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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1883.
YOY.'VRY.
MY OWN SHALL COME.
Sorone I fold my hands and wait,
Nor care for wind, or tide, or sea,
I rave no more ’gainst time or fate,
For lo! my own shall oome to me.
I stay my haste, 1 make delays,
For whatavails this eager pace?
I stand amid the eternal ways
And what is mine shall know my face.
Asleep, awake, by night or day,
The friends I seok are seeking me;
No wind can drive my hark astray
Nor change the tide of destiny.
What matter if I stand akme?
I wait with joy the coming years,
My heart shall reap where it has sown
And garner up the fruit of tears.
The planets know their own and draw,
The tide returns to meet the sea;
I stand serene midst nature’s law
And know my own shall come to me.
The stars come nightly to the sky.
The dew falls on the thirsty lea;
Nor time, not space, nor deep, nor high;
Can keep my own away from me.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. DeWITT TALMAGE
[The Sermons of Dr. Talmage are publish
ed in pamphlet form hi Geo. A. Sparks,
48 Bible House, New York. A number
containing 26 Sermons is issued every
three months. Price 30 cents, ?1 per an
num].
The Sword Sheathed in Flowers.
“The Lord of Hosts is His name.”—
Isaiah, xlvii., 4.
Under the God of armies we assem
ble tc-day. He has mingled in all the
great fights of the ages. He was pres
ent at the awful hemorrhages of the
world, Marathon, and Salamis, and
Navarre, and Chalons, and Cannae,
and Sodan, and Waterloo, and Gettys
burg. He saw all the armies march,
and knows where they fell. He pre
sides over national cemeteries and grave
trenches, and not a private soldier in
all the centuries was sacrificed but
God knows where his dust is as plain
ly as though he had been covered by a
mountain of marble glorified from base
to top with epitaph and eulogium;over
all the armies of the living, over all
the armies of the dead. “The Lord of
Hosts is His name.” In this spring
time the nation kneels and with cool
bandage of garlands binds up the
wounds of battle. As the ages go by
war becomes more and more destruct
iveness of its weaponry, but to the fact
that the most of those who fall in bat
tle now are of the better classes of the
nation, while those who fell in s other
days were for the most part the worse
classes of the nations. Mr. Blunt in
1717, in his book entitled Institutions
of Military Law, gives his opinion of
the European armies of that day when
he says: “It the infamous men and
all the criminals, and all the atheists
an outlaws, and all the dastardly peo
ple were weeded out of the armies of
Europe, there would not he much left.”
Flogging and poor pay made them still
more ignoble. Officers were appointed
to compel them to drink their ration of
one pint of spirits a day. There were
noble men in battle in those centuries,
hut the moral character of the armies
of olden time was ninety-five per cent,
worse than the moral character of the
armies of modern times. By so much
is war now more to be deplored, be
cause it takes the picked men of the na
tion. In this great national observ
ance, last week at the South and this
week at the North, the nation has re
corded and will record the havoc of
battle. You have only just to glance
at the history of the world to get your
illustrations. When Napoleon march
ed up to Moscow, for 160 miles he de
stroyed every house and every barn.
Our Revolutionary war cost the En
glish government $680,000,000. In
twenty-two years ending about 1820
there were expended in war $15,000,-
000,000. About that time the esti
mate was made that in the history of
the world there had been expended $35-
000,000,000. But all that ciphering
was done before our great European and
American wars had been plunged. Ev
er and anon as a nation we go into a
discussion of the heavy taxes, and we
ascribe it to this administration, this
line of policy or that line of policy,
when the simple fact is we are now
paying tor the ambulances, for the grave
trenches, for the exploded fortresses,
tor the hospitals, for four years of na
tional martyrdom. But all this loss of
property is most insignificant as com
pared with the destruction of human
life. Ah! what a story that is. In
one battle of Julius Cmsar 400,000
were slain. In one campaign of Xer
xes 5,000,000 slain. Under Genghis
Khan at Herat 1,600,000 slain. At
Nisher 1,747,000 slain. Because it is
a great way off in time does not lessen
the calamity. At Ostend 120,000
were slain. At Akir 300,000 were
slain. At the siege of Troy 1,816,000
fell. The Tartar and African wars de
stroyed 180,000,000-lives. The wars
against the Turks and Saracens cost
180,000,000 lives. Our civil war cost
1,000,000 lives, falling either on bat
tlefield or in hospital. “Oh,” you
say, “that is a very small item to add
to all that.” If a member of your
family hid fallen you would not say
that. Thirty-five times the present
population of the world gone down in
For Dyspepsia,
Costive ness,
|Sick Headache,
Chronic Diar
rhoea, Jaundice,
Impurity of the
Blood, Fever and
I Ague, Malaria,
and all Diseases
caused by De-
battle. Oh, it seems to me it is time
for every Christian man and woman to
pray God day and night that war may
cease. Enough the tears. Enough
the blood. Enough the partings.
