Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-04-11
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIvINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Easter in Greenwood"

The borders round about, t1ere made sure ttTitc
A5rGhdn. Genesis xiii, II, 1S.
Here is the first cemetery ever laid out.
Machpelah was its name. It was an arbo-
resent beauty, whore the wound OF death
was bandaged with foliage. Abraham, 6
rich man, not being able TO bribe the king OF
terrors, proposes hero. as far "a possible, to
cover up the ravages. He had no doubt
previously noticed this region, and now that
SIrah, his wife. had died--that remarkable
person who, at ninety years Of age, had born
TO her the son Isaac and who now, after she
had reached 127 years, had expirei-Ahra-
ham is negotilting for family plot for her
last siumber.
Ephron owned this real estate, AMI after.
in mock sympathy for Abraham, re'u-ing TO
take anything for It, now sticks on a big
price-4OO shakels OF silver. The cemetery
lot is paid for, and the transfer made in the
presence Of witnesses in a public place, for
there We're no deeds and no halls of record
in those early times. Then in a cavern OF
limestone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a
few years alter himself followed, and then
Isaac and R"bekah, and then Jacob and
Leah. EmbOwered, picturesque and men,
orable Machpoah! That Goods acre" dedi-
Gated by Abraham has been the mother OF
innumera5le mOuuary obseryances. The
metropolis Of every civilized land has We'd
with its metropolis.
The most beautiful hills of Europe outside
the great cities are covered with obelisk and
umns and pgrterres in honor of the inhum-
med. The ADpian way Of Rome was bor-
deref by sepuchral cOmmemorations. For
this purpose Pisa has its arca1es of marble
s"ulpturei into excellent bas-relief5 and the
features Of dear faces that have vanished.
Genoa has its terraces cut into tombs, and
COnstantinOple covers with cyprus the silent
habitatiOns, and Paris has its Pere Ia Chai5e,
on whose heights rest BalZac and David and
Marshal Ney and Cuvier and La Place and
Moliere aud mighty group Of warriors and
pHeiS and painters and musicians. In all
foreign nations utmost genius on all sides is
expended in the work OF interment, mummi-
fcltiOn and incineration.
Oar own country consents to be second to
none in respect to the lifeless body. Every
cityant town and neighborhooi OF an intel
hgence or virtue has not many miles away
its sacred inclOsurc. where affection has en-
gagged srUlptors chisel and florists spade
and artiiicer in metals. Our own city has
shown its religion as well as its art in the
manner which il holds the memory of those
who have passed forever away by its Cypress
Hills. and lis Evergreens, and its Calvary
AMI Holy Cross and Friends cemeteries.
All the world knows OF our Greenwood,
tn now about 30, 900 inhabitants sleeping
among the hills that overlook tie sea. anI
10y lakes euLospmeI in an Elem OF flowers.
our Am T.rGn Westminster abbey, an Aero
polls Of moriuary architecture. Mt Pantheon
OF mighty ones assembled, e-a-,ies in stone.
lliads in marble, whole generations in peace
waiting for other generations to join them.
No dormitory Of breathless sleepers in all the
world has 50 many mighty dead.
Among the preachers of the Gospel. Be
thune and Thomas De Wittand Bishop James
AMI lying AMI Abeel, the missionary and
Berchrr and BuidingtOn, and McClintock
and Inskip, and Bangs and Chaplin, and
Noah ScheucE and Samuel Hanson Cox
Among musicians the renowned Gottsrhalk
ant the holy Thomas Hastings. Among
FIltau-Irg-.s-s. Peter Cooper AMI Isggr T.
Hopper, ali Lurratia 1Tots AMI Isabella
Graham, and Henry Bargh, the apostle Of
mercy 10 the brute creation. Anon, the
ltterau. the Carys-Alice and Phoebe
james X. Paulding and John G.. SAKE.
Among journalists, Bennett and Raymond
and Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby.
