The Red Cloud chief., 1894-04-06
THE RESURRECTION.
REV. Or. TALMAce breaches UPON
EASTER IN GREENWOOD

h Great Tabernacle Th~ronsed-Ths Pui
pit Afmest Hidden with Fiowsrs-Th
usuai Dsautifai 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 thu
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 ssr
mon on easter In Greenwood, the text
being taken from Genesis xiii, II, 10
"And the field Of Hebron, which WA IN
Machpelah. which was before Mamre,
the field, and the ave which was there
In, and ell tho trees that were In the field,
that were in all the borders round about,
wero made ure unto Abraham"
Here IL the first cemetery ever laid out.
Mschpelah was its name. Il was an arbo.
resent beauty, where tho wound Of
death was bandaged with foliage. Abra.
ham, q rich man, not being able to bride
the king OF t~errors. proposes here, a. 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, ct 90
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 q big price-400 shekels Of sill
yer. The cemetery lot Is paid for, and
the transfer made In the presence Of wit
nesses in q public place, for there were
no deeds and no halls Of record in those
early times. Then In q cavern Of limo
stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and q
few years after himself followed, and
then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob
and Leah. Embowered, picturesque and
memorable Machpelahi That Goods
acre" dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother Of innumerable mortuary oh.
servances. The metropolis Of every civil.
lied land has We'd with its metropolis.
BEAUTIFUL CITIES on 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 sepuichral
commemorations. For this purpose Pisa
has its arcades Of marble sculptured into
excellent bas-reliefs and tho features Of
dear faces that have vanished. Genoa
has its terraces cut into tombs, and Con-
stantinople covers with cyprus the silent
h~abitations, and Paris has Its Pere Ia
Chaise, on whose heights rest BalEac
and David and Marshal Ney and Gu.
vier and La Place and Moliere and a
mighty group Of warriors and poets and
painters and musicians. In all foreign
nations utmost genius on all sides is ex.
pended In tho work Of intcrment, mum
MITIGATION and incarceration.
Our w 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 s~culptor's chisel
and florists spade and artificer in metals.
Our own city has shown its religion as
well rs its art In tho manner which IL
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 270. 900 inhabit-
ants sleeping among the hills that over
look the sea, and by lakes embosomed in
IN Eden OF flowers, our American West.
minister abbey. an Acropolis Of mortuary
architecture, a Pantheon Of mighty ones
ascended, 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 90 many mighty dead,
II MIGHTY sLEEPERs.
Among the preachers Of the gospel.
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt and Bish-
op James and Tying and Abeel, the mis-.
sionary, and Bcecher and Buddington.
and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs
end Chaplin. and Noah Schenck and Sam
hel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the
renowned Gottschalk and the holy Thorn.
Q Hastings. Among philanthropists.
Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper, and
Lucretia Mott and Isabella Graham, and
Henry Bergh. the apostle Of mercy to the
brute creation. Among the li~tterati, the
Carys-Alice and Phebe-James X.
Paulding and John G. SAKE. Among
Journalists, Bennett and Raymond and
Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby
MITCHELL, warrior as we'll as astronomer
and lovingly called by his soldiers 'Old
Stars;" Professor Proctor and the ORA.
per~s-splendid mon, 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 v lived, and Professor
Morse, whogave us magnetic telegraphy,
the former doing his work with the
needle, the latter with the thunderbolt.
Among physicians and surgeons Joseph
@. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and DR..
Valentine Mott, with the following cpl.