Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-04-12
THE RESURRECTION.
An Easter Sermon by Rev. t. De-
Witt Talmage, D. D.
what Easter Means to the Millions of
sleepers in the Worlds Cemeteries
On Resurrection Morn Jesus Will
Throw Open the Sepul-
chers and Lead the
Way to Heaven.

in Greenwood the text being takeI
from Genesis xii, II, IS:
And the field of Hebron. which was in Mach
oelah, which was before Mamre, the field. ant
the cave which was therein, and all the tree.
that were in the field. that were in all the Dor
hers round about, were made SURE unto Abra
nam
Here is the first cemetery ever laid
out. Maehpelah was its name. 1t was
an arborescent beauty, where the
wound of death was bandaged with
foliage. Abraham, rich man, not
being able to bride the King of Ter
rors, 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 nine
ty years of age had born TO her the son
Isaac, and who now, after she had
reached one hundred and twenty-seven
gears, had expired-A braham is nego-
tiating for a family plot for her last
slumber Ephron owned this real es-
tate, and after, in mock sympathy for
Abraham, refusing to take anything
FOR it. now sticks on big price-four
hundred shekels of silver. The ceme-
iery lot is paid for, and the transfer
made. in the presence of witnesses in
public place, for there were no deeds
md no halls of record in those early
lines. Then in a cavern of limestone
rock Abraham put Sarah, and few
gears after, himself followed, and then
Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob
and Leah. Uncovered, picturesque
and memorable Machpelah! That
Gods acre" dedicated by Abraham
has been the mother of innumerable
mortuary observances. The metropolis
of every civilized land has WED with
its metropolis.
The most beautiful hills of Europe
outside the great cities are covered
with obelislk and funeral vase and
arched gateways and columns and par
terres in honor of the insumated 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 Constantinople COW
ers with cypress the silent habitations;
and Paris has its Pere la Chaise, on
whose heights rest Balzac and David |
and Marshal Ney and Cuvier and La |
Place and Moliere, and mighty group |
Of warriors and poets and painters
and musicians. In all foreign nations |
utmost genius on all sides is expended |
in the work of interment, mummifica-
lion and incineration.
Our own country consents to be sec
md to none in respect to the lifeless
body Every city and town and neigh
oorhood of any intelligence or virtue
las, not many miles away, its sacred
nelosure, where affection has engaged
iculptor's chisel and florists spade and
lrtificer in metals. Our own city has
hown its religion as well as its art in
he manner in which it hol Is the mem
Try of those who have passed forever
WAY. by its Cypress Hills, and its
1vergreens, and its Cavalry, and Holy
ross and Friends cemeteries. All
he world knows of our Greenwood,
With now about two hundred and sew
nty thousand inhabitants sleeping
mong the hills that overlook the sea.
nd by the lakes enbosomed in an Eden
t flowers, our American Westminster
bbev. an Acropolis of mortuary archi.
ecture, pantheon of mighty ones as
ended, elegies in stone, Iliads in
larble. whole generations in peace
rating for other generations to join
hem. No dormitorv of breathless
leepers in all the world has SO many
rightly dead.
Among the preachers of the gospel
ethuue and Thomas Dewitt, and
ishop James and Tying, and Abeel, the
Missionary. and Beecher and Budding
m and McClintock and Inskip, and
angs and Chaplin, and Noah Schenck
nd Samuel Hanson Cox Among mu-
clans. the renowned Gottschalk and
Re holy Thomas Hastings Among
Peter Cooper and Isaac
Hooper. and Lucretia Mott and Isa-
lila Graham and Henry Bergh, the
,ostle of mercy to the brute crea-
on.
Among the literati, the Carvs, Alice
nj Phoebe: James X. Paulding and !
,bn G. SAKE. Among journalists
emmett and Raymond, and Greeley. q
monr scientists, 0rmsby Mitchell.
arrior as well as astronomer, and !
vinglv called by his soldiers ''Old !
ars;r Professor Proctor and the Dra Q
rs. splendid men, as ! well know, 0
Ie of them my teacher, the other my a
assmate. ;
Among inventors, Elias Howe, who n
rough the sewing machine did more n
alleviate the tolls of womanhood p
an any man that ever lived, and Pro- ;
,sor Morse, who gave us magnetic b
.egraphy; the former doing his work p
IN the needle, the latter with the n
a thunderbolt Among physicians d
d surgeons, Joseph c. Hutchinson re
4 Marion Sims and DR.. Valentine o
,tt with the following epitaph which 1t
ordered cut in honor Of Christian &C
ioion: MY implicit faith and hope Vi
In a merciful redeemer, who is the NJ
,nreetion and the life. Amen and be