Mitchell, warrior as well as astronomer and
lovingly called by his soldiers "Old Stars :"
Professor Proctor and the Draper5 -
splendid men, as 1 well know, one OF them
MY teacher, the other my classmate
Among Inventors Elias Howe, who through
the sewing machine dill more to alleviate
the toIls OF womanhoOd than any man that
ever lived, an Professor Morse, who gave
us magnetic teieSraphy, the former doing
his work with the needle, the latter with the
thundcrnot. Among physicians and sur
g"ons Joseph G. Hutchinson and Marion
Sims AMI Or. Valentine Mott, with the fol-
loving cp.taph, which he ordered cut in
faith ani hope is in merciful Rsdeemer,
who is the resurrection and the life. Amen
and Amen Tuis is our American Machpc-
lJn, SO sT'r-l to US as the Machpelan in
CGgaIu, OF which Jacob uttered that pI-,o-ai
poem in 0I- verse: "Ehers they burie
Abraham AMI Sarah, his wife ; tnsrs thpg
buried Isaac AMI ReJekah, his wife, an
there buried Leah"
At this Faster service I ask and answer
what may seem novel question, but it wi!
H#IHHH l.. .H.. T.v.e I.
HG rs iui AMI tremendous question, What
WI rgsurrs scti1u day do for the cemeteries?
FIRST, / remark, it will be their sUpernal
h'1U,iiinatiOn. AZ certain seasons it Is Gus
tomHry IN all lands 10 streW flowers over the
T. Ouu IS Of the departed. It may have been
suggested 10y the fact that Christ's tomb was
in garden. And when 1 say garden l do
not moan 20 garden of these latitudes The
late fro,ts OF spring and the early frosts OF
autumn are so near each other that there
ar only few months Of lowers in the field.
All tine flowers We see to-day had TO be
p.ttrl and ropNci ami put under shelter, or
they would not have blOoned at al. Tnsy
are the children Oiths cOn5ervatOries. But
at this season and through the most OF the
year the Holy Land is all ablush with floral
Opu.enre.
You fnI all the royal family OF how-rs
there, some that YOU suppose Indigenous to
the far north and others Indigenous to the
far south-the daisy and hyacinth. croeus
aHi anemOne, tulip and water lily, gerlnium
AMI rluuuculus, miguOnette and sweet maT-
iorlm. In the college at Beirut you may see
Or. Posts collection of about 1900 kinds OF
Hoy Land flowers, while among trees are
the oaks Of frozen climes, and the lamar sL
OF the tropics, walnut and willow, ivy an
hawthorn, ash and elder, pine and sYcamorg.
II such floral and botanical beauties are the
Wild growihs OF the field, think of what a
Elr len must be in PalestiheI And in such a
garden Jesus Christ slept after, on the
soldiers spears, His last drop of blood had
cOagUlatei, And then see how appropriate
that all our cemeteries should be ilorllizaI
and tree shaded. In June Greenwood il
Brooklyn's Garden.
"Wel, them" you say, show can You
MAKE out that the resurrection day will
beautiiy the cemeteries? VIII it not leave
them plowed up Cround2 On that day
there will he an earthquake, and will not
this split the polished Aberdeen granite as
well As the plain slab that can afford but two
words-'Our Mary or Our Charley
Well, l will tell you how resurrection aly
viii hegUtiiy all the cemeteries. 1t vii! be
by bringing NJ the faces that were to u
once, and in our memories are to Us now,
more beautiful than any Gala lily, AMI tie
forms that are TO US more graceful than ans
willow by the waters. Can you think OF
anything mO-e beautiful than the leappeIr-
Hnro OF those from whom we have been
VaTtedr l do not care which way the tree
lhIl9 III tli'' 'tssal Ol lIt
or II the plOWshare that day shall turn un !er
the last rose leaf and the last china aster, il
out OF tho broken sod shall come the bodies
OF our loved ones not damaged, but irrI-
dated.
The ilea Of the resurrection gets easier to
understand IS I hear the phOnocraph unyoli
some voice that talked into it a year ago. just
before our friends decease. You touch the
irya-, ma tt0a - forth the very tones.
no very song ol ia- person that HreatItd
into it once, but is now departed. If y nan
ran do that, cannot Almighty God, without
hn!f trying. return the voice OF your depGrt-
cd? And li he can return tho voice. why
not the lips, and the tongue, and the tlr5at
that fashioned the voice? And If the . -,
and the tongue. and the throat why not the
hrIin that suggested the words2 And il the |
Brain, why not the nerves, of which the 5rlin |
IS tho headquarters? And II he can r';Ern |
the ls- -hinL .-- I
loss Ingenious? Aud ifthe muscles, WY not |
the bones, that are less vonderiu2 An il \