BEV. DR. TALMAGE. THE EMINENT DIVINE'S SUNDAY DISCOURSE. Bubfeott The Glury of the Navy-Naval Heroes Doserve Fall Measure of Pralse—Useful Lessons Drawn From Their Bravery and Devotion, [Copyright, Louis Klopseh, 1809.) Wasmixarox, D, C.—At a time when the whole nation is stirred with patriotic emo- tion at the return of Admiral Dewey and his gallant men on the cruiser Olympia and the magnificent reception ne- corded to them, the Rev, Dr, T. Da Witt Taimage, in his sermon, preaching to a vast audience, appropriately recalls for devout and patriotic purposes some of the great naval deeds of olden and more recent times, Text, James {ii,, 4, “Behold also the ships.” Itthisexclamation was appropriate about 1872 years ago, when it wus written con- cerning the crude fishing smacks that sailed Lake Galilee, how much more appropriate in an age whieh has launched from the dry- docks for purposes of peace the Oceanic of the White Star line, the Lucania of North German Lloyd line, the Augusta Vie- toria of the Hamburg-American line, and fn an age which for purposes of war has launched the serew sloops like the Idaho, the Shenandoah, the Ossipes, and our iron- clads like the Kalamazoo, the Roanoke and the Dunderberg, and those which bave al- ready been buried in the deep, like the Monitor, the Housatonic and the the Oregon, and the Brooklyn, and the Texas, and the Olympia, the [owa, the Mas- sachusetts, the Indiana, the New York, the Marietta of the last war, and the soarred veterans of war shipping, like the Consti- tution 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 rig- ging all silent of the hands that clung to them, their portholes silent of the brazen throats that once thundered out of them, 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 Lord God of the rivers and the ses, help me in this sermon! So, ve admirals, com- manders, captains, pilots, gunners, boat. swains, sallmakers, surgeons, stokers, mess. own parlance, we might as well get under way and stand out to sea. labbers go ashore, bells! It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a war vessel rows, sallors in new rig singing, Full speed now! Four A life on the ocean wave, A home on the roiling deep, the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships, the decks immaculately clean ani th- guns at quarantine firing a parting salute. Bat the poetry is all gone out of that ship as it comes out that engage ment, its decks red with human blood, wheelhouse gone, the cabins a pile of shat. tered mirrors and destroyed furniture, of a hundred pound Whitworth rifles ] fog left its mark from port to starboard, the shrouds rent away, ladde.s splintered and sealded corpses lylog among those who are gaspiog thelr last gasp far away from home and kindred, whom they love as much as we love wife and parents and chii- dren, Ob, men of the Ame {can navy returned from Manila and Santiago and Havana, well as those who are survivors of the naval confliots of 1863 and 1364, men of the western gulf squadron, of the eastern gulf uadron, of the south Atlantic squadron, the north Atlantic squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the Pacific squad- rom, of the West India squadron, and of the Potomae flotilla, hear our thanks! Take the benediction of the churches, gept the hospitalities of the nation Bad our way, we would get yon not only & pension, but a home and a prinesly ward. robe and an equipage and a banquet while you live, and alter your departure =» eatalaique and a mausol fn of seapltured marble, with a model of the ship ia which you won the day. It is considered a gal- lant thing when in a naval fight the flag. ship with its blue ensign goes ahead up giver or into a bay, its admi standing in the shrouds watching and giv fing orders. But I have to tell yon, erans of the American navy, if you are as loyal to Christ as you were to the govern ment, there is a Sagship sailing ahead you of which Christ {s the admiral, and He watehes from the shrouds, and the heavens are the blue ensign, and He leads you to. ward the harbor, and all the broadsides of earth and hell cannot damage you, and ve whose garments were onoe red with your own blood shall bave a robs washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb, Then strike eight bells! High noon in heaven! ne of " ueting the sailor patriots just tharned we must not of the navy now in marice hospitals or their children’s homesteads, «kane, I charge you bear up aches and weaknesses that you still earry from the wartimes. You arenot as stalwart 88 you would have been but tor that nervy. ous strain and for that terrifle exposure, Let every achie and pain, instead of depress. ing remind you of your fidelity, The sinking of the Weehawken off Morris Island, De- eember 6, 1963, was a mystery, She was not under fire. Toe sea was But Admiral Dahlgren fron the deck of the flag steamer Philadelphia saw ber gradually sinking finally she struck Oh, yo vet. sight of the shipping. It was afteward found that she sank from through injuries in previous service, Her plates hind been knoeked loose in previous times, Bo you have ia nerve and musele and bone and dimmed eyesight and dif. eult hearing and shortness of breath many fotimations that you are gradually going down. It isthe service of many years ago that is telling on