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THE CIIUIICH OF CHKIST.
Hev. Dr. Talmage Denies That It U
Losing' Power,
Ai1 rrndaces Fiearea to Demonstrate In
vr-Iucreiiig: Hold Upon the Peo
ple of the World " From
Conquest to CooqaevL"
The following Bermon on the subject:
"From Conquest to Conquest," was de
livered by Rev. T. DeWitt Talmajre in
the Brooklyn tabernacle, beiiifr based
on the text:
uenoiu the days come, saitfc the Lo:
. the
me piowman saau overtake the
Amos, lx., ia
reaper.
Picture of a tropical clime with a
season so prosperous that the harvest
reaches clear over to the planting time,
and the swarthy husbandman swing
ing' the sickle In the thick grain al
most feels the breath of the horses on
his shoulders, the horses hitched to the
plow preparing for a new crop. t,lie
hold the days come," saith the Lord,
"that the plowman shall overtake the
reaper!" When is that? That is now.
That is the day when hardly have you
done reaping one harvest before the
plowman is getting ready for another.
I known that many declare that
Christianity has collapsed, that the
Uible Ls an obsolete book, that the
Christian church is on the retreat. I
will here and now show that the oppo
site of that is true.
An Arab guide was leading a French
infidel across the desert, and ever and
anon the Arab guide would get dorm
in the sand and pray to the Lord. It
discussed the French infidel, and after
awhile as the Arab got up from one of
his prayers the infidel said: "Flow do
3'ou know there is any God?" and the
Arab guide said: "liow do I know
that a man and a camel passed along
our tent last night? I know it by the
footprints in the sand. And you want
to know how I know whether there is
any God? Look at the sunset. Is that
the footstep of of man?" And by the
same process you and I have come -to
understand that this book is the foot
step of a God.
Hut now let us see whether the Bible
is a last year's almanac Let us see
whether the Church of God is in a Bull
Run retreat, muskets, canteens and
haversacks strewing all the way. The
great English historian, Sharon Tur
ner, a man of vast learning and of
great accuracy, net a clergyman, but
an attorney, as well as a historian,
tjives this overwhelming statistic in
regard to Christianity and in regard to
the number of Christians in the differ
ent centuries. In the first century,
five hundred thousand Christians; in
the second century, two lui'lion Chris
tians; in the third century, live mil
lion Christians: in the fourth century,
ten million Christians; intl.oHflli cen
tury, fifteen million Christians; i:i the
sixth century, twenty million Chris
tians; in the seventh century, twenty
four million Christians; in the eighth
rentury, thirty million Christians; in
the ninth century, forty million Chris
tians; in the tenth century, fifty mil
lion Christians; in the eleventh cen
tury, seventy million Christians: in
the twelfth century, eighty million
Christians: in the thirteenth centurv,
seventy-five million Christians; in the
fourteenth century, eighty million
Christians; in the fifteenth centnrj', one
hundred million Christians; in the six
teenth century, one hundred and twenty-five
million Christians; in the sev
enteenth century, one hundred and fifty-five
million Christians; in the eight
centh century, two hundred million
Christians a decadence, as you ob
serve in only one century, and more
than made up in the following cen
turies, while it is the usual computa
tion that there will be, when the rec
ord of the nineteenth century is made
up, at least three hundred million
Christians. Poor Christianity! what a
pity it has no friends. How lonesome
It must be. Who will take it out of the
poor house? Poor Christianity! One
hundred millions In one century. In
a few weeks of the year 1SSI two
million five hundred thousand copies
of the New Testament distribut
ed. Why, the earth is like an
old castle with twenty gates
and a park of artillery ready to thun
der down every gate. Lay aside all
Christendom and see how heathendom
is being surrounded and honeycombed
and attacked by this all-conquering
Gospel. At the beginning of this cen
tury there were only one hundred and
lift3r missionaries; now there are twen-tv-five
thousand missionaries and na-
i tive helpers and evangelists. At the
beginning of this century there were
offly fifty thousand heathern converts;
now there are one million seven hun
dred and fifty thousand converts from
heathendom. There is not a sea coast
on the planet but the battery of the
Gospel is planted and ready to march
on, north, south, east, west. You all
know that the chief work of an army
is to plant the batteries. It may take
many days to plant the batteries, and
they may do all their work in ten min
utes. These batteries are being planter
all along the sea coasts and in ail na
tions. It may take a good while to
plant them, and the3r may do all their
work in one day. They will. Nations
are to be born in a day. But just come
back to Christendom and recognize the
fact that during the last ten years as
many people have connected them
selves with evangelical churches as
connected themselves with the churches
in the first fifty years of this century.
