Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-10
course of DR.. Talmage YeSter-
DAY in the City OF Brooklyn.
n Easter Servicp-He Asks and An
swers a Novel Question, Though
Practical and Tremendous
he GTowingIy Pictures the Final departure
of the bccept Ones for the Great
Jprusalem-The Sermon in Full.



4 decorated to-day for Easter service, and
lbe regular artists of the Brooklyn tab
srns lie were assisted by eminent musical
performers, The hymn sung before SER
bon was:
.we praise Thee, God, for the Son of Thy
Love,
For Jesus who died and is now gone above"
The subject of DR.. Talmage's sermon
was Machpelsh: or Easter Thoughts. 3"
h was based IN the words in Gen.
kill. II, IS: land the field of
Ephron, which was in Machpelah
as before Mamre, the field and the cave
which was therein, and all the trees that
were in the field, that were in all the
borders round about, were made sure
Into Abraham. Following is the SER
hon IN full:
Here is the first cemetery ever laid
but. Machpelah was its name. 1t was
an arbOrescent beauty, where the wound
pf death was bandaged with foliage.
abraham, a rich man, not being able TO
bribe the king OF terrors, proposes here
es far as possible TO cover up his raw
ges. He had no doubt previously no.
bleed this region, and now that Sarah,
bis wife, had died--that remarkable per-
Bon who at ninety years of age had born
20 her the son Isaac, and who now, after
she had reached one hundred and
twenty-seven years, had eXpired-Abra-
ham is negotiating for family plot for
her last slumber. Ephron owned this real
estate, anu after, i'll mock sympathy for
abraham refusing to take anything for
3t, now sticks on a big price-400 shekels
Df silver. This cemetery lot is paid for,
and the transfer made, in the presence
pf witnesses in a public place, for there
were no deeds and no halls or record in
those early times. Then in cavern of
rhinestone rock Abraham put Sarah and,
b few years after, himself followed, and
then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob
hnd Leah. EMPOWERED, picturesque and
nemorable Machpelah! That 'God IS
acre" dedicated by Abraham has been
Che mother of innumerable mortuary OBJ
kervances. The metropolis Of
EVERY CIVILIZED LAND
has Wed with its metropolis. The most
beautiful hills of Europe outside the
great cities are covered with obeIisk and
funeral vase and arched gateways anG
columns and Darterres in honor of the in
Aumated. The Appian way of Rome was
bordered by sepulchral commemorations.
For this purpose Pisa has its arcades of
marble sculptured into exquisite bas-
feliefs, and the features of dear faces
that have vanished. Genoa has its ter
Faces cut into tombs; and Constantinople
Bowers with cypress the silent habita-
lions; and Paris has its Pere- la Chaise,
on whose heights rest BaIzac and David
End Marshal NeY and CuvieT and La
Place and Moliere, and q mighty group
81 warriors and poets and painters and
snusicians. In all foreign nations utmost
Genius on all sides is expended in the
York OF interment, naturalization aud
lncineration.
Our own country consents to be second
90 none in respect 10 the lifeless body.
Every city and town ana neighborhood of
Inv intelligence or virtue has, not many
miles away, its sacred enclosure, where
afection has engaged sculptor's chiSel
ind florist s spade and ariiticer in metals.
Dur own city has shown its religion as
ell as its art, in the manner in which il
holds the memory of those who have
fassed forever away, by its Cypress
81 ills and it, Evergreens and its Calvary
Ind Holy Cross aud Friends cemeteries.
LII the world knows of our Greenwood,
Filth now about 250 600 inhabitants
sleeping among hills that overlook the
eea, and by lakes embOsomed in all Eden
81 flowers, our American Westminster
D bbey, an ACropolis of mortuary archi-
feCture, Pantheon of mighty ones as
4endpd, elegieS in stone, lliads in mar
lie. whole generations in peace waiting
Dor other generations TO join them. No
fOrmitorY of bTeRthless sleepeTs in all
Die world has so many mighty dead.
mong preachers of the gospel, Bethune
Ono Thomas Dewitt, ana Bishop James
NO Tying, and Abeel the missionary, and
seecher and BuddinEtou and MCClintOCk
end lnskip and Bangs and Chaplin and
oah Srhenck and Samuel hanson Cox.
mong musicians, the renowned Colts
silulk and The holy Thomas Hastings.
mong PhilauthrOpists. Peter Cooper and
kaac I. Hopper and Lucretia Mott and
ISABELLA Graham, aud Henry Bergh, the
Hpostie Of mercy to the brute creation.
mong the literati, the Careys, Alice
nd Phoebe, james X. Paulding and John
Sake. Among Journalists, Bennett
INC Raymond aud Greeley. Among
fleni'sts, Ornlsby Mitchell, warrior as
ell rs astronomer. and lovingly called
his soldiers "Old StarS;' the Dra-
EerS, splendid men, as l well know, one
them my teacher, the other my class
pate. Among inventors, Elias Howe,
- no, through the sewing machine, did
lore %
ALLEVIATE THE TOLLS OF woMANHooD
IAN any man that ever lived. and Pro- !
fssor Morse, who gave US magnetic /
Biography: The former doing his work !
iih the needle, the latter with the /
PundeTtoIt. Among physicians and |
lrgeons, Joseph {. Hutchinson, and !
arion Sims, and Dr. Valentine Mott, |
in the following eritaph, which he
dered cut in honor OF the Christian re-
gIon: Ny implicit faith and hope is
meTcitul Redeemer, who IS the /
SuFrecton and the life. Amen anu /
men This is our American Machpe-
n rs sacred 10 us as the Machpelah III
Rhaan. OF which Jucob uttered THAI
4storal poem in one verse: ''Thvra
fey buried Abraham, aud Sarah
we; there they buried Isaac. ard
e"eNah' ms wife, anu there buried