Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-03-29
AT THE TABERNACLE.
OR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT SERMON
ON "eASTER IN GREENWOOD"

Morning" of Our Saviour.
BRooKLYN. March 25--The Easter scrv-
ices in the Tabernacle today were attended
by immense audiences. Beautiful 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 DR.. Talmage delivered
an eloquent sermon on Easter In Green
wood, " the text being taken from Genesis
xiii, II, 1s, And the field of Hebron,
which was in Machpelah, which was before
Manre, the field, and the cave which was
therein and all the trees that were in the
field, that were in all the borders round
about. were made sure unto a ABRAHAM
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out.
Machnelah was it's name. 1t was an arbo-
resent beauty, where the wound OF death
was bandaged with foliage Abraham, a
rich man, not being athletic bride the king
of terrors, proposes here Is far rs possible
to cover mp the ravages. He had no doubt
previously noticed this region, and now
that Sarah, his wife. had died-that re-
markabie person who at 80 years of age
had born to her the son Isaac and who now,
after she had reached 1877 years, had OK
pired-A braham is negotiating for fam
lily 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 a big
price-4OO shekels OF silver. The cemetery
lot is paid for and the transfer made in the
presence Of witnesses in public 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 a
few years after himself followed, ard then
Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob aud
Leah. Embowared, picturesque and mem
Orahic Machphelahl That God 5 acre dcd-
lcated By Abraham has been the mother of
iunumerahle mortuary ohservances The
metropolis Of every civilized land has WED
with its metropolis.
FAMOUS TONES.
The most heautiful hills Of Europe outside
the great cities ARE covered with obelsk and
.lneia vase and arched gateways and col
umus and uarterres in honor Of the inhumat-
ed The Appian way Of Rome was bordered
by stpulchral COMMUNICATIONS. For this
purpose Pisa las It's arcades of marble
sculptured into excellent bas-reliefs aud the
features of dear faces that have vanished.
Genoa has its terraces cut into tOmbs, and
Constantiuople covers with cypress he 81
lent 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 a mighty group OF
warriors and poets and painters and mu
sici2ns. In all foreign nations utmost gen
JUS on all sides is expended in The work oil
lnterment, naturalization and incinera
ton.
Our own country consents to be second tc
none in respect To ne lifeless body. Every
city and town and neigh borhood of any in
telligenCe or virtue has not many miles
away, it's sacred incloSure, where affection
mas engaged sculptor's chisel and florists
spade and arthccr in metals, Our own city
has shown its religion as well as its art If
the manner which it holds the memory o
those who have passed forever away by it:
Cypress Hill and its Evergreens, and it,
Calvary, and Holy Cross, and Friends Gem
eteres,
All the world knows of our Greenwood
with now about 270, 900 inhabitants sleep
ing among the hills that overlook the sea
and by lakes embosomed in an Eden o
flowers, our American Westminster abbey
an Acropolis of mortuary architecture, {
Pantheon of mighty ones assembled, eleRe
in stone, Iliads in marble, whole genera
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