Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-04-18
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: Easter Thoughts"

TEXT: And the heEd Of Ephron, ,ohieh
trds IN HdchpeLoh Uhich tCds before Manure,
the fcLd and the care Uhfch tCds therein.
and oil the trees that tcere in the field, that
pCere m all the borders round about, tCere
made sure unto Abraham. Gen. xiii,
II, 1e.
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out.
MachDelah was its name 1t was an arbores-
cent beauty, where the wound Of death was
bandaged with foliage. Abraham, rich man,
not being able to bride the King of Terrors,
PROPOSES here, as far possible. 10 cover up
up his ravages He had no doubt previously
noticed this region, and now that Sarah his
wife had died-that remarkable person VINO
at ninety years of age had born to her the
son Isaac, and who now, after she had
reached one hundred and twenty-seven
years had expired-Abraham is negotiating
for family plot for her last slumber.
Ephron owned this real estate, and
after in mock sympathy for Abra-
ham refusing to take anything
for it. now sticks on big price-four hun
paid for and the transfer made, III the pres
ence of witnesses in public place, for there
were no deeds and no halls of record In those
early times. Then in cavern of limestone
rock Abraham put Sarah, and, few years
after himself followed, and then Isaac and
Rebckah and then Jacob and Leah. En-
powered, picturesque and memorable Mach
palah That Goods acre. Dedicated by
Abraham has been the mother of lnnumera-
BILE mOrtuary Observances. The metropolis
Of every civilized land has We'd with its me-
tropOLs
The most beautiful hills of Europe outside
the great cities are covered with Obelisk and
funeral vase and arched gateways and col
umns and parterres in honor OF the lnhu-
mated The Appian Way Of Rome was
bordered by sepulchral commemorations.
For this purpose Pisa has its arcades of mar
BILE sculptured into exquisite has rellefs and
the features Of dear faces that have van
ished. Genoa has its terraces cat into
tOmbs. and COnstantinOple covers with cy-
press the silent habitatiOns: and Paris has1ts
Pere- Lachaise, On whose height rests BalZaC
and David and Marshal Ney and Culver and
La Place and MOliere, and a mighty group
of warriors and poets and painters and mu-
scans In all foreign nations utmost genius
on all sides is expended i'll the work of in
terment, mummification and incarceration
Our own country consents to be second to
none in respect to the lifeless body. Every
city and town and neighborhood Of any in
tellgence or virtue has, not many miles
away, its sacred Enclosure, where affection
has engaged sculptor's chisel and florists
spade and artificer in metals. Our own city
has shown its religion as we'll as its art, in
the manner in which it holds the memory OF
those who have passed forever away, by its
Cypress Hills and its Evergreens and its Cal
vary and Holy Cross and Friends cemeteries.
All the world knows of our Greenwood, with
now bout two hundred and fifty thousand
inhabitants sleeping among hills that over
look the sea, and by lakes embosomed in an
Eden of flowers, our American Westminster
Abbey, an Acropohs of mOrtuary architec-
ture, Pantheon of mighty ones assembled,
elegies in stone, Iiiads in marble, whole gen.
eratiOns in peace waiting for other genera
tions to join them. No dormitOry of breath
less sleepers in all the world has 50 many
mighty dead.
Among preachers of the gospel, Bethune
and Thomas De Witt, and Bishop James and
Tying, and Abeel the missionary, and
Beecher and Buddington and McClintock
and lnskip and Bangs and Chaplin and Noah
Schenck and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among
musicians, the renowned Gottschalk and the
holy Thomas Hastings. Among the philau
thrOpistS, Peter Cooper and Isaac I. Hopper
and Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graham,
and Henry Bergh, the apostle of mercy to
the brute creation. Among the literati, the
Carys, Alice and Phoebe, James K. Paulding
and John @. Sake. Among the journalists
Bennett and Raymond and Greeley. Among
scientists Ormsby Mitchell, warrior as we'll
as astronomer, and lovingly called by his
soldiers odd Stars" the Diapers, splendid
men, l well know, one of them my
teacher, the other my classmate.
Among inventors, Elias Howe, who,
through the sewing machine, did more to
alleviate the tolls of wOmanhOOd than am
man that ever lived. and Professor Morse,
who gave us magnetic biography; the
former doing his work with the needle, the
latter with the thunderbolt. Among phvsi-
clans and surgeons Joseph C. Hutchinson,
and Marion Sims, and DR.. Valentine Mott,
with the following epitaph VIII CHI he ordered
cut in honor of the Christian religion: My
implicit faith and hope is in a mercifnl Re
deelner, who is the resurrection and the life.
"len and Amen" This is our American
0elah, as sacred to us as the Mach
"anaan, of which Jacob uttered that
in verse. There they
II. and Sarah his wife: there
and Rebekah his wife and
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