Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-03-26
THE RESURRECTION.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
EASTER IN GREENWOOD"

REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
"EASTER IN GREENWOOD"
The Great Tabernacle Thronged-The Pull
pit Almost Hidden With Flowers-The
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.
DIR. 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 it's name. 1t was an arbo-
resent beauty, where the wound of
death was bandaged with foliage. Abra-
Ii,
the king of terrors, proposes here, as far
as possible, to cover up the ravages. He
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 sor
Isaac, and who now, after she had
reached 1877 years, had expired-Abra-
ham is negotiating for a family plot for
her last slumber.
Ephron owned this real estate, and
after. in mock sympathy for Abraham,
refusing to take anything for it, now
sticks ON big price-400 shekels of sill
yer. The cemetery lot is paid for, and
the transfer made in the presence of wit
nesses in a public place, for there were
no deeds and no halls of record in those
early times. Then in cavern of lime
stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and
few years after himself followed. and
then Isaac and Rebel1ah, and then Jacob
and Leah. Embowered, picturesque and
memorable Machpelah! That Gods
acre" dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother of innumerable mortuary OBJ
servances. The metropolis of every civil
hzed land has We'd with its metropolis.
The most beautiful hills of Europe out
side the great cities are covered with
obeIisk and funeral vase and arched
gateways and columns and parterres in
honor of the Illuminated The Appian
way of Rome was bordered by sepulchral
concentrations. For this purpose Pisa
has its arcades of marble sculptured into
excellent Das-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 IL
Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac
and David and Marshal Ney and Gu
vier and La Place and MOliere and q
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 mum
MITIGATION and incarceration.
Our own country consents to be second
to none in respect to the ifeless body.
Every city and town and neiyhbCrhoOd
of any intelligence OF virtue has not many
miles away it's sacred inclosure, where
affection has engaged sculptor's clisel
and florists spade and artifcer in metals
we'll us it's art in the manner which ii
holds the memory of those who have
passed forever away by it's Cypress Hills.
and it's Evergreens. and its Calvary ar6
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 il
an Eden of flowers, our American West
abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary
Pantheon of mighty ones
assembled. elegies In stone, Iliads in mar
BILE, whole generations in peace waiting
for other generations to join them. Nc
dormitory Of breathless sleepers in al
the world has SO many mighty dead.
THE MIGHTY sLEEPERs.
Among the preachers of the gospel
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt and Bish
OPP James and Tying and Abel. the mis-
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 T. Hopper, and
Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graham, and
Henry Bergh, the apostle of mercy to the
brute creation. Among the 1itterati, the
Carys-Alice and Phobe-James K.
Paulding and John G.. SAKE. Among
journalists, Bennett and Raymond and
Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby
Mitchell. warrior as we'll as astronomer
and lovingly called. by his soldiers '.Old
Stars" Professor Proctor and the ORA
c11ln T
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