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!
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of
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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
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and ©
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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
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One Failing of Women.
said inquiringly,
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workl”™
wife. “Spent three years at a
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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. The flames soon caught the
nest in which the helpless brood wae
piteously screaming. The mother
gtork now protecting spread ont her
wing over the young ones, with whom
she was burned alive, although she
might have saved herself easily by
flight." Christian Herald.
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He Proved the Exception,
“It's not so difficult to do two things
at once,” remarked the facetious jailer.
“And keep it up?” asked the prisoner,
“Yeu; keep it up for years.”
“For instance?’ said the prisoner in.
quiringly.
“Well, you ean do right while you're
doing time,” answered the jailer,
Fortunately for the jailer there were
bars between the prisoner and him,
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who has to deal
dull-witted jurors.
with Ignorant
A jury of this kind
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