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-
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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.”
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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