The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-09-28


In tho storm aud the strife,
jehovah hath spoken;
"Tri Tor thy light 70 me,
thy defence wiil be ~ 81"
HIS word Il uabroken.
Widows will weep at tho graves of their husbands de-
spairing in the bitterness of their grief of God and man.
until in this cosecrated place the servant of God shall
have spoken to them the words of consolation, Your
husband Is living there is another life TO come, where
YOU will meet again the holy bond Of love uniting the
spirits cannot be broken by death" Reason will resume
liz power and announce them that the image of God
the spirit of man. SO intimately related to his Maker
that Spirit who the and the structure of
the stars who reduces worlds into systems who puts the
clements into chains, who sends the eloquent lightning
through the depths of the ocean, and brings minds into
closer connexon-could not have been made for short
duration on this GARTH and that there must be another
world. s. g.
Religion too will assert its rights the symbols of
faith, love, and hope.
Faih calmly points the glorious promised land,
Where sympathetic souls hand in hand;
Lns tells the story that in yondcr kies,
Fate will discover gentle ties;
And that the holy beams Of hope shall pour
For, past the desonte boundary the tomb,
Nature joyous in eternal bloom.
collection then taken up to aid in paying for
the land and other necessary expenses and whilst the
stewards were making their rounds, hymn sung
by the children in German The performance highly
credabe to the children and the proficiency which they
evinced elected considerable surprise from the audience
AT the conclusion Of this exercise the Rev Mr. Fnckey
delivered the following address in English
We are assembled here dear friends according to an
nouncenent to dedicate with appropriate religious SER
vices this field and grove Prospect Hill Cemetery,
the property of the Union Benevolent Society of the
German Evangelical church, of Washington cy-to
secrate set apart these grounds the place to which
we design to transfer the remains Of departed friends
from the old grave yard, and to which to bring
those who shall yet fall asleep in Jesus yea perhaps to
1.l,o
the Achangel shall sound the trumpet of the Resurrec
ton and the Judge of all shall welcome eter
nal home, where the wicked from troubling and
the weary are at rest. /"
The deem appropriate, there opens to us
wide and beautiful prospect from the stand point which
occupy stretching away in the distance to the grave
of the ater Patre at Mount Vernon the resting place
of the hero the patriot and statesman dear to ALL and
consider people fortunate in securing this place
Goods acre. for themselves, their friends and neghbors
where the who go about the streets of the
city, may with the patriarch, bury their dead out Of
their sight, without reference to the they bear
the denomination to which they belong YEA we deem
them wise in making this selection, and engaging in
enterprise which supplies vacuum hitherto not filed
but soon to be completed here. Here may the weary
from the Fatherland repose in peace and in the bosom
of our common mother, Earth, may the home born or
elsewhere born rest the mortal till they shall put ON i'm
mortality, while the survivors reminded to
.sThink as those who fonlly anguish
Ger the graves Of fiends they love;
While their bosoms throb With anguish
They are warbing hymns above .... .....
While their silent steps straying
Lonely through nights deep'ning shade,
Gory's brightest beams playing
Round tho happy Christians head
The nations Of the earth have various modes in which
they pay respectful tribute TO the departed. The an
Gent Egyptians emban their dead the Hindoos burn
them the Jews entombed them the Greeks and Ro-
gave them sepulture, burned them as they
thought best the Mohammedans bury them but since
'e and immortality have been brought to light by the
Gospel Christians of all denominations bury their dead
with suitable religious ceremonies This conceive to
be the most becoming mode and well calculated to make
saluty impressions upon the hearts and minds of those
who remain ''when the body returns to the earth it
was and the spirit to God who gave it Z; and for this
the burial place which this day consccrato Pros-
pect Hill Cemetery is designed.
The society which have the honor to represent in
tends to Offer on the most reasonable and liberal cond
lions possible, single grave and family lots Of ground to
all who may desire them,
In this city of the dead he rich and the poor meet
together, the Lord being the God and Father of ALL
The iowly and the exalted equal hero. No conten-
ton and no dscord shall disturb them in this quiet rest
1ng place. And we most devouty pray that unhal-
lowed foot or word or act may desece the sacred
spot whereon we stand, "for this is holy ground. "
At the conclusion of the Rev. Mr. Fnckleys address,
the solemn service Of conservation read in German
and the assemblage dismissed with the benedicton
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