Enough the agony. Enough the mar
tyrdom.
The nation also in these decorative
observances proposes to educate the
new generation, and impress them with
the facts that they would not otherwise
be impressed with. You subtract 18-
64 or’6s, when the war ended, from
1883—subtract 1865 from 1883, and
then you will get an intimation of what
vast multitudes must have been horn
since the war closed, and how many
people must have been so young at the
time of the war they had no apprecia
tion of its horrors. There is not a
person in this house to-day under 26
years of age who has any appreciation
of what we went through. Young man
do you remember it? You say: “I dim
ly remember that my mother sworned
away while reading a newspaper, and
I have a dim remembrance of my fath
er’s body having been brought home
wrapped in a flag, and then I remem
ber a great many people came there and
prayed, and then my mother got weak
er and weaker, and after a while there
were more people in the house to pray.
They told me she was dead.” But
there are hundreds, perhaps thousands,
in this house to-day who do not re
member the roll of a drum or the tramp
of a regiment, or a sigh or a tear, of
that tornado of woe that swept over
this land Until there was one dead in
every house. Four years of bloodshed,
four years of parting, four years of cof
fins and hearses and dirges. It was
hell let loose. What waiting for news.
Oh, how we scrutinized the morning
and evening papers to see whether
there were any familiar names there.
One day the papers saying the next
day the battle would open; the next
day the papers saying the battle was
going on; the next day the papers say
ing the battle was still raging; the
next day the papers saying 30,000 were
slain and giving the names of the gen
erals who fell, but not of the private
soldiers. Waiting for news. A few
days afterwards a wagon going through
the streets of the town with a load of
wounded, but no news from our hoy.
After a while the paper comes with a
long list of the wounded, long list of
the dead, long list of the missing, and
in that last list our boy. Missing!
Where missing? By what Btream? In
what woods? Was he hurt when he
was missing? Missing! Oh, the strain
was too much for some! That wife’s
brain gave way, and ever since
she has been walking the floor, of the
asylum, or looking out the front win
dow at the path as though she expect
ed someone to come up the path, and
up the stairs, and soliloquizing month
after month and year after year: “Miss
ing, missing, missing!” What made
it all the worse was, it might have
been avoided. There was no more rea
son that that war should occur than I
should this minute drive a dagger
through your heart. There were a few
sensible Christian philanthropists at
the North and at the South derided and
caricatured, but they had the right of
it. Christian philanthropists at the
North and the South said: “Let the
North pay a certain amount of money
for the freedom of the slaves, and then
let the South sell out.” The North
replied: “I won’t give a cent.” The
South said. “I won’t sell out.” The
battle opened. The North paid more
for carrying on the war than would
have bought all the slaves, and the
South had to give up slavery anyhow.
It would have been better for the
North to have paid a certain amount of
money and saved 500,000 brave men,
and for the South to have sold out her
slavery and saved her 500,000 brave
men. I swear you to-day by the graves
of your fathers and brothers and sons
to an intenser hucred for the champion
curse of the universe—war. May the
hot bolts of God’s omnipotent wrath
strike it down. Imprison it in the
deepest dungeon of the eternal peniten
tiary. Cleave it with all the sabres
that ever glittered in the battle. Put
it into the hottest fires kindled by all
the consuming homesteads. Deeper
down ana in a hotter flame let it he
consumed, and let it gather up all the
agonies of eternity as well as time in
its accursed heart. By the millions of
the graves of its victims I curse it.
We want a time of aihitration and
peace instead of a time of war.
In this great national ceremony we
also honor courage. Those men were,
many of them, volunteers, not con
scripts. They might have sent sub
stitutes-, they might have got oft on
furlough, or they might have deserted.
The fact that they lie in their graves
to-day shows that they were brave
men. Brave at the front, brave at the
cannon’s mouth, brave under the sur
geon’s knife, brave on the lonely picket
watch, brave in their dying message to
the home circle. When next Wed
nesday we put garlands on their tombs
we honor bravery. We want to-day
more of it: The church of God wants
more men than can stand under fire.
The lion of worldly derision roars and
the sheep tremble. In our great re
formatory and Christian movements
how many at the first shot fall back.
The great hindrance to the cause of
God to-day is the inanity, the vacuity,
the soft prettiness, the namby-pamby
ism. of professed Christians. They go
into the battle not with warrior’s
gauntlet, but with kid gloves, and
they have to be very careful they do
not clutch the sword too tight lest the
glove split at the back. We want in
church of God and in reformatory
movements more backbone, more met
tle, more courage. Quit yourselves
like men.
“Thy saints in all this glorious war
Shallconqucr though they die;
They see the triumph from afar
And seize it with their eye.”
