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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
‘_ l e Lire.
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.
Are you and I ready to do fli`e`d\.\
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mental, *physical and spiritual equip-
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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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“bush
It they who intercepted
plhegffat the southern
he had an oppo y
uish himself iii battle If
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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
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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
h
o
d
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
rtumt t
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
he
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
tic icebergs.
brave
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the interest of science or the search' _I II II ‘
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be the
The
for national offense
the American navy
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of our Presidents have been elected  19 9V*W5
to the White House on- account of Dem'-\°°~t° an DHUPUS
shea- military mein-as. washington ery” Government 31493
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of other nations which are necessary and in him I place my-rtifiist If he-
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