Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1894-04-05
n RASTER SERMO ON.
!, .r WILL RESURRECTION DAY
-" DO FOR CEMETERIEsf

'nN 10 FOR CnMETERIEss
v.xd Qaestisl& Asked and Answer
1.-The supernal Beautthcatioa Of
~. Places of the Dead-The Idea Of
.he ResurrectlOn.
Brooklyn, N. T., Special The Easter
aylces at the Tabernacle to-day were
t,m ned by immense audiences. Beau
hl floral decorations almost hid the
,ud,t from view, and the great organ
AVE- forth It's most rapturous strains
honor Of the day. In the forenoon
lob DR.. Tnlmagc delivered .an elo-
nuen. salmon on "Easter in Green
.prl." the text being taken from Gene
IL xiii, n, 18: "And the aield Of Eph-
nn which wis in Machpelah, which
VAS before AIamre. tile field md the
NV, which was therein, and all the
frees that were in tie :ield. that We're
IN all the bcr lcfs rOuu,lanour. were
made sure unto Abraham
Here lis the first cemetery ever laid,
mn. MAclllMlah was It's name. Ii was
In arloresc..nt beauty. .whe:a the
wound of death was hanliaynd with
foliage. Abraham, rich MIN, not be-
bnc able to bribe the k,ng y. tea ors,
nroposes here. as far as possible, to
cover up the rav,yes. He had no doubt
previously no. .cnd this region. and now
that Sarah, his wife, had dietl-that re-
markable person, who. at 90 years of
asp had born to her the son Isaac,
and who now, after she had reached
197 years, had expired is
negotiating for a family plot for her
Inst slumber. EphrOn owned this real
estate, aud after, in mock sympathy
for Abraham, refusing to take any
thing for 1t, now sticks on big price
400 shekels of silver. The cemetery
lot Is paid for, and the transfer made,
In the presence Of witnesses in q pub
lie 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 Rcbellah, and then Jacob and Leah.
Uncovered, picturesque and memoir
able Machpelah! That Gods acre" de-
dicated by Abraham has been the moth
er Of innumerable mortuary Observ-
ances. The metropolis of every civiliz-
ed land has We'd with its metropolis.
The most beautiful hills of Europe
outside the great cities are covered with
obelisk and funeral vase and arched
getaways and columns and parterres
In honor of the Illuminated. The APP
plan Way Of Rome was bordered by
sepulchral commemOrations. For this
purpose Pisa has its arcades or marble
sculptured into excellent base reliefs,
and the features Of dear faces that
have vanished. Genoa has its terraces
cut into tombs, and Constantinople
covers with cypress the silent habita-
ton, and Paris has its Pere Ia Chaise,
on whose heights rest Balzac and Da-
vid and Marshal Ney and Cuvied and
La Place and Moliere, and a mighty
groups of warriors and poets and paint
ers and musicians. In all foreign ma
| tons utmost genius on all sides is ex-
| pended in the work Of iterment, num-
MITIGATION and moderation.
Our own country consents to be sec
| ond to none in respect to the lifeless
! body. Every city and town and neigh
borhood Of any intelligence or virtue
/ has, not many miles away, its sacred
| inclosllre, where affection has engaged
sculptor's chisel and florists spade and
artifcer 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 it's Cypress Hills, and its Ev-
ergreens, and its Calvery, and Holy
Cross, and Friends cemeteries. All
the world knows of our Greenwood,
with now about 275,OO0 inhabitants
sleeping among the hills that overlook
the sea, and by lakes embosomed In an
Eden Of flowers, our American West
Minister Abbey an Acropolis of mortu-
airy architecture, a Pantheon Of mighty
ones assembled elegies in stone, lliads in
marble, whole generations In peace
waiting for other generations to JOIN
them. No dormitory or GREATNESS
sleepers in all the mighty world has SO
many mighty dead.
Among the preachers Of the gospel,
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt, and Bis
hop James and Tying, and Abeel, the
missionary, and Beecher and Budding
ton, and ,NcClintOck and Inskip, and
Bangs and Chaplin, and Noah Schenck
and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among mu-
scians the renowned Gottschalk and
the holy Thomas Hastings. Among
philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac
T. Hopper, and Lucretia Mott and lsa-
bella Graham, and Henry Bergh, the
apostle of mercy to the brute creation.
Among the literati, the Carys, Alice
and Phoebe; James X. Paulding and
John g.. SAKE. Among journalists Ben
nett and Raymond sand Greedy. Among
scientists .Ormsby Mitchell, warrior as
well as astronomer and lovingly called
by his soldiers sold Stars" Professor
Proctor and the Diapers, splendid men,
as 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 Prof.
Morse, who gave us magnetic tele-
graphy; the former doing his work with
his needle, the latter with the thunder
bolt. Among physicians and surgeons,
Joseph G. Hutchinson and Marion Sims
and DR.. Valentine Mott, with the fol-
a lowing epitaph which he ordered cut In
honor Of (yhfiat1an religion: INV fmpli-