The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-03-30
THE. RESURRECTION.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
"EASTER IN GREENWOOD"

The Great Tabernacle ThroDged-The Pull
pit Almost Hidden with FIowers-Th
Usual Beautiful and Unique Sermon
BrookIyn's Famed Cemetery.
BROOKLYN, March 25.-The Easte
services in the Tabernacle today wer,
attended by immense audiences. Beau
tiful floral decorations almost hid tn,
pulpit from view, and the great organ
gave forth its most rapturous strains il
honor of the day. In the forenoon Rev
DR.. Talmage delivered an eloquent ser
mon on "Easter In Greenwood" the tex
being taken from Genesis xiii, II, 1S
"And the field of Hebron, which was ii
Machpelah, which was before Mamre
the field, and the cave which was there
in, and all the trees that were in the field
that were in all the borders round about
were made sure unto Abraham"
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out
Machpelah was it's name. 1t was an arbo-
resent beauty, where the wound of
death was bandaged with foliage. Abra-
ham, q rich man, not being able to bride
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-that remarkable person who, at 80
years of age, had born to her the son
Isaac, and who now, after she had
reached 1877 years, had expired-Abra-
ham is negotiating for family 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 big price-400 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 and no halls of record in those
early times. Then in 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 Goods
acre" dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother of innumerable mortuary OBJ
servances. The metropolis of every civil
lized land has We'd with it's 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 arched
gateways and columns and parterres in
honor of the inhumated. The Appian
way of Rome was bordered by sepulchral
COMMUNICATIONS. 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 la
Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac
and David and Marshal Ney and Gu
vier 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 ex-
pended in the work of interinent, mum
MITIGATION and incarceration.
Our own country consents to be second
to none in respect to the lifeless body.
Every city and town and neighborhood
of any intelligence or virtue has not many
miles away its sacred Enclosure, where
affection has engaged sculptor's chisel
and florists spade and artifcer 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 by its Cypress Hills,
and its Evergreens, and its Calvary and
Holy Cross and Friends cemeteries.
All the world knows of our Green
wood, with now about 100000 inhabit-
ants sleeping among the hills that over
look the sea, and by lakes embosomed in
an Eden of flowers, our American West
minister abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary
architecture, Pantheon of mighty ones
assembled, elegies in stone, Iliads in mar
BILE, whole generations in peace waiting
for other generations to join them. No |
dormitory of breathless sleepers in all |
the world has so many mighty dead.
THE MIGHTY sLEEPERs.
Among the preachers of the gospel,
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt and Bish-
OPP James and Tying and Abel, the mis-
sionary, and Beecher and Buddington,
and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs
and Chaplin, and Noah Schenck and Sam
uel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the
renowned Gottschalk and the holy Thorn
as Hastings. Among philanthropists,
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 Phebe-James K.
and John G. SAKE. Among
journalists, Bennett and Raymond and
Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby
warrior as well as astronomer
and lovingly called by his soldiers ''Old
Stars" Professor Proctor and the Ora
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
More, who gave us magnetic telegraphy,
the former doing his work with the
needle, the latter with the thunderbolt.
Among physicians and surgeons Joseph
Q. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and DR..