So Christianity is falling back, and
the Bible, they say, is becoming an ob
solete book. I go into a court, and
wherever I find a judge's bench or a
clerk's desk, I find a Bible. Upon
what book could there be uttered the
solemnity of an oath? What book is
apt to be put in the trunk of the young
man as he leaves for city life? The
Bible. What shall I find in nine out
of every ten hemes in Brooklyn? The
Bible. In nine out of every ten homes
in Christendom? The Bible. Voltaire
wrote the propheey that the Bible in
the nineteenth century would become
extinct. The century is nee rly gone,
and as there have leen more Bibles
published in the latter part of the cen
tury, do you think the Bible will be
come extinct in the next six 3-ears. I
have to tell you that ,the room In
which Voltaire wrote that prophecy
not long ago was crowded from floor
to ceiling with BifcTes from Switzer
land. Suppose the congress of the
United States should pass a law that
there should be no more Bibles printed
in America, and no more Bibles read.
If there are forty million grown people
in the United States, there would be
forty million people in an army to put
down such a law and defend their right
to read the Bible. But suppose the con
gress of the United States should make
a law against the reading of the pub
lication of any other book, how
many people would go out in such a
crusade? Could you get forty million
people to go out and risk their lives in
defense of Shakespeare's tragedies or
Gladstone's tracts of Macauley's His
tory of England? You know that there
are a thousand men who would die in
defense of thi book. You try to in
sult my common-sense by telling me
the Bible is fading out from the world.
It is the most popular book ot the
century. Uow do t know it? I know it
just as I know in regard to ether 1oo"s.
How many volumes of that book are
published? Well, you 'f-ay, live thou
sand. How many copies of that book
are published? A hundred thousand.
Which is the more popular? Why, of
course, the one that has one hundred
thousand circulation. And if this book
has more copies abroad in the world,
if there are five times as many Bibles
abroad as any other book, does not
that show 3-0U that the most popular
book on the planet to-day is the Word
of God?
"Oh," 6a3' people, "the church, is a
collection of hypocrites, and it is los
ing its power, and it is fading out
from the world." Is it? A bishop of
the Methodist church told me that
that denomination averages two new
churches every day of tho3rear. There
are at least one thousand five hundred
new churches built in America every
year. Does that look as though the
church was fading out, as though it
were a defunct institution? Which
institution stands nearest the
hearts of. the people of America
to-day? I do not care in what
village or in what city, or what neigh
borhood 3'ou go. Which institution is
it? Is it the post office? It it the hotel?
Is it the lecture hall? Ah,, you know
it is not. You know that the institu
tion which stands nearest to the hearts
of the Am"vie;n people is the Christian
church. If 3'on have overseen a church
burn down 3-011 have seen thousands of
people standing aud looking at it peo
ple who never go into a church the
tears raining down their cheeus. The,
whole story is told.
You nary talk sl-out the church be
ing a collection of l-pocrites, but
when the diphtheria sweeps your chil-;
drcn ff whom do you send for? The
postmaster? the attorney general? the
hotel-keeper? alderman? No, you
send fpr a minister of this Bible re
ligion. And if 3-ou have net a room in
your house for the obsequies, what
building do you solicit? Do you &.13-:
"Give me the finest room ia the hotel?"'