you. Be of good cheer, We owe you just as miuch as ‘hough your Hiebiood had gurgied through the scup- pers of the ship in the Red river expedition or as though you had gone down with the Melville off Hatteras, Oanly keep your flag fiying, as did the jliustrious Weehawken. @&ood cheer, my boys! Bometimes off the ecust of England the royal family Lave inspected the British navy, manwmuvered before them for that purpose, In the Baltic sea the czar and ezaring have reviewed the Russian navy, To bring befors the Ameriean people the debt they owe to the navy I go out with you on the Atlantic ocean, where there is plenty of room, and In imagisation re- view the war shipping of our four great confliets 1776, 1812, 1565 and 1808, Bwing foto line all ye frigates, ironelads, fire rafts, gunboats and men-of-war! There they come, all sail set and all foarnaces fo fall blast, sheaves of crystal tossing from their cutting prows, That fs the Delaware, an old olutionary eraft, commanded by Commodore scatur, Yonder goes the Coosstitution, Come modore Hull commanding, There is the Chesapeake, commanded by Captain Lawrence, whose dying words were, “Don't give up the ship,” and the Ninga- ra of 1812, commanded by Commodores Perry, who wrote on the back of an oid letter, resting on his navy cap, ‘We have met the enemy they “re ours.” Yon der 1s the flagship Wabsah, Admiral Du. y oote commanding; Hardford, David G, Farragut command. ing; yonder, the Drookiyn, Rear Admiral Sohley commanding; yonder, the Olympia, Admiral Dewey commanding; yonder the Oregon, Captain Clark commanding; yone der, the Texas, Captain Philip command. ing; yonder, the New York, Hear Admiral Sampson commanding; yonder, the Iowa, Captain Robley D. Evans commanding. All those of you who were (pn the naval service during the war of 1865 are now in the afternoon or evening of life, With some of vou it is 2 o'clock, 8 o'clock, 4 down, If you were of age when the war broke out, you are now at least 60. Many of you have passed into the seventies, While in our Cuban war there were more commanders on sea and land two great admirals of the civil war were Christians, Foote and Farragut. Had the Christian religion been a cowardly thing they would have had nothing to de with it. In its faith they lived and died, In Brooklyn navy yard Admiral Foote held prayer meetings and conducted a re. vival on the receiving ship North Carolina and on Sabbaths, far out at sea, followed the chaplain with religious exhortation, aboard the sloop-of-war Natehez, impressed by the words of a Chris. tian sailor, he gave his spars time for two weeks to the Bible, and at the end of that declared openly, ‘Henceforth, under all circumstances, I will act for God.” His last words while dying at the Astor House, New York, were: *‘I thank God for all His goodness to me, Heo has been very good to me.” When he entered heaven, ho did not bave to run a blockade, for it Xa The on earth until the days when the fires from above shall lick up the waters from De- neath and there shall be no more sea. Oh, while old ocean's breast Bears a white sail And God's soft stars to rest Guide through tha gale, Men will him ne'er forget, Old heart of cak-~ Farragut, Farragut-- Thunderbolt stroke! According to his own statement, Far manhood and practiced all kinds of sin, One day he was called {ato the cabin of his father, who was a shipmaster, His father sald, “David, what are you going to be anyhow?’ He answered, "I am going to follow the sea.” “Follow the sea.” said father, ‘and be kicked aboul the world and die in a foreign hospital?” “No,” said David; “Iam going to eom- like you." “No,” sald the father; “a boy of your habits will never command aoythiog.”” And his Iather burst into tears From that day David Farragut started on a new life, Captain Pennington, an bouored elder Brooklyn chiureh, was with him in of his battles and had his intimate confirmed, what I had that Farragut was good oristian, In every great crisis of asked and obtained the Divione di. rection. When in Mobile bay the monitor sank from a torpedo and the great warship Brooklyn, that was to lead the squadron, turned back, sald he at a loss to know whether to ad. vance or retreat, and he says: “I prayed, ‘0 God, who created man and gave him reason, direct me what to do. Shall I go on? And a volece commanded me, ‘Go n, and I went on.” Was there evara o touching Christian jelter than that which he wrote to his wife {rom his Sagehip “My dearest wile, I write and I am going into Mobile bay in the runing if God is my leader, and I hope He is, and jo Him [ place my trust, 1{ Hethinks it is the proper place for me to die, I am ready to submit to His will in that as ail other things. God bless and arve you my dear boy, 1 iythiog ne, May His your dear m Cneerful to t Tallapoosa in the last “It would be weil if I The sublime Was never most and © lite he yi i hie Je rd? mo m ivage Lie aver 100K, lied now in harness, service for the dea i ntely rendered did all the der as his and well did the minute and the | toll as io a proce #£ in its ranks the President of th States and cabinet and the mighty if land and ses the old admiral was eartied, amid hun. dreds of thousands of uncoversad heads or Broadway, and laid on Lis pillow of du beautiful Woodlawn, September 30, the pomp of our autumnal