The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-04-18
THE RESURRECTION,
Dr.. Talmage breaches a Sea.
sOnable Sermon on East.
er Sunday.
The Glories That Await
the PiOus Dead DE.
scribed.

the PiOus Dead DE.
scribed.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, Special-The Academy
ofMusic was appropriately decorated to-day
for Easter service, and the regular artists o
the Brooklyn Tabernacle were assisted by
eminent musical performers. The h ymn sung
before tho sermon was:
eve praise Thee, o God, for the Son Of Thy
love-
For Jesus who died and il now gone above u
The subject of DR.. Talmage's sermon was
"Mnchpelah: or Easter Thoughts" 1t wa,
bnsed on the words IN Genesis xiii. 1918
And the field of Ephron, which was in Mach
pelnl,, which was before Mamre. the field and
the cave which was therein, md nll tho trees
that werein the field, aud were in all the l,or
dersround about, were made sure unto Abra
ham," Following is the sermon in full:
Here IL the first cemetery ever laid out.
Machpclah was it's name. 1t was an urbor.
escent beauty. where the wound of death
was bandnged with ioliage. Abraham, a
ricl, man, not leing nbIe TO bribe the King
OF fTerrors, proposes here. as fur as possible
to cover up his ravages. lle Ind no doubt
previously noticed this region, and now that
Sarah his wiio had died-that Iemurkabl
person who ut % years Of nso had born tn
her the son lsnnc, and who now, after sls
had reached 127 years. had cxpired-Abra-
ilam ~ negotiating lor II inmily plot for her
last slumher. Ephron owned his real est ate,
and after. in mock sympathy for Abraham,
rQingiufy tn fttn .
on IL big prico-4OO slekels of silver. This
cemetery lot is paid for. and the transfer il
made, in the presence of witnesses in a public
place. for there were no deeds md no halls ol
record in those early times. Then in II cav.
ern OF lim"stone rork Abraham put Sarah,
and, a few years after. himself followed, and
then Isaac nntl lleteknh and then Jacob md
Leah. Embowcret, picturesque and me,n-
orable MachIclnll That Gods urre' ledi.
Gated to Abraham has been the mother of
hnumerable mOrtuary ol,servances.
The metropolis ul every civilized lnnd hns
WED with its metropolis. The most beauti.
fi hills of Europe outside the grent cities
are covered with oheiak md funeral vase
nnd nrchel gnteways en,l columns md par.
terIes in honor of the inhumnted. The An.
pnn Way of Rome was boriprrd by sspul.
chrul COMMUNICATIONS. For this purpose
Pisa has its nrades of marble sculpturei in
to exquisite basr~licfs nn,l the features Of
dear faces that have vanished. Genon has
its terraces cut into tOmbs: and Constantine.
pie covers with cypress lie silent hnbiti.tlons;
nnd Paris hns ita Pere-la. Clluise, ON whose
heights rest Balzac and David and Marshnl
Ney and Cuvier anl l.a Place and Mulierc,
and nightly group of warriors and poets
md painters and musicians. In all foreign
nations utmost genius nn all sides is expend-
ed in the work Ot intcrmcnt, mummiticutiOn
and incineration.
l,,o., -,
none in respect to the lfrlcss body Every
city nnd town and neighborlood OF any in-
teligence or virtue has. not many miles
away. its anrrr,l inrlOsnre where nfrcrtinn en-.
gagged aculptor's chisel aud florists spn,ls
and ar!iliccr in metals. Our own city has
shown ita religion u- wei! nv it's art, in the
manner in which il holds the memory of
those who have passed forever nway, by its
Cypress Hills md its Evcrereens and its
Calvary aud Holy Cross and Friends GENE
terirs. All the world knows of our Green.
wood. with now about 25O, 600 inhabitants
sleeping among hills that overlook the sea.
and by lakes cmbOsomed il aii Eden of flow.
ers, our American Westminster Abbey. an
Acropolis OF mortunry architecture, n Pan.
stone, lliads in marble. whole generations
In peace waiting for Other generations to
join them. No dOrmitOry of heuthlrss
slrrpers in all the world has NO many
mighty dea,...
Among preachers of tho gospel Bethume
and Thomas Dewitt, aud Bishop james and
Tying. and Aberl III. III ssi0Enry nn,l Be.rlrr
and Buddington and MrClintock and Inskip
and Bangs aud Chaplin and Nonh Schenck
and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among mu.
sicans. tho renowned Gottschalk and the
holy Thomas Hastinga. Among philanthro.
pists, Peter Cooper aNd Isaac r. Hopper and
l.ucretn Mott md Isabella Graham, and
Henry Berell, the apostle OF mercy to the
hrute creation. Among tho literati, tho
Careys. hlre and l'llrlic. Jnmes X. Pauirlinr.
aud John q. Snxr. Among the Journalists,
Bennett and Raymond aud Greeley. Among
scientists. Ormshy Mitchell warrior us well
astronomer, and lovingly called by his sol
diers, "Old stars" tho Drapers, splendid men,
as vel knew, one uf them my tencler the
other my classmatr Among inventors. Elias
Howe. who through, the sewing machine, did
more TO alleviate the tolls Of womanhood
than amy man that ever lived, and Prof
Morse who gnve us magnetic telegraphy: the
former doing his work with he needle, the lat
ter with tho thundcrbolt. Among p!lysicinns
md surgeons, Joseph Z. Hutchinson, Marion
Sims. and DR.. Valentine Mott, with the tol.
lowing cpitaph which he ordered cut in honor
OF the Christian religion: My implicit faith
and hope is in II merciul Ke,leemrr. vii is
the resurrection and the life. Amen and
amen.' This is our American MnchrsluI. M
sacred to ,,s as thu Machpe!nl in Cnnanu. OF
which Jacob uttered that pastoral poem in
one verse: "rlere they buried Abraham and
Sarah, his wife, there they buried lsnac and
Rebskah his wife; und there buried Leah
At this Easter scrvire | uak and answer
what may seem u novel question, h.t it viii
bo found. before get through, a pr,.rtirnl
and useful aud tremendous question. Whit
will resurrection duy do for tlle cemetcr, u,
First. ! remark that it will be their supern
Identification. At certain season it IL Gu,
tonary in NIL lands TO strew flowers over the
suggested by the fnct that Gllrist's tomb was
in u garden. And when | say garden do
not mean u garden OF these lntitudes. The
late frosts OF spring and the early irosts Of
autumn are SO near to enrh other that there
are only u few months Of flowers in the fields
Az the flowers we see to-day had to he pot.
are the children Of the
ries. But Mt this season, OF
most of the year, thu e'y
is all ablush with tnrll op, agG
all the royal famiy Of flow,1 til
that you supposed indigcn,
North. and Others eraindgenouat
the dnisy and hync;n,h. the
tulip and wnter-lily, x.
migonnctte 8 and sy
In tho college ut l'eyrout y.
Posts cc'!action of about
Holy land flowers, while mr. ~
oak Of frozen climcs. ami q
tropics, walnut und willow ClS
thorn; ash and elder. pine a, aloN
wild growths OF the fields, t3imos
garden must be in Palestine! AThe
garden Jesus Christ slept nftcfs,ere
diers spear. His lnst drop o. bloo,:, a,uo.
United. And see how appropriate y"ef,
our cemeteries should be floralized an ceda
Hhnded. In June, Greenwood is Broo nises