The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1890-06-27
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject. easter Thoughts"

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Text: nAnd the asld of Ephron, ,uhich
tcdS in Adchpeldh irhich l1dS before Mamre
the field aud the care which tCds therein,
and all the trees that t0ere in The field, that
rcerc IN oil the borders round Gbolt, leers
| made sure unto abraham. Gen. xiii,
II, Is.
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out.
| Machpelah was its name 1t was an arbores-
cent beauty, where the wound Of death was
bandaged with foliage Abraham, arich man,
/ not being able TO bride the King of Terrors,
proposes here, as far as possible. to cover up
up his ravages He had no doubt previously
noticed this region, and now that Sarah his
wife had died-that remarkable person who
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 a 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 a big price-four hum
| bred shekels of silver. This cemetery lot is
| paid for, and the transfer made, in the pres
ence of witnesses in a 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
Rebekah, and then Jacob and Leah. Eui-
. powered, picturesque and memorable Mach
,Dr.shi That Gods acre. dedicated by
Aham has been the mother of innumera-
AzStuary observances. The metropolis
s llized land has We'd with its me-
= rs pills of Europe outside
6vered with ohelisk and
81 Id arched gateways and coli
- parterres in honor OF the inhu-
The Appian Way of Rome was
2dered by sepulchral commemorations
For this purpose Pisa has its arcades of mar
bic sculptured into exquisite has reiefs and
the features of dear faces that haze van
ished. Genoa has its terraces cut into
tombs, and ConstantinOple covers with cy-
press the silent habitations: and Paris hasits
Pere-Lachaise, on whose height rests Balsac
and David and Marshal Ney and Cuvier and
La Place and Moliere, and mighty group
of warriors and poets and painters and mu-
sicians. In all foreign nations utmost genius
on all sides is expended in the work of in
terment, naturalization 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
telligence or virtue has, not many miles |
away, its sacred inclosure where affection !
has engaged sculptOr's chisel and florists |
spade and artificer in metals Our own city |
has shown its religion as well as its ert, in |
the manner in which it holds the memory or |
those who have passed forever away, by its |
Cypress Hills and its Evergreens and its Cal
vary and Holy Gross and Friends cemeteries. /
All the world knows of our Greenwood, with /
now about two hundred and fifty thousand /
inhabitants sleeping among hills that over
look the sea, and by lakes embosOmed in an /
Edenof flowers, our American Westminster
Abbey an Acropoiis of mOrtuary architec-
ture, Pantheon of mighty ones assembled,
elegies in stone, IIiads in marble, whole gem
erations in peace waiting for other genera
tions to Join them. No dormitory of breath
less sleepers in all the world Fas so many
mighty dead.
Among preachers of the gospel Bethune
and Thomas De Witt, and Bishop james and
Tying, and Abel the missionary. and
Beecher and Buddington and McClintock
and Inskip and Bangs and Chaplin and Noah
Schenck and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among
musicians the renowned Gottschalk and the
holy Thomas Hastings. Among the philaiI-
thropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper
and Lucretia Mott anu 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 G. SAKE. Among the journalists,
Bennett and Raymond and Greeley. Among
scientists, Ormsby Mitchell, warrior as well
as astronomer. and lovingly called by his
men, as I 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 any
man that ever lived. and Professor Morse,
Who saFe Us magnetic telegraphy; the
former dong his work with the needle, the
latter With ,he thunderbolt Among physi-
cans and t,rg eons, Joseph C. Hutchinson,
and Marion Sims, and DR.. Valentine Mott,
issfh To following epitaph VIII ch he ordered
cut il honor q the Christian religion: My
implicit faith and hope is in mercifnl Re
dsemer, who is the resurrection and the life.
Amen" This is our American
aEslah, as sacred TO US as the Mach
= s. : 1frlaan, Of which Jacob uttered that
T.: & sm in one verse: There they
en- and Sarah his wife; there
md Rebekah his wife and
e. X: i. Astinn, but it will
s.; = b. practical
~ ton. What
= = :. - cemeteries?
Is + T. pernatural
it is Gus
r. II :, fers over
(, r. 81 g. r.. Z Imay have
/ Christ's
r - - 1en 1 say
- i + + these lati-
s.. - Z and the
-; Ii :, :. f.. sar TO each
= III = + -: ~ lg months
the fiowers
- Nd and coaxed
f[ p. hey would not have
+ :; a the children of the Z
~ Pat this season and !
Be year, the Holy Land
= Is +. s. ~. 81 opulence. You find
= Il sly CT flowers there, some
- z indigenous to the far north,
q ious to the far south-the
=. h, C-ocus and anemone,
II. fy, -r8nium and ranuncu
81 sweet marjoram.
= at Beyrout you may see
=. sctiOn of about eighteen hun
= 'bf Holy Land flowers; while
& lees are the oak of frozen Chimes
E -narisk of the tropics, walnut and
& and hawthorn, ash and elder,
Fl ycamore II such floral and bo-
Sauties are the wild growths Of the !
* of what garden must be in Pal
And in such garden Jesus Christ
~ ter, on the soldiers spear. His last
" blood hed coagulated. And then see
s.fn. safF that all our cemeteries
sESud tree shaded. In June {
III r. + Ems garden.
+ tdIl say, how can you
-. Resurrection day will I
III. 'fIies? VIII it not leave |
- ~ Z '-|,4 ground2 On that day
81 b = tIIshquake, and will not this I
fz-sa p0Iis1 e lberdeen granite, as well I
10 slab that can afford but the two s
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