Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-10-14
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RURAL AND CITY CEMETERIES.
In the last Millennial Harbinger ne find an
address of Rev. A. Campbell, at Wellsburg, on
the occasion of the formal opening Of a Gene
terry there We extract the following:
Such precisely are my conceptions and my
taste on the question of the preference of rural
cemeteries to those located in the centres or in
the immediate precincts of our towns and cities.
1t is true that in large cities and in the midst of
q dense population, it is almost, if not altogether
impossible to locate burial grounds just where
we would prefer to have them, and where they
would be equally accessible to all. As far as
practicable, however, tits, indeed a desideratum
that they should be mas, Immediate proximity
as possible to all those Immediately interested
in them: And there should be such attractions
in the shrubbery and flowers, within and around
them, as to allure the thoughtful, the tasteful
and the devout often to retire to them; and,
then and there, to ponder their past days and
hours, and to ask them. 'tcltdt report they haze
borne to heaueH, . and how they themselves will,
forever be pleasedtTith it
To plant synagogues, meeting. houses, or, as
frequently now called, churches, in the midst of
the tombs or vaults of the dead, is deserYedly
falling into desuetude, and beginning to be re-
garded as not in keeping with goodtaste. And
still less aPpropos to good sense is it to have
sectarian burying grounds, as if we had a sort
Vi SSClGStbSklS Tue SCaV6H OF uG>
sired to enter into rest in groups under the in,
sigma or armorial, of our ecclesastico- political,
dOctrinal didactic theories falsely called pety
or humanity.
In the resurrection, first or second, we shall
notriSe in national, family, or ecclesiastic groups
or circles, based on creeds or formulas Of thought
or classed in rank and file under any earthly or
temporal designation. We should, therefore,
have no sectarian burying- grounds, no elect oP
lreprObate, no orthodox or heterodoX cemeteries
or grave yards. Every 4sectarian cemetery or
grave yard is a vain attempt to carry into eter-
nifty and to immortalize our theories, faiths and
ecclesiastical controversies, and along with these
our ecclesiastic antipNthies, broils and battles.
As in the drama of life and on the stage of
time we all alike, naked and destitute, make
our debut, so must we make our exit. And
why, in reasons ear, do we seek to commemo-
rate or perpetuate our discords, our follies, and
our shame, by inStitnting and erecting elect and
reprobate hurying grouRds, or what Is virtually
and in effect the same, denying the rites of
sepulture in our grounds to any human being
because of his religious belief OF peculiar course
of. life!
Must we Judge theiworld, and institute elect
and reprobate grave yardsP Must we continue
or reinstate, an Aceldama, a Potter's field, to
bury strangers or heretics therein? We arc
pleased to know that the first burying ground
of this type on the records Of time was pur-s
chased by the High Priest and rulers, who con-
demned to the cross the Saviour of the world;
and it was paid for by q contribution on the
part of Judas, the traitor, amounting to fifteen
dollars, which bnrned hole in his pocket and
fell to the ground, so hot that the High Priest
and rulers of that day were glad to bury it in
the potters field, in order to bury aliens therein.
True it is, and we rejoice in it, that tthere is
not a dungeon slave that lies unburied by the
highway side, unshrouded and .uncofined, who
does not lie as soft and sleep as sound" as now
fEo No. ,e
who, having conquered the n hole world ofshis
day and gelteratl cried
tod lWof other ORD. TO conuIiei.
The wild, untutored Indian, some men; and
women, and little children, are so fond of trfnk-
cts that they will even carry them with them
to the mound or grave in which repoSe their
own ashes. Sorry prominence, indeed, it's"
as some poet has said, "above the baser born to
rot in state, and to mingle our dust with beads
and trinkets
Was it Benjamin Franklin, or some other
shrewd thinker, who on one occasion, prayed to
Father Abraham desiring to know something of
the tenantry of heaven? After enouiring with
great intensity, naming all the churches or de-
nominations of his day, Propounding them one
by one, aud uniformly asking was any oneof
them IN heaven, he was uniformly answered in
the negatiye-not one-no, not one of the Greek
or Roman or Protestant denominations He then
changed the question, and asked once more
saying: if not one Of these denominations,
whom, Father Abraham, have you got in hea-
ven? He then received this response: 'Men Of
every nation who on earth feared God and
wrought righteousness in their, day and genera
tion.p The moral is certainly good and salu-.
tary lesson.
In conclusion, then, and in full persuasion
that all who now live must die, and that all4that
die must rise again, never again to die, with the
concurrence of the citizens of Wellsbnrg, and
its vicinity, we formally set apart those grounds
to all the uses of Christian sepulturc, and may
this DO the scene of many a Christians rest and
Of his triumphant resurrection from the dead
when the Lord shall come in oil the august
glories of his Father, attended with his ten
thousand times ten thousand, aud thousands of
thousands of angelsI
A FEM4LE FoHerK-Tho most extensive for
gerry of moder times has lately been perpetrated
be awoman upon the Turkish Government.
The condensed statement gathered fromlpro-
ceedings instituted against Mr. Harrison, Job
printer in New York, as found in the 7Fi5uns
are these: A Mrs. Seyast, Moldayian, lately