Do you say: "Give mo that theater?''
Do you saT: "Give me a place in that
public building, where I can lay my
dead for a little wliile until we saj- a
prayer over it?" No; you say:
"Give us the house of God." And if there
is a song to be sung at the obsequies
what do j-ou want? What does any
bod3' want? The "Marseillaise" hymn?
"God Save the Queen?' Our own grand
national air? No. They want the
hymn with which they sang their old
Christian mother into her last sleep,
or they want sung the Sabbath-school
h3rmn which their little girl sang the
last Sabbath afternoon she was out be
fore she got that awful sickness, which
broke your heart. I appeal to 3rour
common sense. You know the most
endearing institution on earth, the
most popular inititutioa on earth to
day is the Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ.
The infidels say: "Infidelity shows
:ts successes from the fact that it is
everywhere accepted, and it can say
what it will." Why, my friends, infi
delity is not half so blatant in our day
as it was in the days of our fathers.
Do 3'ou know that in the days of our
fnthers there were pronounced infidels
ia public authority j:ri.l ihvy eould get
any political position? Let a man to
day declare himself antagonistic to the
Christian religion, and whuteity wants
him for mayor, what state wants him
him for governor, what uation wants
him for president or for king? Let a
man openl3 proclaim himself the enemy
of our glorious Christianity, and he can
not get a majority of our votes in any
state, in any cit.y, in an3' county, in any
ward of America.
Do you think that such a scene
could be enacted now as was enacted
in the days of Robespierre, when a
shameless woman was elevated as a
goddess, and was carried in a golden
chair to a cathedral, where incense
was burned to her, and people bowed
down before her as to a divine being, she
taking the place of the Bible and God
Almighty, while in the corridor of that
cathedral were enacted such scenes of
drunkenness, and debauchery, and ob-:
6cenitv as has never been wit
nessed. Do you believe such a
thing could possibly occur in Chris
tendom to-day? No, sir. The po
lice, whether of Paris or New
York, would swoop on it. I know in
fidelity makes a good of talk in our
day. It is on the principle that if a
man jump overboard from a Cunard
steamer he makes
more excitement
than all of the five hundred people
that stay on the decks. But the fact
that he jumps overboard does that
stop the ship? Does that wreck the
five hundred' oassengers? It makes
great excitement when a man jumps
from the lecturing platform or from
the pulpit into infidelity; but does
that keep the Bible and the church
from Carrying their millions of passen- '
gers into the skies? ' j
They say, these men, that science is
overcoming religion in our day. They ;
look through the spectacles of the in- ;
fidtl scientists, and tlie3" sa': "It ishn- !
possible that this took can be true i
people are fending it out-; tlu lUbl hrt.
got to go overboard; science is going
to throw it overboard." Do you be
lieve that the Bible- account of
the origin of life will be over
thrown by infidel scientists who
have fifty different theories about
the origiu of life? If they should
com up in solid phalanx, iVil agreeing
on enc sentiment .nd one theory, per
haps Christianity might be damaged;
but there are not so many differences
of opinion insirfe-thc church as outside
the church. People used to say,
"there are souiany different denomina
tions of Christians that shows there
is nothing in religion." I have to tell
you that all denominations agree on
the two or three or four radical doc
trines of the Christian religion. They
are unanimous in regard to Jesus
Christ, and they are unanimous
in regard to tho divinity of the Scrip
tures. How is it on the other side? All
split up you can not find two of them
alike. Oh, it makes me ick td see
these literary fops going along with a
copy of Darwin under one arm aud a
case of transGxed grasshoppers and
butterflies under the other arm, telling
about the "survival of the fittest," and
Huxley's protoplasm, and the nebular
hypothesis. The fact is that seme nat
uralists, just as soon as they find out
the difference between the feelers of a
wasp and the horns of a bootle, begin
to patronize the Almighty; while
Agassiz, glorious Agastdz, who never
made any pretention to being a Chris
tian, puts both his feet an the doctrine
of evolution, and sfs: "I see that
many of the naturalists of our day are
adopting facts which do not bear ob
servation." These men warring with
each other; Darwin warring against
Lamarche, Wallace warring against
Cope, even Ilerschel denouncing Fer
guson. They do not agree about any
thing. They do not ajrree on embry
olog;, do notagreeeon the de gradation
of the species. What do they gree
on? Ilerschel writes a whole chapter
on the errors of astronomy. La Place
declares that the moon was not put in
the right place. He says that if it had
been put four times further from the
earth th-sn it is now there would be
more harmony in the universe; but
Lionville comes up just in time to prove
that the moon was put in the right
place. How many colors woven into
the light? Seven, sa3'.s Is:vac Newton.
