Democratic messenger., 1894-03-31
THE RESURRECTION.
REV DR.. 1ALMAGE breaches UPON
''EAcTER IN GREENWOOD"
The Great Tabernacle Thr"ng.d-The Pui-
pit Almost Hidden with FIowers--The
Usual Beautiful and Unique sermon.
Itrooklxu'. Famed Cemetery.

1he Great Tabernacle Ihrobged The fui-
pit Almost Hidden with FIowers-The
UsuaI Beautiful and Unique sermon.
BrookIyn's Panied Cemetery.
BROOKLYN. March 25-The Easter
Eervices in the Tabernacle today were
attended 10y immense audiences. Beau
tiful floral decorations almost hid the
pulpit from view. and the great organ
gave forth its most rapiurous strains in
honor of the day. Ia the forenoon Rev.
DR. Talmase delivered an eloquent SER
mon ON Easter In Greenwood. the text
being taken from Genesis XIII. IL. II.
And the field of Hebron. which was in
Machpelah. which was before Mamre,
the field and the cave which was there
I'm. and all the trees that Were in the field.
that We're in all the borders round about.
were made sure unto Abraham"
Here Is the first cemetery ever laid ont.
Machpelah was its name. 1t was an arbo-
fescent beauty, where the wound oi
death was bandaged with foliage. Abra-
ham. rich man. not being able 10 bribe
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-tha: remarkable person who. at ~
years of age, had born Ia her the son
Isaac. and who now, after she had
reached l27 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 Ia take anything for it. now
sticks on big price-iO0 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 AMI no halls of record in those
early times. Then in Il cavern of lime
stone rock Abraham put Sarah. and
few years after himself followed. and
then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob
and Leah. Embowered. picturesque and
memorable Machpelah. That Gods
acre. dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother of innumerable nortuary OBJ
servances. The metropolis of every civil
liZed land has Wed with its metropolis.
BEAUTIFUL CITIES OF THE DEAD.
The most beautiful hills of Europe out
side the great cities are covered with
obelisk and funeral vase and archcd
gateways and columns and parterres in
honor of the inhumated The Appian
way of Rome was bordered by sepulchral
commemorations. 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 In
Chaise. ON whose heights rest Balzac
and David and Marshal Ncy and Gu
vier ana La Place and Molicre and
mighty group of warriors and poets and
painters and musicians. In all foreign
nations utmost genius on all sides is cx-
pended in the work of interment. mum
MITIGATION aud incineration.
Our own country consents to he second
10 none in respect Ia the lifeless body.
Every city and town and neighborhood
of any intelligence or virtue has not many
miles away its sacred inclo>ure. where
affection has engaged sculptor's chiscl
and florist's spade and artificer in metals
Our own city has shown its religion as
well as its art in the manner which i.
holds the memory of those who have
passed forever away 10y its Cypress Hills,
and its Evergreens. and its Calvary aIl
Holy Cross and Friends cemeteries.
All the world knows of our Green
wood. with now about 2.0.0O0 inhabit-
ants sleeping among the hills that over
la..ly l..l.
an Eden of flowers. our American West
minister abbey, AN Acropolis of mortuary
architecture. Pantheon Of mighty ones
ascended. elegies in stone, lliads in mar
BILE, whole generations in peace waiting
for other generations TO join them. No
dormitory of breaihless sleepers in all
the world has So many mighty dead.
THE MIGHTY sI.EEIERs
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 aud Inskip. and Banas
and Chaplin. and Noah Schenck and Sam
uel Hanson Cox. Among musicians. the
renowned Gottschalk and the holy Thorn
as Hastings. Among philanihrolists,
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 litterati. the
Carys-Alice and Phabe-James X.
Paulding and John q. SAKE. Among
journalists. Bennett and Raymond and
Greeley. Among scientists. Ormsby
Mitchell. warrior as well as astronomer
aud lovingly called by his soldiers "Old
Stars" Professor Proctor and the Drl-
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. whoga rs magnetic telegraphy,
the former doing his work with the
needle, the latter with the thunderbolt
Among physicians and surgeons Joseph
Z. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and DR.
Valentine Mott. with the following epi-
taph. which he ordered cut in honor Of
Christian religion: My implicit faith
and hope is in merciful Redcemcr,
who is the resurrection and the life
Amen and Amen" This is our Ameri-
can Machpelah. as sacred Ia MS 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 bnIied
Leah"
THE FAMILY OF FIowERS.
At this Easter service ask and an
swer what may seem a novel question.
but il will be found. before | get
through, practical and useful and tre-
mendous question, What will resurrec-
tion day do for the cemeteries! First.
Highest Of all in LeaveniRg Pc