The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1894-04-04

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refusing to take anything for it, now
sticks on a big price-00 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 We're
no deeds-and 40 halls of record in those
early times. Then in a avern of lime
stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a
few years after himself followed. and
then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob
and Leah. Embowered, picturesque and
memorable Machpelahi That Gods
acre" dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother of innumerable mortuary OBJ
servances. The metropolis Of every civil
lied land has We'd with it's metropolis.
BEAUTIFUL CITIES OF II DEAD.
Themost beautiful illsof Europe out
side the great cities are covered with
obelisk end funeral vase and arched
gateways and columns and parterres in
honor of the Illuminated. The Appian
wayof Rome was bordered by sepulchral
COMMUNICATIONS. For this purpose Pisa
has itsareaded rhIe seuIpturedinto
excelentbasreEefsand t~hessfeatureso Of
dear faces that have vanished. Genoa
has its terraces cut into tombs, and Con-
stantinople covers with cyprus the silent
habitatioas and Paris has it's iPere Ia
Chase, On whose heights rest Balzac
and David and Marshal Ney and Gu
vier andahasPlacesanl aMoliere and a
mighty group Of warriors and poets and
painters and musicians. In all foreign
nations utmost genius on all sides is ex-
pendedm the workof interment, mum
MITIGATION and i~ncineration.
Our own countfyconsents to be second
to none in respect to the ifeless body.
Every city and town and neighborhood
of any intelligence OF virtue has not many
miles away is sacred inclosure, where
affection has engaged sculptor's chisel
and forist'sspade and arti6cer in metals.
Our own city has shown its religion as
well as its art In the manner which it
holds the memory Of those who have
passed forever away byits Cypress Hills,
and It's Evergreens, and its Calvary and
Holy Cross and Friends cemeteries.
ALI the world knows of our Green
wood, with now about 10000 inhabit-
ants sleeping among the hills that v
look the sea, and by lakes embosomed in
an Eden OF flowers, our American West
minsterabbey, anAcrepofssof mortuary
architecture, a Pantheon of mighty mes
ascended. elegies in stone, Lhads in
liz -ho1a raro~o<:oue ~ noooa vo;%;r~
for other generations to join them. No
dormitoeys0 f gbreath1ess sleepers in all
the wolAhassomay mighty dead.
The MaHTyAEEpERs.
Among fhespreaehers eE the gospel
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt and Bish-
op James and Tying and Abel, the mis-
sionary, and Beecher and Baddington,
and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs
and Chaplin, and Noah Sehenck and Sam
ueIHanson Cox. Among musicians, the
renowned Gottscha1k 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 ~litterati, the
Carys-Alice and Phebe-James K.
Panlding and John G. SAKE. Among
Journalists, Bennett and Raymond and
Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby
Mitchell, wrrioras well as astronomer
and lovingly called BY his soldiers "Old
Stars" Professor Proctor and the ORA
pers-spiendid men, as I 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, whogave Us magnetic telegraphy,
the former doing his work with the
needle, the latter with the thunderbolt.
Among physicians and surgeons Joseph
G.. 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 mercful 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 I buried
Leah"
THE FAMILY OF FLOWERS.
At this Easter service I ask and an
swer what may seem a novel question,
but it will be found, before I get
through, a practical and useful and ire
mendous question, What will resurrec-
ton day do for the cemeteries? First, /
remark, it will be their supernal beauti-
fcation. At certain seasons it is Gus
tomary in all lands to strew flowers over