Yes, in this national ceremony we
also put honor upon self-sacrifice. To
those men home and country meant
just as they do to us. How did they
feel? I can tell you just how they
felt. Just as we would feel to-morrow
morning if we were going off from home
with the prospect of never coming back
again, for the intelligent soldier not
only sees battle ahead, but malarial
sickness and exhaustion. Those men
did not leave because they preferred
the camp to the home circle, because
they liked the music of the drum and
fife better than they liked the music of
the domestic circle. They sacrificed all
for others, Murfreesboro’ and South
Mountain and the swamps of the
Chickahommy were not playgrounds.
If there is any sublimity beyond that
spirit of self-sacrifice I do not know
what it is. If a man keep three-fourths
and gives to someone one-fourth, that
is honorable; if a man divide even with
others, that is generous; hut a man
gives all away and keeps nothing for
himself, that is magnanimity, Christ
like. And that those boys did. Take
a girdle and measure yourself. Meas
ure over the heart. Is your girth forty
or fifty inches around? Having meas
ured your body, have you measured
yourself? or having measured your
self around your heart, do you find it
takes a girdle large enough to encircle
the earth? You who do not understand
us dry theologians when we talk about
vicarious suffering, go and look at the
soldiers’ graves. That is what it
means. Blood for others, suffering for
others. Sepulchre for others. A few
years ago at Arlington Heights, Wash
ington, I was called to deliver the
oration at the decoration of the graves*
and I was not so much impressed with
the attendance of the President and the
Cabinet and the officers of the army and
navy and foreign ministers, as I was
impressed with the epitaph repeated
all the way around, “Unknown!”
“Unknown!” “Unknown!” The time
has got to come when the United States
government will take off that epitaph.
They are no more unknown. We
have found them out at last. They are
the beloved ones of the nation. It is
high time that the heathen Goddess of
Liberty standing on the top of the
Capitol at Washington should be
brought down, for I have no faith in
the morals of a heathen goddess, and
instead of that let there be in all the
national cemeteries a statute in the
form of a Christian woman, with one
hand on an open Bible and her feet on
the Rock of Ages, and with the other
hand pointing down to those graves,
saying: “These are my sons; they died
that 1 might live.” Away with the
misnomer. We have found thee out at
last. It is of very little importance
what name they received in baptism of
water. In the mightier and holier
baptism of blood we have found out
who they are, and in this springtime
the nation knsels down and hugs them
to her heart and says: “Mineforever.”
Yea, we mean by this national cere
mony a defence of our country in the
future. We want all these young men
next Wednesday to watch how the
nation puts garlands down upon the
resting-place of those who died for their
country, and they will say: “Well, the
nation does not forget its dead, and if
God ever calls me to battle I will go
forth. Once a year, at any rate, we
shall be resurrected in the memory of
the nation by the annual decoration.”
There will he no more war between the
North and the South. We have had
enough of that. Once in a while the
old decayed bone of contention, Ameri
can slavery, is picked up by some poli
tician, who hopes to gnaw something off
of it, hut the war between the North
and South is ended, and there will
never be another war. As to foreign
invasion lam not certain. I do not
know that all those forts around New
York harbor are going to sleep through
this century. Ido not know but Barn
egat Lighthouse may look oft' upon a
navy proposing to come up and destroy
our cities. There were nations when
we were in our civil conflict that could
hardly keep their hands off of us. I
do not know hut half a dozen foreign
nations might hand together, saying;
“We’ll put an end to that nuisance
across the water.” An inventor in the
city of Washington told me he had
contrived a weapon of war that could
be used in self-defence, hut could not
be used in aggressive war. I said to
him, “Get out a patent for that as
quick as you can; get it introduced
among all nations; when you get that
thing introduced—that contrivance of
yours introduced—nations will have the
millennium.” A weapon good for self
defence, hut of no use for aggression.
