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THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
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and on the 26th of April, I860, the
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rness and hope for the renewed union,
flowers upon the graves of both Fed
and Confederates. This act elicited the
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By the flow of the inland river
Whence the fleets of war have fled,
Where the blades of the grave grass quiver
Asleep are the ranks of the dead.
P Under the sod and dew, *
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the one the Blue,
Under the other the Gray.
These in the robings of glory,
* Those in the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle blood gory
In the dusk of eternity meet.
^ Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the laurel the Blue,
Under the willow the Gray.
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From the silence of sorrowful hours
The desolate mourners go,
Lovingly laden with flowers
Alike for the friend and the foe.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the roses the Blue,
Under the lilies the Gray.
So with an equal splendor
The morning sun rays fall,
With a touch impartially tender
- On the blossoms blooming for all.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Broidered with gold the Blue,
Mellowed with gold the Gray.
So, when the summer calleth
On forest and field of grain,
With an equal murmur falleth
The cooling drip of the rain.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Wet with the rain the Blue,
Wet with the rain the Gray.
Sadly, but not with upbraiding,
The generous deed was done;
In the storm of the years that are fading
No braver battle was won.
Under the sod and the dew,*
Waiting the judgment day,
Under the blossoms the Blue,
Under the garlands the Gray.
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They banish our anger forever
When they laurel the graves of our dead.
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day,
Love and tears for the Blue,
Tears and love for the Gray.
—Francis Miles French.
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ITENT, JOB JOHNSTON.
Strength of the Southern Armies.
The strength of the Confederate armies
cannot be stated exactly, but we can come
very near it by the well known proportions
of age and sex in a given population. The
largest fraction of a whole people ever put in
the field by any European power was not
quite one in seven; the total white population
of the Confederate states was 5,600,000. If,
therefore, they had secured every available
man, their total of enlisted men, excluding
recounts in successive organizations, would
have been 800,000. But it is evident that
they did *not secure such a force, for it is
proved that at least 50,000 of their able bodied
men were fugitives in the north (“refugees”),
and the lowest estimate of Unionists in the
mountains of Tennessee, North Carolina,
Georgia and Alabama—resisting all drafts,
and therefore a negative force—puts them at
40,000. It is also conceded by the historians
df both sections (see Blaine, Vol. I, pp. 556-7,
also Pollard and Greeley on same subject)
that the number of Confederates from the
border states was equaled or exceeded by the
number of Federal soldiers from the Con
federate states.
Much is said of the “sweeping conscription
acts” in the south, and arguing thereon some
have rashly concluded that the Confederates
had 1,(XX),000 men. But the first enforcement
of those acts was in July, 1863. when nearly
half the south was within the Federal lines,
and the rigid enforcement was in 1864, and
was only in five states and small portions of
two others. It is also a fact not generally
known that the Confederate conscription
laws provided for a much larger list of ex
eniptions than the Federal. for Making these the low
est reasonable deductions causes, we
should conclude that the total of actual men
in the Confederate armies from Bumter to
; Appomattox was considerably below 700,000,
and that there never were in active service at
! one time 500.,000. Exc luding re-enlistments,
the actual men in the Federal armies did not
much, if any, exceed 1,800,000, and the
! highest estimate would not put the number
I in active service at any one tune over 800,000
Matthew gives us but che most condensed
epitome or substance of what Jesus said on
this occasi oil He addressed all present and
ail future t>ellevers in HihL He asserts that
ail power of government, of guidance, of in¬
fluence. of authority is His, not only on earth
hut hi heaven Seated on His mediatorial
throne. He declares that He is the Head of the
Church, the Guide of all the nations, the
Director of the course of human history, mak¬
ing the enemies of religion subserve His pur
pose* He sav* that He would have power
over nature and Its laws, power over the >:t
ventious ot men, so that commerce with its
railroads and steamships amt telegraphs
should carry His Gospel He tells us that He
has m heaven the power of God, t>eing God
overall the power to give life, pardon and
peace the power to plant new graces in the
renewed heai*t. the power to comfort and
strengthen the power to send the Holy
Bpirtt yea all the powers thatconstitute the
divine nature and character were 11is* to ex*
erci.se Glorious truth, we have an t-ver liv¬
ing. ail powerful Saviour
V 19 Christ has brought His disciples to¬
gether in order that he might disperse them
ovet the world to tiear the good tidings of
salvation to all mem He tells them that be¬
cause all power in beaveu and earth are His,
therefore should they go forth to the ends of
the earth to proclaim His name AJ! His
power is pledged to each one of His servants
for protection and help They had the
promise ot Christ’s sternal and unlimited
powei to back them. Dangers, trials and
persecution awaited them, but they had a
watch word such as conqueror never had to
quicken their zeal and to assure them of sue
cess. Gut of weakness they were made
strong
V ‘JO The business of Christ’s ministers
and people is u> "observe all things that
Christ commanded.” The word "observe"
menus not merely to do them, but to keep a
watch ov»fr them. The doctrines mid pre
ceptsol Christ are to tie protected and handed
dowu to other generations. The preacher's
tnif fidelit y consists in this, that he preaches
uothing but what Christ has taught. While
there may tie new methods ot teaching, the
truth is the >pme now Unit It was IflUU years
ago Nothing is new uothing l**eomes oh« n
lete \V« want no new Gospel. Christ prom
lses to His true Church His presence to the
end of time He does not say "I will lie,” but “l
ain” with you. He is an ever present Saviour
By His risen Life, by His Providence, i>y
Hu Spirit. Christ bos engaged to bo with
each one and ali of His people for all time
'Jo have Ilia presence we must be united to
Him. •‘Now is Christ with us. then tut flio
end ot the world* we shall be with Him where
lie is." Keh^ff. “He may hide himself, but
He uevei ulisents Himself from us '* “A1
way.” i a, all days, every day weekday;
and Sundays, fair days und foul days.