Three, says David Brewster. How
high is the Aurora Boreaiis? Two
and a half miles, says . Lias.
One hundred and sixty-eight miles,
sa3rs Twining. How far is the sun
from the earth? Seventy-six million
miles, says Humboldt. Ninety million
miles, sa-s Henderson. One hundred
vnd four million miles, says Mayer.
Only a little diu'ereix-e of twenty-eight
nillion miles! All Folit umoug them
selves not agreeing on anything.
'Lhey con?e and f?.y thnt the churches
f .?e:-ns Christ are deviued 011 the
reat doctrines. All united they are,
:n Jusu-h . Christ, in the divinity of
the Scriptures; wldle they come up
and propose to reinler their verdict,
no two of them agree ou that ver
lict. "Gentlemen of tha jury, li .ve
yoti agreed ou a verdict?" asks the
court or the clerk of the jry as the3
came in after having spent the whole
night in deliberating. If the jur3' say:
"Yes. we have agreed;' the verdict is
recorded; but suppose one of the jury
men says: "I think the man was utultj
of murder," and another says! "I think
he was guilty of manslaughter in the
second degree," and another man says:
"I think he was guilty of assault and'
battery with intent to kill." the judge
would sa3r: "Go back to your room and
bring in a verdict; agree on something:
that is no verdict."
Yonder is an aged Christian after
fifty years' experience of the power
of Godliness in his soul. Ask this man
whether, when he buried his dead, the
religion of Jesus Christ was not a con
solation. Ask him if through the
long years of his pilgrimage the
Lord ever forsook him. Ask him
when he looks forward to the
future, if he has not a peace and a joy
and a consolation the world can not
take away. Put his testimony of what
he has seen and what he has felt oppo
site to the testimony of a man who
says he has not seen au3Tthing on the
subject or felt anything on the sub
ject. Will 3'ou take the testimony of
people who have not cr people who
have seen?
You say morphia puts one to sleep.
You sa3' in time of sickness it is very
useful. I deny it. Morphia never put
anj-body to sleep, it never alleviates
pain. You ask me why I say that. I
have never tried it, I never took it- I
deny that morphia is any soothing to
the nerves, or an37 quiet in thncs of
sickness. I deny that morphia ever
put anybod3' to sleep; but here are
twentv persons who say they have ail
felt the soothing effects of a phy
sician's prescribing morphine. Whose
testimony will 3'ou take? Those
who took the medicine, or
m3T testimony, I never having
taken the medicine? Here is the "Gos
pel of Jesus Christ, an anodyne for all
trouble, the mightiest medicine that
ever came down to earth. Here 5s a
man who sa3"s: "I don't believe in it.
there is no power in it." Here are
other people who say: "We have found
j out its power and know its soothing
i influence; it has cured us." Whose
testimony will you tako in regard to
j this healing medicine?
j Col. Ethan ..Allen was a famous in
j fidel in his day. His wife was" a very
I consecrated woman. The mother in
j structed the daughter in the truths of
' Christianity. The daughter sickened
and was about to di?, and sue said
to her father: "Father, shall I
take 3Tour instruction? or . shall
I take mother's instruction? I
am going to die now; I must
have this matter decided." That man,
who had been loud in his infidelity,
said to his dj ing daughter: "My dear,
you had better take your mother's re
ligion." My advice is the same to yon,
O 3"oung nan, 3'ou had letter take
your mother's, veUfcion. . You know
hw it comforted her. You know what
she said to you w lien she was dying.