When I spoke against war I said noth
ing against self-defence. I have no
right to go over on my neighbor’s
premises and assault him, but if a bur
glar at midnight breaks into my house
and proposes the assassination of my
family, if I can borrow a gun and load
it and can aim it straight enough, I
will shoot him. I am not so certain
about invasion—invasion of foreign
forces. If the time should ever come
when our land should be invaded by a
foreign enemy, then we want men like
1812 and 1864—men who know how
to fight and how to die. Then we want
all up and down the coast Pulaski and
Fort Sumter, joining in the same
chorus of thunder with Fort Lafayette
and Fort Hamilton. Then we want
the regiments to go out in the same
great host. Fifteenth Massachusetts
Volunteers, Sixteenth South Carolina
sharpshooters, Seventeenth Pennsylva
nia Riflemen, Eighteenth Mississippi
Cavalry. Forward, the whole line. I
have no faith in that cry, “No North, 1
no South, no East, no West.” We
want each section to keep its peculiari
ties and its preferences, and to be one
of the four in the great harmony—the
bass, the alto, the soprano, the tenor in
the grand march of the Union. Ido
not know hut that in order to settle all
our home difficulties we will have to
have a foreign conflict. I pray God ,
not, but I sometimes fear. j
Again, in this national ceremony we
propose the beautification of all the
tombs in our cemeteries, not only of
those who fell in the war, hut those 1
who died in their beds, or in our arms, I
or on our laps. Have you not noticed
the change ? Asa result of this 1
national observance of the decoration 1
of the graves, ail our cemeteries have 1
come to arboriculture and floriculture,
and there is many a tombstone that
was planted thirty years ago that has
been straightened, and many a stone
cutter has again evoked the half-oblit
erated epitaph. It is beautiful. Take
forth the flowers. Put them on the
graves of the loved ones. Only one
flower perhaps you can take. Well,
one flower for you may mean as much
as the Duke of Wellington’s catafalque.
It is all we can do for them now. It
broke our hearts when they went away
from us. Get over it! We never will
get over it; we cannot get over it. I
From all these banks of flowers let j
there breathe the promise of a resur- j
rection. The Hebrews used to come
from the graves of their dead, and j
pull up the glass by handfuls and then i
throw the grass over their shoulders,'
suggestive of the resurrection. In this !
annual decoration we do not pluck up 1
the grass, hut we pluck up the flowers, j
and instead of throwing them over our
heads we put them down over the heart '
that used to love us, and over the feet j
that used to run in kind ministries for
us, and over the lips from which we j
took the kiss in the last parting. Ii
noticed in the cemetery over one grave
this inscription: “A night’s lodging
on the way to the new Jerusalem.” J
Comfort one another with these words.'
May the hand that wipes away the
tears from all eyes sweep your cheek
with softest tenderness. May the Christ i
of Mary and Martha and Lazarus en- !
fold you in His arms. May the white- j
robed angels that sat at the tomb of
Christ roll away the stone from the 1
door ot your dead in radiant resurrec- j
tion. “The Lord'shall descend with a
shout, and the voice of the archangel.” j
Then the Dead March in Saul will be- '
oome the Hallelujah Chorus.
A Boy who Opposed the Advauee- '
meat of Medical Science.
Dr. Ike was called to see old Ned’s
son and after several visits the doctor 1
said to the anxious father:
“Ned, I doan wanter distress yer,'
but that boy can’t git well. De con- j
glomeration oh de merabrena hab dun '
sot in.”
“Wall, I reckon dat will kill him,”
Ned replied. “I doan see how a chile
wid his weak cbnstitution an’ conven
tion can get ober such oneaseness oh’ i
de flesh. So you gins him up, Doc
tor?”
“Yaas, 1 issues my decrement right
lieali. Dat hoy can’t live five hours.”
About two weeks later Ned met the
doctor and said:
“I thought you gin that hoy up 9 ”
“I did. Ain’t he dead yit?”
“Dead,” repeated Ned, contemptu
ously,* “why he’s choppin’ wood dis
mornin’.”
The doctor reflected for a moment,
and said: “Dat’s a nice way to fool
wid medical science. How does yer
expeck folks to hab confidence in de
advancement of medical diskiveries
when a boy acks dat way. Dat hoy,
sah, lifts his self np to dispute de ’stah
lished rules oh de school ob physicians.
I’se done wid him.”
“I’se glad ob it sah, hut yo’self
must hab made a mistake.”
“No, I didn’t, case I nnderstan’s me
business.”
“I means dat yer mout hab lef’ too
soon. If yer’d stayed dar awhile lon
ger yer might hab ’stablished de proof
ob yer proclamation.”
“Look lieali, Ned, yer’d better let
me go an’ see dat boy agin.”
“No, I’se much ohleeged ter yer.
I’se got a heap oh work to do an’ I
need de chile. Go off somewhere an’
pizen a cat.”
Ancient Dishes.
The British museum has just acquir
ed an interesting collection of thirty
nine silver objects which gives an in
sight into the daily life of the Baby
lonians, and reminds us of the discov
ery of the bird dealer’s shop at Pom
pei. These objects, which were all
found together ou the site of Babylon,
consists of fragments of silver dishes,
the broken handle of a vase and coins,
most of the latter being defaced and
clipped 1 . It is easy to see that all have
been broken purposely by a practiced
hand, with the view of using the metal
again, and we may fairly conclude that
the collection is the remains of a silver
smith’s or coiner’s shop. Among the
coins is a Lycian one in good preserva
tion. So far as can be judged from the
vase handle and dishes, the art is dis
tinctly Babylonian under Persian in
fluence, and the workshop may date
from the conquest of Alexander.
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