forests, wi We bail with thanks the pew generation of naval heroes, those of the year 1898, We are too near their marvelous deeds to fully appreciate them, A century from now poetry and sculptures and painting and his. tory will do them better justion than we ean dothem now. A defeat at Manila would been an infinite disaster. Foreign nations not over fond of our American ine 4 th Bs & fa His and the war 80 many months past would bave been raging still, and perhaps a bun- dred thousand graves would have opened to take down our slain soldiers and saliors, It took this couniry three vears to get over the disaster at Ball Run at the open ing of the civil war. How many ysars it would have required to recover from a the opening of the Spanish war I eannot say. God averted to our navy under Admiral Dewey, whose comm the nation whose welcoming cheers wiil not cease to resound until to-morrow, and next day in the eapital of the nation the presented amid booming cannonade and embannered hosts, and our autumnal nights shall become a conflagration of splendor, but the tramp of these proces. sions ana the flash of that sword and the huzza of that gieotiog and the roar of those guns and the iHumioation of those nights will be geen and heard as long as a page of American history remains inviolate, Especially let the country boys of America join in these greetings to the returned heroes of Manila, It is their work. The chief character in all the scone is the onee country lad, George Dewey, Let the Vermonters come down and find him older, but the same modest, unassuming, almost bashfal person that they went to school with and with whom they sported on the piayground, The hon- crs of all the world eannot spoil him, foetv woeks ago at a banquet in England some of the titled noblemen were afl fronted because our American minister lenipotentiary associated the name of Dewey with that of Lord Nelson, As well might we be affronted because the name of Nelson is associated with that of our most renowned admiral, The one man in the other. So this da Sympathising with all the festivities and cele past weet and with all the festivities and the old shi orably diseharged and at home having ro sumed citizenship. And ys men of the past, our Inst battle on the seas fought, " fights with sin and deaths and hell make ready. Strip your vessel forthe fray. Hang the sheet chains over the side, Send down the topraliant masta, the wheel, Rig in the fiying jib boom, Bteer straight for the shining shore, and hear the shout of the great Commander of earth and haaven as He cries from the An Incident in the Spanish War. Dickson had been on an English ship that was used gs a transport all through the Turko-Russinn war, This made hmm a man of some mportance with us, as he was the only one who had geen fighting, and we would listen with respect to the endless stories he had to tell of the Turks whom they transported, who lived on grapes, and who killed of the crew caught helping themselves, 1 saw him again on the street, not long ago, nnd he had more tales to tell, of a later war—how the I'ttle craft he was on was sent in to investigate an un in the harbor of soe shore one night murked obstruction Havana, depending on the darkness, the war and her small size to keep them safe; how they were nearly through when they found in the inviting dazzle of a search-light, and the next minute the shells were all about them. They were so close in and slow that they could get out of range far some niinutes, and color, themselves 0 not hope to already one blade of the propeller had been shot away: but long before that, at the very first shot, with the fine in stinet that sends a hen after the flagship had swu a circle, and, regardless of reefs, her poverty of mpty bunk- ers, had run in between the litle boat out of had Her own superstruc her chick CNS, aground in armor, or her e and the forts, and convoyed Ler way as safely ax if she harm's been in dry dock, ture was hit repeatedly, Captain's and a hrough the cabin; the noblesse oblige to be ex San Francisco, the neat ted] ship in the navy ary Reserve Wanted a Good-Looking Picture. al phot rapher tells a stor) ame into th neryon 1 reOonversation vas painfully ugly, and, awkward blushing and in asked arvisg Deaths from Fool Binding. nese saving is, “For en aft Hankow, wh liead of the Girl Establishment thers irs in her ¥ “Oh! true of CYOR: » const wis wonld be a gross « g fagueration in Central China: but to my horror “But Intimate she went of more here China more tnore) One Failing of Women. said inquiringly, “ghie has a good education?” workl”™ wife. “Spent three years at a ing school just before she society debut” “1 wonder what kind they used.” he went on, “I'm sure I don’t know, Why?" “Oh, nothing much, It's evident that some of these girls’ schools must nse a grammar that gives nothing but dashes ne punctuation marks and I am mildly curious to see one." --Chicago Post, “Of course,” he “Rost nn the answered his finish made her of grammar A Mother Stork’s Devotion Among many stories of the affection of dumb creatures for their young, this from a German paper is peculiarly pa- thetic: “At Neuendorf the lightning struck the gable end of a barn where for years a palr of storks had built their nest. 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