You had better take 3'our motiier'b re
ligion. .
w& , ;,-4 i$mm
wt Wm-'C ? warn
Mr--K- "mmm
neither read this aloud nor his an
sw?r to it- He wrote back that tho
captain was not known to discuss his
heart's affairs, but there was a story to
the effect that he had loved and was
on the point of declaring it when the
war came on. The lady went off to
Europo and he to the front, and he pre
sumed that sho had long ago forgotten
him.
There was an unusually long delay
between that letter
which went from the
and the next
army. Berrien
had received a slight wound which dis
abled his right arm for a time. Tho
fact of the wound was mentioned quito
Incidental', of cpr.rse.
Not long- after this Berrien's regi
ment was transferred to his own state.
The men did not know jiist where they
were going or what service was in
store for them. When they found that
they were approaching the coast they
guessed that an attack was expected
from the enemy by sea in concert with
Sherman's advance from the moun
tains. Sherman was still a long way
off, but ho seemed to bo heading for
the coast.
The commissary department failed
to provide for some of the troops "which
were sent awa3' down the coast. They
had to forage. They eould give orders
for what they took and tho orders
were honored by, the commissary de
partment. One day Berrien had ' to
take a detachment of men and go out
for supplies. A negro catching shrimp
along a stream said that his master
had great quantities of meat stored
away "enough to feed two hundred
niggers two years, three times a day."
That was more cheerful news to the
half-starved soldiers than the discov
ery of a bonanza mine would be in a
broken mining camp.
The negro was taken as a guide, and
he showed the way to the house. As it
was approached, he discreetly slipped
away.
As the men rasrehed up to the man
sion there was a great commotion
about the quarters. Negroes were)
everywhere. A little imp cam run
ning down toward them. He stopped
suddenl3', looked at them fort a mo
ment, and then sped back to the house.
"A black Mercury," the . captain re
marked; An elderly gentleman came out on
the veranda as Cajt. Berrien walked
up in advance of his men. Berrien j have been pleased to hear of your gal
was confused when he recognized in lantry on the field and of "your kind-
the owner of the plantation Col. Le j
Bey. The colonel recognized him at j
once, although he had hoped that tha j
uniform and the bronzed complexion ;
would prove a disguise. !
Capt. Berrien explained tho object of
his visit, and stated that the orders
which he was authorized to give would
be honored by the confederate govern- j
ment. The old plant ?; retorted sharp-
iy that, taken at its actual worth, the
government at Richmond - had not
money enough in its treasury to buy a
dozen razor-bacic snotes.
declared that he had no
The colonel
provisions to
spare: tnat 11 ne Jia-.i 11c wouia cneer-full3-
give them to the army, lie want
ed no pay for anything that he could
spare.
A sharp parley entmed. The pyo
prietor fiat'y refused t sell an ything.
IJerrien really wanted to get away, for
he felt that the old gentleman credited
him with the intention of making a
malicious raid. He explained that he ;
had no idea whose plantation he was i
on until the owner appeared.
An unexpected end was put to the
colloquy.
"Father, we have enough to sharo
with the soldiers. Follow me, I will
show 3ou the way." .
Berrien had not seen the young lady
come out upon the veranda, and was
not aware of her presence until she
spoke. It is very true that he had
been thinking of her and of the last
time he saw her, but he had no idea
she was here.
She had overheard a part of the con
versation, but she ha 1 not seen the .'sol
dier's iiice until shi .'.tepped Uglify to
her father s side. t'S:ie carried a banch.
of Ice3s in one hand.
