The Decorations Of Graves
T.DeWitt Talmage
Solomon's Song, 4: 4: "The tower of David builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men."
(Preached on the Sunday before Decoration Day.)
The Church is here compared to an armory, the walls hung with trophies of dead heroes. Walk all about this tower of David and see the dented shields and the twisted swords and the rusted helmets of ter- rible battle. So we turn our Church to-day into an armory adorned with memories of our departed braves. Blossom and bloom, oh, walls, with stories of self-sacrifice; the shadows gathered into this drapery typical of our grief for the dead, and the light clustered into these constellations symbolical of our national deliverance. You see it is not the blackness of dark- ness, but night with stellar illumination.
By unanimous decree of the people of the United States of America, the graves of all the Northern and Southern dead are every year decorated. The nation comes forth with garlands for the graves of the de- parted and consolation for the bereft who are living. All acerbity and bitterness have gone out of the national solemnity, and as the men and women of the South one month ago floralized the cemeteries and graveyards, so to-morrow we the men and women of the North shall put upon the tombs of our dead the kiss of patriotic affection. Bravery always appreciates bravery, though it fight on the other side; and if a soldier of the Federal army had been a month ago at Savannah he would not have been ashamed to march in the floral processions to the cemetery. And if to- morrow there be a Confederate soldier walking in Greenwood, he will be glad to put a sprig of heart's- ease on the silent heart of our dead.
In a battle during our last war, the Confederates were driving back the Federals, who were in swift re- treat, when a Federal officer dropped wounded. One of his men stopped at the risk of his life, and put his arms around th ...
T.DeWitt Talmage
Solomon's Song, 4: 4: "The tower of David builded for an armory, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men."
(Preached on the Sunday before Decoration Day.)
The Church is here compared to an armory, the walls hung with trophies of dead heroes. Walk all about this tower of David and see the dented shields and the twisted swords and the rusted helmets of ter- rible battle. So we turn our Church to-day into an armory adorned with memories of our departed braves. Blossom and bloom, oh, walls, with stories of self-sacrifice; the shadows gathered into this drapery typical of our grief for the dead, and the light clustered into these constellations symbolical of our national deliverance. You see it is not the blackness of dark- ness, but night with stellar illumination.
By unanimous decree of the people of the United States of America, the graves of all the Northern and Southern dead are every year decorated. The nation comes forth with garlands for the graves of the de- parted and consolation for the bereft who are living. All acerbity and bitterness have gone out of the national solemnity, and as the men and women of the South one month ago floralized the cemeteries and graveyards, so to-morrow we the men and women of the North shall put upon the tombs of our dead the kiss of patriotic affection. Bravery always appreciates bravery, though it fight on the other side; and if a soldier of the Federal army had been a month ago at Savannah he would not have been ashamed to march in the floral processions to the cemetery. And if to- morrow there be a Confederate soldier walking in Greenwood, he will be glad to put a sprig of heart's- ease on the silent heart of our dead.
In a battle during our last war, the Confederates were driving back the Federals, who were in swift re- treat, when a Federal officer dropped wounded. One of his men stopped at the risk of his life, and put his arms around th ...
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