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REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A EULOGISTIC SERMON

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HISTORY OF THE U.S. NAVY.

Praise For the Heroic Deeds of Aiwricln

lldnejarkets I-`ro`m Time of Captain Hullof tho Constitution to Admiral

lleviey of the Olympia-In tlie Good

Q ime to Come. However, "Gallant

pe" Shall Pass No More Out to

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1 Ente eco ` Act of Parliament of Can-

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ap ‘r _-Qslcbration ‘ot Memorial

,4\#_\¥d , °.l,°°f~¢i°f_§ °f l°ldim‘ fwi\i¢ii.iiei“eveiis&e' sublime gigaves lk. _ g recalled in his 1; rifice of th? southern people

moqiing the services ilieve. Day in and day out, 7 loathe nation by American ‘ and year out, the

'sailors ad pleaded that they, too, ’ blockaded the southern

lbs remembered in the patriotic trib- gute. Hi; text wee Isa. xxxiii, 21;*

,"Neither,, Qiall ¢s1lant‘ ship pass pieces by Federal guns. therebys” " ` ern soldiers could not buy

to, sane many interesting lights Thereeycm its museum and its anti” quated' cannon mounted in tlieyards and its piles ot empty shells There were its famous dry dock and the great sheds under which lay the keels and the skeleton ribs of those massive frames that were laid and lmit together toward the close f the civil war. but newer finished There were also its uniformed sailors and marines and its buildings dlled with food and clothing soon to be lent to the different naval stations of the world There often lay the training ships and the great men-of- ' ar Just in from foreign ports But

me the most interesting place of

all in the Brooklyn navv yard, Where I used to play as a. boy, was 'Rotten r w ’ Alongside of ts #charts were tied some of the decay- ing vessels that had helped to make Amerlcafs valor respected and ad mired around the world These ships were too old to voyage the sea and too weak to defy the enemy's shells They were also too sacred to be split sip for kindlmg

Isaiah has been walking in imagi-

nation along the Rotten Row ofa millennial dawn “ith prophetic vision he has been looking ahead, to the time when* all the siavies of the world shall go out of commission ,

_‘__-,gf _eatery q deck of every

" _ ` ` __ 8P1@§'<>_`__,\1nd ' attcrinfTwt of the” little children when the war ships decks shall no longer be slippery with hu

man blood Neither Shall galliuif-

ship pass thereby translated into the language of ordinary life, means » Neither shall gallant men-of-war -ever .again sail to destroy life- And _yet Isaiah ~speaking of this glad- some day cannot refrain from pay

those patriotic sailors who have al- wavs been willing to fight and. ` necessary, to die for their country's cause. I-le speaks of the man-of-war in words of martial praise. He calls _the naval vessel a gallant ship ` Ought the jack tars_ .of old to be

more honored than those of the pre- sent time? Cannot we adord, on this Memorial Sunday to praise the heroic deeds of American bluejackets “who fought 'under Captain Hull in the Constitution, under James Law-_ rence in the Chesapeake under De- catur iif the A United States, under Farragut 'in the Hartford under Dewey in the Olympia? If the most

¢=:_ -_ _ conspicuous monu_ine_nt,_i_rL all London

was reared inTra`Ialgar"squai‘e to the memory of Admiral Nelson, sure- .]_v we, on this last Sabbith pr&eQ-

ing our amud g dedicate at lea.st.,_$1§ _ noble tars who, in the Kmerican wars won immortal fame upon the

% _ _ `§§‘Gallant ships" is a

~ ts Uuifwmn-of-has 1veq'elii§_i~l;_i

have composed the American navy

from 1776 down to the present time.

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forth bravely and cheerfully, no mat-

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,V _vei,'y.:c<i_nGde_nce ia yourselves g and

our wiir'tugiiéss`“td go ahead iimean'

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It they who intercepted plhegffat the southern

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and closer together lo grapple in mortal combat. What man is there whose check does n0t 1111511 Whllll he hears about thc duel of the Consti- tution and the..Guerrici°e? What Ani- crican`s eye .docs not flash when he

,ses .Commodore Hull commanding | »

his. flag officer, Lieutenant M,ori‘is to withhold the tire of his gunners until the two vessels were within speaking distance, then, with cannon double shotted, to send forth' their

messengers of ._dcatl_'i? But thfelgreatv-_ .est work of a iiiwy is-nétlalwhys in

lighting, but may be in patrollinga blockade. The victories of U. S. Grant would never have been won linrl he not had the assistance of the Auiericnn sailor as well as of the soldier in l~‘uc. The value of the

_seiwices the sailors rendered in that

nwlul conflict cannot be

sorely needed. It was ance that produced the

southern armies`¥ere more to death' than t ey were

for

baeks, or blankets for their camps, MW with ._ cout

or medicines for their sick The pat

ear:up"their linen dresses, that the

theirs Are we sulking m our homes and refusing to faithfully perform the vital daily tasks of an incon spicuous life merely because the newspapers do not report the orders

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we give to the cook or how many yards of clot by week sell over the id Farragut had to wait was over sixty years of

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American navll omcer coul ly uncomplainingly and perform the humble! duties of life until he was an old

to_tl!e grave, surely we can

bebi‘av*e and true 111%

national statesman as well as heroic

surgeons might ,have bandages for York Boston the bleeding-wounds Tea and codes-. ymémq Qui by were banished from the southern buqmmt exam, 5 tables during those sad years lou, ‘mount unless Let us ask ourselves if we are dgfand om- parte

ready to do the necessary routine safety for the work of our lives as the sailors in our national

the pest have been ready to do ati-eng ships and

Let us

about Week

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ous dunes and has given us to do but as white angels of The American. navy should he hon! “WW 5‘*l3F¢|3 Ulliwd

ored.- Upo 1;! glorious muster ioll °\`s NW" d°°1°»*`° th” are ce. heels the names or inter ey ervrvvfletvd by C°==_sr°== 101*

and' Garfield 'are' among the number. may be di’m°'°t1°d

But the American soidier rareiy has suns and armament-S the opportunity to study statesci-aff. may sei forth been as has the sailor It was only com- m1S9i°l°»§`1°S °l' f005

paratively a few years ago that;-for ~ 4

eign lands were brought _ ` tbrrf “V °”

touch with our national if ctllfiil,

Thus every _naval which touched o` a foreign port not only had to have an men, both in sailors bunk and a captain who could sail the seas, otlicers cabin, whose indueiice has but also a. naval d_iplomat,` `w1io *in "permeated the whole ser ' Some dependent of tbe“liome government, people _are apt to thi of the had to decide many questions which, American sailors as e.

ongby decided might involve his p drinking carous

co ntry in bloody international `» true; Some of Chris- strife. ,tians have worn the

Our national indebtedness, to our Did' ever a Christian write a

navy is not coniined“"'to _itsf-prowess’ _ beautiful letter than this; which Ad-

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received in that rescue expedition, took his own life. I said then what I say now: Any plan conceived in

after truth, any expedition which 'is' born with the hope of learning somo- thing not known before, is worthy of sacrifice. This was the de8ire,_thu.t drove ‘Columbus across the seas. This was the desire which made Ga- lilei defy the hierarchy of Rome and stick to the truth that the cart);

moves 'round the sun. And' this i,`§»

the purpose ,i1vliich_ has niadg iiiglny i’5o`o1'e’ naval 'liéro` lay dbwn"1iis"--`iii_’e

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northern snows, by the towering memorial

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r£n brain T9 _ of our Presidents have been elected 19 9V*W5

to the White House on- account of Dem'-\°°~t° an DHUPUS

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