“Though left alone, like orphan children in
a cold, unkind world, the disciples were not
to think they were deserted. Their Master
would lie ever ‘with them. Though com¬
missioned to do a work as hard as that of
Moses when sent to Pharaoh, they were not
discouraged. Their Master would certainly
be -with them.' Christ is ‘with us’ always,
wherever we go He came to be ‘Emmanuel,
G*#l with us. when He first came into th<»
world He is with us daily to pardon and
forgive, with us daily to sanctify and
strengthen with usually to defend and keep;
witr us daily to lead and to guide, w ith us ill
sorrow and with us in joy, with us in sick
ness and with us in health, with us ir. life
and with us in death, with us in time, ami
with us in eternity It it everything to be a
real Christian. None have such a King, such
a Priest, such a constant Companion and such
an unfailing Friend as the true servants of
Christ." Kyle.
Let us say Amen to this blessed truth, ami
with our hearts believe it to our great uml
eudless comfort, Amea
Pleasure* of Anticipation,
Three-year-old Ralph, who had l**en eating
grapes, begged for another bunch which ho
6a w on the buffet “No," said his mamma,
“you have had plenty this morning, 1 will
give you that bunch to-morrow."
Half an hour after ho uppeared with bis
lips suspiciously stained. “Ralph," asked
his mamma, gravely, “how did ti ose stains
conn* on your lips/"
“Mamma.” to replied, quite as gravely,
“they urefrom the grapes 1 am going to
eat to morrow."—Harper’s Bazar.
Picine is the great specific for coughs,
colds, sore throat, &c. Try it Ask yout
druggist for it and buy no other.
Tin-: tin hat commission.
LESSON XII, SECOND QUARTER, IN-
1 ERNa | iONA»_ SERIES, JUNE 17.
Text of the Lesson, Matt, xxviii, 1030 .
(iuldoii Text, I’s. Ixviil, II — Mem¬
orize Verses IH-lSO—Commentary by
itev H. S. Ilofl’inan.
fOnnUens**n from l^esaon flelper Quarterly, Philadelphia, by
I •ermisKino of H S Hoffman.
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V lb I he eleven disciples appear as the
representatives of the entire band of Christ’s
followers There doubt others *
were no many
beside them who had traveled the long dis¬
tance from Jerusalem to attend this meeting
which (Jesus had appointed. He still ap¬
points places where He will meet His people.
Let us f>e sure to be there. The precise
mountain In Galilee is not known. Borne
think it Mount l abor, or the mountain on
wtneb He was transfigured. It seems to
have lieeri providentially arranged thatevery
important place where Jesus manifested His
glory should t** obliterated from the subse¬
quent knowledge of mankind. Enough re¬
mains of the plac&s to attest the truth of
Christian records, but no one spot connected
with His life can be certainly identified.
Bethelem still exists, but there is no trace of
the place where the manger .cradled the won¬
drous child. Nazareth is indicated, but the
carpenter shop and the home of Jesus cannot
be pointed out One can no more find the
house where the Last Bupper was instituted
than the drops of water that wet the dis
cipies feet Tourists are shown at least three
pla<ev m Gethsemane where Jesus agonized.
The hill of Calvary and the tomb of Joseph
cannot be surely identified. There was to be
no shrine to which idolatrous worshipers
might repair.
V 17 An immense assembly looked upon
Him. He appeared tiefore them. Wbat
strange emotions of curiosity and of love
filled their hearts as they looked upon their
Friend who was dead, but now alive before
them. “Home doubted” not doubted, of course but the !
eleven disciples who had now
were convinced, and yet though some doubt¬
ed. they worshiped Him. Their doubt was ;
honest, one that could be overcome by evi¬
dence. Tbeir doubt was not lasting, since
Paul speaks of them twenty years after as i
brethren, the most of whom were yet living
witnesses of the reality of His resurrection.
They were no rash, fanactical enthusiasts.
Their slowness to believe adds immensely to
that bold and unfaltering faith with which I
thenceforth they gave witness of His resur
recti on It is well to prove things and then
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^ Thongb . they .. may hn ha _. e doubted,
Jesus did not reject them He only came nearer
to them, giving them convincing proofs,
j When they got a closer view of Him. and
ween His familiar voice fell upon their ears,
bow every trace of doubt must have Bed!