Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1854-08-02
DAILY EVENING STAR.
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DEDICATION OF 0LIEwooD ClHrrRpY.-
terdsy, this interesting ceremony was perform
Cd on the ground Of the cemetery. Two wears
ago, through the enterprise of VIM. S. Hum
Pnreys' the property, formerly belonging to
Junius - Boyle, mile and half north of the
Capitol, Was secured and laid out for burial
purposes. A handsome frame lodge, or gate
house, OF the Grecian order, has been built BY
George Clendenin, the present superiutepdent
OF the place. II has q beautiful front, with
figures Of Time, Penitsnce, and Love. A
mosaic mausoleum has been erected by Mr..
MAXWELL, of New York said to be similar to
that In the celebrated Greenwood Cemetery of
New York. There are about four miles Of
grayslled serpentine walks, running in circles,
angles, TO-, throughout the immense premises,
the whole of which 10 ninety acres, thirty of
which are now fully prepared for intermepts
The whole is in fine order, and surrounded BY
. deep wood, giving it q rural, quiet. and Sc
cluded character. This, then, was the beau
tiful place given yesterday afternoon for the
sacred purposes intended-the reposs of tho
immortal dead. Some three hundred persons
were in attendance, including q number of
ladies, one OF whom was born on the spot. A
stand was prepared for the ceremonies in a
shady and pleasant portion of tho grounds,
which was occupied by large number of the
fair women of our city, and those engaged in
the dedication. About 5 o'clock the Rev DR..
Butler, Of the Protestant Episcopal Church,
appeared, and commenced the ceremonies by
introducing the Rev. Mr.. Haskell, who read
the FIRST two, and from the 18th to the 33d
verses OF the 4sth chapter of Genesis which
will be seen to be quite appropriate to the oc
casion. The Rev. Mr. Dasniel. of the NJ. E.
Church, then delivered The following impress
sive prayer:
80 Lord God, King Of Kings. and Lord of
Lords. eternity ia thy dwelling place, the uni
verse il thy possession! Befo o thy glorious
presence We present ourselves and worship
thee; "For thou q. Wuriby, y lord, to receive
glory, and honor, and power :or thou has.
created all things, AMI f,r thy pleasure they
are and were created " We are awed by the
solemnity and glory of thy presence and we
dare not approach thee save in the name of
Jesus Christ. our mediator, by whose unfail-
ing intercessions and merits We are sustained
here, and hope to be accepted hereafter Have
mercy upon US, merciful God, and forgive
Us all our sins
y" By the occasion which has assembled US
together, and by the place from y hich our de-
OF that unchanged and Interchangeable decree
1t d appointed unto man once 70 die Ma
ture around rs, passing regularly and solemn
ly from the new and freshened life of spring,
into the blush and maturity of summer and
autumn, and thence to the cold and cherries
Aumber of winter, proclaims, in her faded
esxniture and sluggish, frozen streams, the
type of that earnest truth-we must die. And
If We pass from the symbolism Of the outward
world to our own homes and hearts, expert
snce 50 sadly repeats to US the mournful les
sen. And though from thy exhaustless love
and divine muniGcence thou hast made ample
provision to relieye US from the disastrous con-
sciences Of the fall, yet this terrible effect of
sin-temporal death-still hangs over our
heads and must still remain to remind us of
eur pAst injquities, until the triumph of thy
great scp, our Redeemsr, shall be completed
IN the destruction of the last enemy-Death.
"This day, o God, our Father az did thy
servant, the Patriarch Abraham, We set apart
and eonsecrate resting place for these fral
bodies, when the toll and trials of life are
done Assured that the sleep of the tomb 10
not An eterRal slumber; and yielding to that
earnest and universal instinct Of the heart,
that after death our bodies shall sleep well,
and be undisturbed By the march of improve
ment or the vandsl spirit of change,-in thy
name and in thy fear, o Lord ve consecrate
these beautiful grounds for the repose of our
dead. And a. here age, decrepid and pressed
meath the burden of years, shall halt feebly
to the tomb as here manhood, arrested in
the pride of its strength and vigor, and in the
midst of its splendid schemes, shall let 90 its
bold on power and place, and sink to the quiet
and inaetion Of the grave; and here youth, in
all the freshness snd sparkle of fife's morn
iny journey, shall soon-ard oh too soon
come with the bloom faded from its cheeks,
and the music of its heart hushed In the chill
silent grave. And here, the infant ''tarFying
but light" yet long enough to stir the depths
of maternal love, shall scspe from life cares
20 it's little ilowery bed. Since this is our in.
exorable destiny, oh, God, grant, We beseech
thee, that all who shall find friendly resting
place beneath this green sHard and these beau
tfful trees, may sleep in Jesus, and have part
In the FIRST resurrection. And grantthatfroH
these sacred and solemn associations, We may
each return to our homes 10 meet lifes earnest
work and do it we'll, that dying, We may find
for our souls far more beautiful rest than
this, and leave, in the hearts and memories Of
our friends and countrymen, a more enduring
monument than the skill of the sculptor or the
affection of loved ones, shall place over our
bodies here.
Waiting in faith till each of as shall enter
TIE gates Of this city Of the dead, to return no
more to the cares and griefs of life, We com.
zsend Us, soul and body, to Thy mercy and
grace, through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Amen"
Then followed the eloquent and beautiful
discourse of the Rev. Dr. Butler. After allu-
ding to the beauty of the grounds selected for
the cemetery, the reverend speaker proceeded
20 notice the natural reverence Of all nations
N Ill ages for the bodies Of the dead, and to
dwell upon the greatly added reverence and
solemnity with which christianity % invested
the bodies, which sown in corruption are raised
N interruption. He showed that the great
truth OF the resurrection accounted for and vim
6icssed tbs care and honor with which the re-
hsins Of the departed are guarded and brs-
served in christian Iepds. He dWeit also At
length upon the mJ-al and religious infuen-
ces Of cemeteries, when nd ,rped with ell the
beauties Of cultivated nature and OF christian
art, 10 sttuniDg the mind 10 solemn medits-
ZION, and in embodyihg in its epitaphs and
syubols the great truth, uf christianity and
concluded with the expi sasioh VI The hope th at
tho successive gener ,tIOns who shall visi. this
place of grace n y 6Ld it in those salu,ary
truths. and derive rTulu il rho>e nmfortins aud
eievating impressions ~hieh shs u prey are mem
% ne down in their graves lie peace Ibeir
successors will here Ind sermons Ia stoned
tongues IN the living trees Lesson 20 them
Aas they too shall meet be fate of mortality
a. their fathers did. But 10, the chr; s,i.n
there Is . certainty Of resurtectiou from This
beautiful city of the dead t. that more beau,i. |
fai one not made with hands in The Heavens |
The ReV. Byron Sunderland then resd we'll |
written poem full Of bright thoughts, 6ns i'm.
agery. and sacred characteristic suitable 70 !
the ceremonies. Ii reminded the nearer of |
Greys Elegy, AMI much resembles it in els |
gsnce and truthfalness A beautiful hymn, |
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