The recognition was a shock to her.
She trembled for a moment. . ...
"Capt. Berrien, 1 was not expect
ing to see you." She spoke in a
low tone, much lower than her natural
tone as Berrien remembered it.
He raised his cap, and began the
same apologetic explanation which he
had made to her father.
"I did "not know it was you, but I
would do this for any of our men," she
hastened to say. "Come with me."
Four years had ripened her beauty.
Berrien found himself studying her.
iMiVtS A Tit;-"!
CAPT. BERRIEN, I WAS SOT EXPECTING
TO SEE YOU "
Recovering, he was about -to 6peak
when she sweetly bade her father to
wait on the veranda for her return. She
then led the way to the quarters. CaptT
Berrien brought up his detail of men.
The young lady inserted a key in the
lock of a strong door on a large store
house and beforo Berrien could assist
she had opened the door.
"Now, captain, 3-our men may divide
equally whatever you find here that
you need." She fcpoke standing in the
doorwaj'.
The soldiers went quickly to work.
While they were busily engaged, Ber
rien stood beside his former friend.
"I thought that you were in Europe,"
he said.
"No. I would not go." she answered.
"I to!d father that if our country was
to suHer it waa not right for me, a
southern woman, to go away from it.
I might do some good at home. I was
sure that I eould do nothing abroad."
After a pause she added: "I want to
congratulate you on the speech you
inane tir.it tlay and to tell 3'cu that I
ness, especially to the humtlte soldiers
of the army, Capt. Berrien."
"I was afraid that you did not quite
forgive me for that speech.-
"Ve will speak of that another day.
By the way, how is your wounded arm,
captain?"
"How did you know that I had a
WOunded arm?" he asked, quickly,
Miss Le Bey started to make an
v started to make an eva
sive, stammering reply while the color
shot into her face.
He interrupted her, and with a mis
chievous sparkle in his fine eyes said:
"Coniess that you are the amanuen
sis." "I knew that 3-on were all the time,
she said. "I'had received some notes
from you, don't you remember? How
is it that I have written Mrs. Jew-
ett's letters? There is a great deal of
aid to be given to the wives and
families of cur brave ( soldiers. In
irymg w uo my buure 1 visit families
miles anti miles away from here. It
would be on these drives that I would
stop at the poor woman's house, read
her letter and write the reply,
When the men completed their work
In the stcrehourc, tho captain tendered
an order to Col. Le Bey. He declined
it, declaring that he had no room in
which to store the quantity of notes
which he would receive in payment.
The colonel was quite gracious now,
and invited Berrien to visit the plan
tation during the s,tay of the troops in
that section. Berrien was a frequent
and welcome visitor to the plantation
thereafter, and before the order for re
moval came he had won a coveted
promise from th"daughter and the
content of the Lithei
Fbaxk Weldos.
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I I 1 : 1 I t r r J . "I
, : -x i- v7Tri tb Atari
O MORE tb storm of
battle (looms
Abort tfce wTtnf
fields; '
No more tbe csaooa'
thunder booma:
Dal earth wlta blos
B&ms shields
Tbe soldier breasts thai braved the fifhtt
Bcnoath tho laureled sod
They slumber ta the living light
Of glory aud of God.
Tbe faded flasrs no looker stream
Atxrve those broasts so stilli
The red swords of the lightning gleam
Are sheathed by vale aad bill,
And Peiaoo onf urls her banners white.
In tranquil winds to wave; "
W fcilo Memory's tears in drops ot light
. Are rained above the brave.
After the fight tho hero sleeps
In God's unlsrolton rest.
And still tbe tout'a in honor keeps
llcr lovod ones on her breast.
For, sacred is the blood they shed, '
And through tho 0!ght ot years
The South stall btcss her glorious dead
With her memorial tears.
Frank L. Stastoji
NEW LIFE OF LEE.
