News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-29
News and Citizen.
MORRISVILLE and HYDE PARK
Thursday, March 90, 1894.
THE RESURRECTION.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
EASTER IN GREENWOOD"

The Great Tabernacle Thronged-The Pull |
pit Almost Hidden With FIowers-Ths
Usual Beautiful and Unique Sermon.
BrookIyn's Famed Cemetery.
BROOKLYN, March 25.-The Easter |
services in the Tabernacle today were
attended by immense audiences. Beau
tiful floral decorations almost hid the
pulpit from view, and the great organ
gave forth its most rapturous strains in
honor of the day. In the forenoon Rev.
DR.. Talmage delivered an eloquent SER
mon on easter In Greenwood" the text
being taken from Genesis xiii, II, IS,
"And the field of Hebron, which was in
Machpelah, which was before Mamre,
the field and the cave which was there
in, and all the trees that were in the field,
that were in all the borders round about,
were made sure unto Abraham"
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out.
Machpelah was its name. TWAS an arbo-
resent beauty, where the wound of
death was bandaged with foliage. Abra-
ham, rich man, not being able to bride
the king of terrors, proposes here, as far
DIS DOSSlDlc, W CONCI up IuC oSCo' liz
had no doubt previously noticed this
region, and now that Sarah, his wife, had
died-that remarkable person who, at 80
years of age, had born to her the son
Isaac, and who now, after she had
reached 1877 years, had expired-Abra-
ham is negotiating for family plot for
her last slumber.
tEphron owned this real estate, and
after, in mock sympathy for Abraham,
refusing to take anything for it, now
sticks on a big price-400 shekels of sill
yer. The cemetery lot is paid for, and
the transfer made in the presence of wit
nesses in public place, for there were
no deeds and no halls of record in those
early times. Then in a cavern of lime
stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and
few years after himself followed. and
then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob
and Leah. EMPOWERED, picturesque and
memorable Machpelahi That Gods
acre. dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother of innumerable mortuary OBJ
servances. The metropolis of every civil
liked land has We'd with its metropolis.
BEAUTIFUL CITIES OF THE DEAD.
The most beautiful hills of Europe out
side the great cities are covered with
obehsk and funeral vase and arched
gateways and columns and parterres in
honor of the Illuminated. The Appiaa
way of Rome was bordered by sepulchra1
concentrations. For this purpose Pisa
has its arcades of marble sculptured into
excellent bas-reliefs and the features of
dear faces that have vanished. Genoa
has its terraces cut into tombs, and Con-
stantinople covers with cyprus the silent
habitations, and Paris has its Pere la
Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac
and David and Marshal Ney and Gu
vier and La Place and Moliere and a
mighty group of warriors and poets and
painters and musicians. In all foreign
nations utmost genius on all sides is ex-
pended in the work of interment, num-
MITIGATION 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 intelligence 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 it's religion as
well as its art in the manner which it
holds the memory of those who have
passed forever away by its Cypress Hills, |
and its Evergreens, and its Calvary and |
Holy Cross and Friends cemeteries.
All the world knows of our Green |
wood, with now about 100000 inhabit- |
ants sleeping among the hills that over
look the sea, and by lakes embosomed in |
an Eden of flowers, our American West |
minister abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary
architecture, a Pantheon of mighty ones
assembled, elegies in stone, Iliads in mar
BILE, whole generations in peace waiting |
for other generations to join them. No |
dormitory of breathless sleepers in all |
the world has so many mighty dead.
THE MIGHTY SLEEPERS.
Among the preachers of the gospel, |
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt and Bish-
op James and Tying and Abeel, the mis-
sionary, and Beecher and Buddington, |
and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs |
and Chaplin. and Noah Schenck and Sam
uel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the |
renowned Gottschalk and the holy Thorn |
as Hastings. Among philanthropists, |
Peter Cooper and Isaac 7. Hopper, and |
Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graham, and
Henry Bergh, the apostle of mercy to the
brute creation. Among the Etterati, the
Carys-Alice and Phoebe-James K.
Paulding and John G.. SAKE. Among
journalists, Bennett and Raymond and
Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby
Mitchell, warrior as well as astronomer
and lovingly called by his soldiers ''Old
Stars" Professor Proctor and the ORA
pers-splendid men, as well know, one
of them my teacher, the other my class
mate.
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 gave us magnetic telegraphy,
the former doing his work with the
needle, the latter with the thunderbolt.
Among physicians and surgeons Joseph
@. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and DR..
Valentine Mott, with the following cpl
taph, which he ordered cut in honor of
Christian religion: my implicit faith
and hope is in a merciful Redeemer,
who is the resurrection and the life.
Amen and Amen" This is our Ameri-
can Machpelah, as sacred to us as the
Machpelah in Canaan, of which Jacob
uttered that pastoral poem in one verse:
'There they buried Abraham and Sa-
rah, his wife; there they buried Isaac
and Rebekah, his wife, and there buried
Leah
THE FAMILY OF FLOWERS.
At this Easter service / ask and an
swer what may seem a novel question,
but it will be found, before I get
through, practical and useful and ire
mendous question, What will resurrec-
ton day do for the cemeteries? First,
remark, 1t will be their supernal beauti- |
fcation. At certain seasons it is Gus
tomary M all lands to strew flowers over
the mounds of the departed. 1t may
have been suggested by the fact that |
Christs tomb was in garden. And
when l say garden do not mean gar
den of these ATTITUDES, The late frosts |
of spring and the early frosts of autumn |
are so near each other that there are
only few months of flowers in the field. |
All the flowers we see today had to be
petted and coaxed and put under shelter, |
or they would not have bloomed at all |
They are theschildren of the conservato
ries. But at this season and through |
the most of the year the Holy Land il
all ablush with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family of flow
ers there, some that you supposed indig |
enous to the far north, and others indig |
enous to the far south-the daisy ani |
hyaciiith, erocus and anemone, tulip an6 |
water lily, geranium and ranunculus
and sweat Tn fhe |