Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1894-03-29
AT THE TABERNACLE.
DR.. TALMAcgs ELOQUENT SERMON
ON EASTER IN GREENWOOD"

In. IEGMHdEo kGO3OGNI SEHHON
ON EASTER IN GREENWOOD"
Where tho Wound Of Death IL Bandaged
by Foiiage-christ's Bes1rrsctioa Is Our
Resurrection II We Arc His--The Good
Morning" 81 Our savioxr.
BRooKLYN, March 25.-The Easter serv-
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. Talmagc delivered
an eloquent sermon on Easter In Green
wood" the text being taken from Genesis
xiii, II, lS, "And the field Of Hebron,
which was in Machpelnh, which was before
Mamre, 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 Abraham"
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out.
Machpelah was It's name. It was an arbo-
resent beauty, where the wound of death
was bandaged with foliage. Abraham, q
rich man, not being able to 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-that re-
markable person who at 90 years OF age
had born to her the SON Isaac and who now,
after she had reached 127 years, had ex-
pired-Abraham 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 1t, now sticks on big
price-400 shekels OF silver. The cemetery
lot Ia paid for, and the transfer made in the
nrezence of witnesses in a public place, for
there were no deeds and no halls Of record
IN tbosa eariv Np,4s Then N a cavern of
limestone rock Abraham nut Sarah. aud a
few years altar himself followed. and then
Isaac and Rebekah. and then Jacob and
Leah. Empowered. picturesque and mem
orable Machnhelahl That Goods acren ded-
tented bv Abraham has been the mother of
innumerable mortuary observance The
nacronolia of everv civilized land has We'd
with its metronolis.
FAMorrs roxns
TbAmost hasutiful hills of Europe outside
the great cities are covered with obei.sk and
funeral vase and arched gateways and col
umns and narterres in honor of the inhumat-
ed. The Appian way of Rome was bordered
by sepulchral ccmmemorations. For this
purpose Pisa has its areades of marble
sculptured into excellent has-reliefs and the
features of dear faces that have vanished
Genoa has its terraces cut into tombs, and
Constantinople covers with cypress the 81
lent habitations, and Paris has its Pere Ia
Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac and
David and Marshal Ney and Cuvier and La
Place and Moliere and mighty group o.
warriors and poets and painters and mu
sicians. In ali foreign nations utmost gen
ius on all sides is expended in the work O.
interment. mummification and incinera
tion.
o,,r o, oo,rtrv consants In ba second I,
nons in raenect Ia the Iifeless body. Ever,
;trand totvn and neiohborbood Of nnv in
taII;genca or virtue has. not MANY mile
awaS ;ts sacred Enclosure where affection
bas angooed .culntor,s chisel and florist
: snada and artiicer in metals Ourown cit,
hos shown it, religion az well as it's art ii
+ho Yoonner which h holds the memorv O
thosa 1,ho have passed forever avav bv it
,Trnrass H;lls and ito Everpreens and II
,Caiv.ry and HoIv Cross and Friends, cen
etar;as
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Goa.s - onr 4 ,,srican Wsstm;nstar abhay
saEos,oI,. - ,.o,.,,srr .rsh;tact,,ra
pantbeon of rniohtv ones ascended elepie
~ stona Tl,.ds in mayhle whole genera
+;ons in paaca vaitino for other generation
~ io;n them No dorn,itory Of breatbles
.sIasnars in ali the world has 60 MANY might
load
THE INDUSTRIOUS DEAD.
Among the preachers of the gospel. Be
tbnne and Thomas Dewitt. and Bisho
lanes and Tyng. and Abeel. the mission
arv and Rsecher and Buddington. and Nj
Clintock and Inskip. and Bangs and Cha
min. and Noah Schenck and Samuel Har
son Cox. Among musicians, the renowne
,Gottscbalk and the holy Thomas HastinK,
Among philanthropists. Peter Cooper an
Isaac T. Hopper. and Lucretia Mott an
isabella Graham. and Henry Bergh. th
apostle Of mercy to the brute creation
Among the litterati. the Carys. Alice an
Phoebe; James K. Paulding and John
SAKE. Among journalists, Bennett an
n rs L.