Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-03-26
EASTER SERMON.
DR.. TlLNAGg PREAC8BS BEFORE EASTER IN
l GREENWOOD"
An Impressive Easter Sermon By Tie Brillian
Brooklyn Divina-Soneihing Abou. Gene
larieS

BROOKLYN, March %, 1s04-Ths
Easter services In the Tabernacle to-
day were attended by immense audi
ences. Beautiful floral decorations al
most hid the pulpit from view, and the
great organ gave forth It's most raptur-
Gus strains in honor Of the day. In the
forenoon Rev. Dr. Talmage delivered an
eloquent sermon Oh: easter 10 Green
wood, " the text being taken from Gene
sis %: II, is: "And the field Of Hebron,
which was in Macbpelah, which was
before Mamre, the field, and the cave
which was therein and all the trees that
were in the field, that were in al 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 arborescent beauty, where the wound
OF death was bardaged with foliage
Abraham, a 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 per-
son VINO at ninety years Of age had born
30 her the son Of Isaac, and who now,
after she had reached one hundred and
twenty-seven years, had expired
Abraham is negotiating for family
al. N.. Nf-n.
owned this real estate, and after,
10 mock sympathy for Abraham, re-
fusing 20 take anything FOR lt, now
sticks on big price-iour hundred She
kels of silver. The cemetery lot is paid
for, and the transfer made, 10 the pres
ence Of witnesses 10 pa0lic place, for
there were no deeds and no balls of rec
ord in those early times. Then in a
cavern OF limestone rock Abraham put
Sarah, and a few years after himself
followed, and then Isaac aud Rebekah,
and then Jacob and Leah. Eml0wer-
ed. picturesque sud memorable Mach
pelahl That Gods acre" dedicated by
Abraham has been the mother OF in
Vulnerable mOrtuary O0servances. The
metropolis OF every civilized land has
We'd with It's metropolis.
IUE MOrL BEAU Itl T. III HILLS
OF Europe outside the great cities are
covered with obeusE and funeral vase
and arched gateways and columns and
parterres in honor OF the Illuminated.
The ApDian Way OF Rome was 6or-
dered by sepulcbral cOmmemorations.
For this purpose Pisa has lbs arcsdes OF
marble sculptured into excellent b3S re-
lieis, and the features of dear faces
that have vanished. Genoa has It's ter
races cut into tOmbs aud Constantine
pie covers with cypress the silent ha5i-
tati0ns; and Paris mas it's Pere la Chaise,
on whose heights rest BaIZlc and David
and Marshal Ney and Cuvier and La
Place and Moliere, and a mighty group
OF warriors and poets aud painters and
.oREig-lns. In all foreign nations Ut
-Suius on an sides is expended in
the WORK OF interment, mummifCatOn
and moderation.
Our own country consents 20 be sec
ond 10 none iu respect 90 the lteless
body. Every city and town and neigh
borhood OF any intelligence or virtue
has. not many miles away, its sacred in
closure, where affection has engaged
sculptor's chisel and florists spade and
artifcer 10 metals. Our own city has
shown its religion as well as Is art, in
the manner in which % holds the memo
~ OF those who have passed forever
away, by it's Cypress Hills, and It's
Eysrgreens, and it's Calvary and Holy
Cross, and Friends cemeteries. All
the world knows OF our Greenwood,
with now about two hundred and sew
ontY thousand Inhabitants sleeping
among the hills that overlook the sea,
and
BY LAKES ENlBOsONED
in an Eden Of flowers, our American
Westminster Abbey, an AcrOpolis Of
mortuary architecture, a Pantheon OF
mighty ones assembled, e,egies ia stone,
Iliads in marble. whole generations in
peace waiting for other generations 20
Join them. No dOrmit0ry of breathlesS
spleepers in all the world has so many
mighty dead
Among the preachers OF the gospel,
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt, and Bis
hop James and Tying, and Abel, the
missionary, and Beecher and Budding
son, and McClintock and lnskip, aud
Bangs and Chaplin. and Noah SChenCk
aud Samuel Hanson Cox. Among muSi-
clans, the renowned GOttsch2l6 and the
hoy Thomas Hastings. Among phllan-
thropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac IT,
Hopper, and Lucretia Mott and Isabella
Graham, and Henry Bergh, the apostle
OF mercy 20 the brute creation. Among
the iterati, the Carys, Alice and Phoebe;
James X. Paulding aud John q. SAKE.
Among Journalists, Bennett and Ray
mond and Greeley. Among scientists,
Ormsby Mitchell, warrior as we'll as
astronomer, and lovingly called by his
soldiers "Old Stars" Professor Proctor
and the Diapers, splendid men, as
well know, one Of them my teacher, the
other my classmate
Among inventors, Elias Howe, who
through the sewing machine, did more
60 alleviate the tolls of womauhOOd than
any man that ever lived, and Professor
Morse, who gave us magnetic tele-
graphy; the former doing his work with
she needle, the latter with che thunder
bolt. Among physicians and surgeons,
Joseph G. Hutchinson and Marion Sims
and Dr. Valentine Mott, with the fol-
loving epitaph. which be ordered cutin
honor Of the Christian religion; "ly
implicit faith and hope is IN merciiu.
Redeemer, who is the resurrection and
the life Amen and amen This is our
American MachDelah, as sacred TO Us as
she Machpelah iu Canaan, OF which Ja-
cob uttered
THAT PASTORAL POEM
In one verse: "There they buried Abrs-