenandoah smacks that sailed 1] Lilt Ot pping like the Constituli ance, or the tellat! Constellation tl » naval If in the the seemin ng Was done, v. done thoroughly, and done and skill 1 l wed all WHAT BRILLIANT by the the names of the rear admirals! thev did should be written, every oue, I suppose that the world itself ould not contain the books that should written. But these names have re- ceived the honors due, The most of them to their graves under the cannonade of all the forts, navy vards, and men-of-war, the flags of all ihe shipping ana capitals at half mast, ACHIEVEMENTS, $10 aucgest ed Teds mere mention of If all even wr went naval heroes who have not yet received appropriate recognition. *‘Behold also she ships,” As we will what our national prosperity is worth outil we realize what it cost, 1 recall whe unrecited fact that the men of the navy ran ESPECIAL RISKS onry to contend with, but the tides, the fog. the storm. Not like other ships could they run into harbor at the ap- proach of an equinox, or a cyclone, or # hurricane, because the harbors were nostile, A miscalculation of a tide might leave them on a bar, and a fog might overthrow all the plans of wisest wommodore and admiral and might leave them not on the land ready for an ambulance, but at the bottom of the sea, as when the torpedo blew up the Tec- umseh in Mobile Bay, and nearly all on board perished, They were at the mercy of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, which have no mercy. Such tempests as wrecked the Spanish Arm- ada might any day swoop upon the squadron. No hiding behind the earth- works. No digging in of cavalry spurs af. the sound of retreat. Mightier than { all the fortresses on all the coasts 18 the ocean when it bomberds a flotilla, In the cemeteries for Federal | Confederate dead are the bodies of most | of those who fell on the land, But where those are who went down in the Wa giv es up its dead. The Jack tars | knew that while loving arms might liturgy and the bodies of | bury them with solemn | honors of war, for the { who dropped from the ratlines went down with all on board under the stroke of a gun-boat there re- shark and the whale and tossing « I a which How will ye F'MEIR GR 1 Jel LAE | 8¢a O01 | the endless cannot rest, irel’s trumpet ¢ A few of them have aneteries ol but Crew Ol them; fallen wl Shawsheen, and cand the Winfield threatening in front, , torpe- 1 beneath, and the thirst seote? Bullets $s threatel hreatening with its Urs bom ing from above does Ocean, sand z \ round, am In quired a { Ol 11 Sayl { of right nace fot Fee and beautiful to ie out through in new rig singing @ OOUAN Was the t ae i floated igh the shippin { found that she sank through injuries Her plates had knocked loose in previous times, you have in nerve, and muscle, bone, and dimmed eyesight, and cult hearing, and shortness of breath, many intimations that you are gradu. ally going down, It is the service of | twenty-three years ago that is telling you. Be of good cheer, We owe you just as much as though your life | blood bad gurgled through the scuppers { of the ship in the ded River expedition, | or as though you had gone down with | the Melville off Hatteras, Only KEEP YOUR FLAG FLYING, as did the illustrious Weehawken, Good cheer, my boys! The memory of man lis poor, and all that talk about the | country never forgetting those who | fought for it Is an untruth, It does | forget. Witness how the velerans some- 11688 i i pre Service, been Ny and +H aifli- on street to get thelr families a living, have been turned out of Office that their place, Witness the fact there is not a man or woman now under thirty years of age who has any full appreciation of the four years’ martyrdom of 1861 to 1865, inclusive. But while men may forget, GOD NEVER FORGETS, He remembers the swinging hame mock. He remembers the forecastle. He remembers the frozen ropes of that January tempest, He remembers the amputation without sufficient ether. He remembers the horrors of that deaf. ening night when forts from both sides belched on you their fury, and the heavens glowed with the ascending and descending mussiles of death, and your ship quaked under the recoil of the one hundred pounder, while all the ganners, A A stood on tiptoe with mouth wide open, lest the concu sion shatter hearing or brain, He re- (rod for is the best of all pay- those who do their award- be given, masters, and on the coast of England have inspected the Sometimes off the royal family Jaltic Sea reviewed wiore the owe to on the ple nty thier that purpose. In the Czar and Czarina have the Russian navy, To bring American people the debt they the navy, I Atlantic Ocean, wh nd in for ¢ Ww i 1 1 gO OL is YOu of room, a Imag shipping of oul THREE GREAT CONFLI 1776, 1a 1 1865, Will NO More & while old ocoran Hears red ¢ i 6s f i as yt a white sail, ATS % ugh the ne'er f Old heart of oak, Farragut. Farragut, ko! Guide thr gn ff fen will hin Thunderbolt str \ i to his Was very own loose in his and practised all One he called into her, who was a ship said : ** David, to be anvhow 7?" am going to follow said the raing i morals in eary n anhood, Kinds of the Was cab his fat master. } father what are you going He answered: **1 the sea.” ** Follow the sea,’ fathe and die in a foreign hospital 2’ *‘ No,” said David: “I am going to command like vou.’ **No,” said the father; “‘a boy of your habits will never command anvthing.” and his father burst into From that day David FARRAGUT STARTED ON A NEW LIFE, tears, his battles and had his intimate friend- ship, and he confirms what 1 had heard Christian. In every great crisis of life he asked and obtained the Divine direc- When in Mobile Bay, the moni- tor Tecumseh sank from a torpedo, and to lead the squadron turned back, he said he was at a loss to know whether to advance or retreat, and he says: “1 prayed ‘O God, who created man and gave him reason, direct me what to do. Shall 1 go on?’ And a voice com- manded me: ‘Go on,’ and I went on.” Was there ever a more touching Christian letter than that which he wrote to his wife from his flag-ship Hartford 2 “My dearest wife, 1 write and leave this letter for you, 1 am going into Mobile Bay in the morning, if God is my leader, and 1 Hope he is, and in Him Uplace my trust, If He me to 3 will fr thimit to H Cron Die } and y A Cheerful to the Tallapoosa iy took: *It woul | harness,’? | vice for the priately rea 1 well ct SCHOOL, LESSON. ommandments [ am 111. He is a W y : Which broug! hee out.” 1 Man's o - Man's gracious deliv Bondage: 2) Exodus; {1. GOD'S LAW CONCERNING I. Rivals of Gol : Thou before me (3). Ye shall not ftes (Judg. 6: 10). Ye shall not fear other gods, nor bow to them (2 Kings 17: 35). Go not after other gods to serve them (Jer. 2b: 6 | Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with | all thy heart (Mark 12: 30). | 11. Representations of God : Thou shalt not make unte thee a | a graven image (4). Ye shall make you no idols (Lev. 26: 1). Cursed be the man that maketh a graven. ...image (Deut, 27: 15). Ashamed be all they that serve graven images (Psa. 97: 7). Who hath fashioned a God... .that is profitable ? (Isa. 44: 10), 111. References to God : Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain (7). The Lord will not hold him guiltiess that taketh his name in vain (Deut, 5:11.) We will walk in the name of the Lord (Micah 4: 5). Baptizing them into the name of the Father (Matt, 28: 19), Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord d from unrighteous- Be i2 7mm. 2: 18). 1. “Thou shalt have none other gods HIMSELF. shalt have other gods NOTH of the Amor- fear the gods i esi 1 WAS A iessOn Ol children in all U There! was that up an » Lord, to s ming gener: 1 toward Sinai the children At Bephidim they murmured ; 1 the Lord #08 to bring fort 1 came 1 rye manna before as a testimony to th IAN oinet ti ourneved, and ' M hem I flinty rock. t was that ren of Amalek came against t dis uted hem at TTOSK, Josin the host of while Moses 8 held wonder-working rod as a symbol of the Divine presence, There is no suggestion that Moses was thus interceding or praying for the peo- ple, but the implication is that the peo- ple were thus reminded of the source of their strength and safety. This made clear in the name given to the memorial altar erected there, **Jehovah- nissi.”” “The Lord my Banner,” or “my Standard, Who were the Amalekiles is an open question, A grandson of Esau was | named Amalek (Gen. 36 : 10-12). He may have been their ancestor. Arabic | traditions tell of an Amalek in the fifth | generation from Noah in the line of | Ham, whose descendants settled in | Canaan. In the days of Moses, the | Amalekites and the Midianites seem to | have been the chief roving tribes in the | Sinaitic peninsula, | The site of Rephidim is in dispute. | Many scholars would locate it at Wady Fayran, a remarkable oasis near the foot of Mount Serbal, of the Sinaitic group. But the Rev, F. W. Holland, an experienced English traveler in that sgion, has a:gued with much plausi- bility for Wady Wateayeh, which isthe main northernmost entrance way tothe Sinaitic group, by the easiest caravan road from Egypt, and which is ap- proached by a narrow and easily guard. od pass, It is a noteworthy fact that a large rock near that passage way is to- day pointed out by the Arabs as the Chair of Moses; as if in traditional in- dication of his there in the conflict with the Amalekites, At Rephidim the father-in-law of 1 prevailing tu y verlooking hill- ummit Is 1 ie counsel o£ Era test Organization mn an needs a - ro of Pepper, n when it : find charged for in your invoices, Some of it w bags; ag 1O- the great in result from the The native chaps ill leak out i bs some of it wil ‘sampled’ when body is looking; but weight is believed fact that it dries out. that grow the berry ship it all sorts of little streams in all sorts of junks, and it catches a good deal of salt water by the time it is shipped from Singapore. Water doesn’t hurt whole pepper in the least unless it ie kept wet too loug and allowed to rot, but it adds to its avoirdupms. When you reflect that 60,000,000 of us are shaking it three times a day on almoss everything we eat, is it any wonder we get away with so much pepper? Much De OSS to down concerns that make salads and sauces and pickles and catsups.” ——-—- - Upper Barmah's Baby Mines. Thess mines are situsted seventy miles from Mandalay, Within a valley about 100 miles square and surrounded by nine mountains lie the gems, and it now encamped. The mines have hithe erte yielded only £10,000 to £15,000 a year, but it is believed that English ene ineers could reap a better harvest, ‘he sapphires sometimes range from nine to thirteen carats, and are usually perfect. Theebaw claimed a right of selection among all the larger stones, but the merchants took care that he seldom obtained the best. It was rare that he got a ruby above a quarter of a carat in weight, and when he did it was generally flawed. The mines will now be worked under the super- vision of the Indian government, and it is to be hoped that they, as well as Bure mah itself, will prove remunerative
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