It T111 Be the Vett History of the
Qrtat
General.
Gen. FitzhnghLee, recently governor
of Virginia, ls preparing a blograplt3' of
his uncle, Gen. Robert E. L-e. Tho
manuscript, says the Springfield Re
publican, la nearly completed, and the
book will be published by a New .York
firm in May. It will be tho first au
thentic story of Gen. Lee's life which
has appeared. It will throw numer
ous side lights upon Lee's character,
which will be a revelation to tho3e
who know him only as the great leader
of the confederate forces. The biog
raphy will contain many unwritten in
cidents of the late war which were
known only to the little coterie of men
who held tho fortunes of the confed
eracy within their grasp. Gen. Lee .
was alwa3s a careful and palnstakin
man, and his private letters re
flect those qualities to a wide degree.
Nearly two hundred iettcre written by
him during his four years from home,
and while in the field, will bo incorpo
rated in the book.
The work of editing these letters was
delegated to Fitzhugh Lpe, because tt
bis intimate association with lii3 uncle
during the war and for many year
succeeding. Fitzhugh Lee is a grace
ful and accomplished writer, although
not in any sense a litterateur. He is
amply fitted for the work, and its ap
pearanee is awaited with great inter
est in the south, where it ia expected
t have a large Bala.
Tho Two "Lees rather and Bon.
Robert E. Loe, Jr., boars a striking
resemblance to his father, Gen. Robert
E. Leo. ' Ho rose to the rank of captain
in the confederate army, entering as a
private in the famous Rockbridge ar
tillery when ho was but eighteen years
old. lie waa counted one of the bravest
and most tireless lighters in the ranks.
An interesting incident is related of
how he met his father after a hot bat
tie in which young Lee had taken an
active part. The artillery was parked
in an open field the day after tbe first
fight at Cold Harbor. With the other
members of his company Private Lee
had sought rest beneath the cannon.
Ono of his comrades called out: "Bob,
here comes your father." A figure be
grimed with the dirt and smoke of
battle crawled from beneath a cannon
and stood up to salute and greet Gen.
Lee, who was rfcl ing on e tour of inspec
tion. Tho meeting botweon the father
and son was aiTectlouate, although the
general had to look closely to recognize
his otfspring. St. Louis Globo-Democrat.
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SW E ET H A R TjF O r G CT WE NOT.
Uli LOVE 1 fiith walked
through sucny wayst
We Lave not one re
t I gu
:J A T&& ten cur d
W'&fS If we hud never c
gret.
dar!chad
gar
it? - fit
den plvt!
Because of all tha dear
dead hours, .
Sweetheart, forgot me.
nek
When from your side I stray afar
Fond coexnery still shall limn
For cic your face, a peerless star
No gloom can ever dim.
My heart will keep awake cr sleep
One bright and tender spot:
So It you stnile, or if you ween,
Sweetheart, forget me not.
The glory fades a-down the west
And dsrknes rotej the sky;
A drearfnl parting comes to test
Our 8 weet betrothal tie.
Bat perfect love can never wane.
Though tears its book may tiot
Love's ttronsest llnlis are forged by patni
Sweetheart, forget me not.
. SAMCfcO MIXTCBJI PXOX.
THE CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.-
XIls Return flome Eloquently Plciur4
by the Late Henry W. Grady.
Tho following extract from the fa
mous address delivered by the late
Henry W. Grady before tha New" Eng
land society of New York, on the occa
sion of its annual dinner in 1SS0, derives
special interest and appropriateness
from the associations of Memorial da-:
"Dr. Talmage has drawn for you,
with a master hand, the pi it -.ire of
your returning armies. He has fold
you how, in pomp and circumstf.nce of
war, they came back to you, marching
with proud and victorious tread, read
ing their glory in a nation's eys. Will
you- bear with mo whiie I tell j'ou of
another army that sought its home at
(Concluded Next Week.)
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