The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-03-30

gave him stone. Christ. like every other
benefactor Of the world, was better
appreciated after he was dead.
Westminster Abbey and monumental
Greenwood are to a certain extent the
worlds attempts by mortuary honors TO
atone for neglects 70 the living. Poets
corner in Westminster Abbey an attempt
70 pay for the sufferings Of Grub Street.
20 into that poets corner of Westminster
Abbey and there find the grave OF Handel,
the musician from whose music we hear to-
day, as il goes down reverberating through
the ages While stand at the costly tomb
of Handel, cannot forget the fact that his
fellow musicians tried to destroy him with
their disc0rds / 20 a little further in the
Poe.s' Corner Of Westminster Abbey
and l find the grave of John Dry
den, the great poet Costly monu-
ment, great mortuary honors, but can.
not forget the fact that at 20 years OF
age be wrote about the expressions of mis-
fortune and that he made contract for a
thousand verses at sixpsnce line. / go q
little further on in the Poets Corner and l
find the grave OF Samuel Butler, the author
of "Hudibras." Wonderful monument,
costly m rtuary honors. Where did he diet
In a garnet. l move further on In the
Poets Corner, and 1 find the grave Of a
poet Of whom Waller wrote: IAN old
schoolmaster by the name of John Milton
has written a tedious volume on the fall Of
man. If its length be no virtue, it has
nonen / 90 a little further on in the
Poets Corner and l find the grave If Sheri-
dan. Alasl for Sheridan. Poor Sheridanl
Magnificent mortuary honors. What a
pity it was he could not have discounted
that monument for a mouthful OF some
thing to eatl o, unfilial children, give your
old parents less tombstone aud mere
blankets, less funeral and more bedroom
Five per cent of the money now expended
at Burns banquets would have made the
great Scotch poet comfortable and kept him
from being almost harried to death by the
drudgery of an exciseman. Horace Gree
ley-outrageously abused while he lived
going out to his tomb, was followed by the
President of the United States and the lead
fog men of the army aud the navy. Some
people could not say bitter enough things
about him while he lived; all the world
rose up TO do him honor when he died.
Massachusetts, at the tomb OF Charles Sum-
ner, tried to atone for the ignominious
resolutions with which her legislature
denounced the living senator. 1t was to
late The costly monument at Springfield,
Ill, cannot pay for Booths bullet Costly
mortuarY honors on the banks OF Lake
Erie-honors that cost between 5000, 900 and
$300, 000-cannot pay for the assassination OF
James A. Garfield. Do justice to the living.
All the justice you do you will have TO do
this side the gates of the metropolis. The
dead cannot wake up to count the number
of carriages in the procession, or see the
polish on the Aberdeen granite, or to read
the words of epitaphal commemoration.
Costly mausoleum of the gentleman In the
suburbs of Jerusalem cannot atone for
Bethlehem's manger and Calvarean cross
and Pilates ruffian judiciary.
Again, Standing in this place where the
Lord lay, am impressed with the fact that
floral and sculptural ornamentation are ap-
propriate for the places of the dead. We
are ell glad that in the short time of the
Savior's Inflammation he lay amid flowers
and sculpture. l cannot quite understand
what l see in the newspapers, where, amid
the announcements of obsequies, the friends
request, 'Send no flowers" Why, there is
no place so appropriate for flowers as the
casket of the departed. If your means
Rllow-I repeat, if your means allow-let
there be flowers on the casket, flowers on
the heerse. flowers on the grave. Put them
on the brow; il means coronation
Put them in the hand; it
means victory. Christ was buried in a
parterre. Christ was buried in a garden.
Flowers are types of resurrection. Death
is sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory
and arboretum do all they can in the way Of
alienation. Your little girl loved flowers
while she was alive. Put them in her hands,
now that she cannot 60 forth and pluck
flowers for herself. On sunshiny days twist
a garland for her still heart. Brooklyn has
no grander glory than her Greenwood, nor
Boston than her Mount Auburn, nor Phila.
delphia than her Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati
than her Spring Grove, nor San Francisco
than her Lone Mountain. What shall say
Of those country graveyards where the vines
have fallen down and the slab is aslant and
the mound is caved in, and the grass
is the paSture-ground for the
sections cattle. Are your father and mother
Of so little account you have no more re-
spect than that for their bonesl Some day
gather together and straighten up the fence
and lift the slab, and bank up the mound
and tear out ths weeds and plant the
shrubs. After awhile, you yourself will
want to lie down to the last slumber IL
you have no regard for the bones Of your
ancestors, your children will have
no difference for your bones. Do you say
these relics are Of no Importance You will
see Of how much Importance they are
when the archangel takes out his trumpet.
Turn all your graveyards into gardens.
Standing in this place where the Lord lay,
l am also impressed with the dignity of un-
pretending obsequies. Joseph that day was
mourner. sexton, liveryman-had the entire
charge of all the occasion Four people only
at the burial of the King of the universe.
Let this be consolatory to those who through
small means, or lack of large acquaintance,
have but little demonstration of grief at the
grave of their dead. 1t is not necessary.
Long line or giltteripg equlpRges two rows
Of silver handles, casket Of costly wood, pail
bearers scarfed and gloved are not necessary.
Christ looks out from heaven at a burial
where there are six in attendance and re-
members there are two mors than
he had at his obsequies. Not rec
ognizng this idea how many small proper
ties are scattered in the funeral rites, and
widowhood and orphanage go out to the
cold charity of the word. The departed
left enough property to have kept the
family together until they could take care
of themselves, but it is ali absorbed in the
funeral rites. That went for crepe which
ought to have gone for bread. A man of
small means can hardly afford to die in one
of our great cities! Funeral pageantry is
not necessary. No one was ever more
lovingly and tenderly put into the grave
than Christ, but there were only four in the
procession.
Again, standing in this place where the
Lord lay, am impressed with the fact that
you cannot keep the dead down. The seal
of the Sanhedrim, a regiment of soldiers
from the tower Of Antonlo to stand guard.
floor of rock, roof of rock, wall of rock.
niche of rock, cannot keep Christ in the