The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-04-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Or. TAlMAaE's ELOQUENT SERMON
ON "eAsTEa IN GREENWOOD"

Our Resurrection II Ho arc Hls--Ihe
nGood nlorpiuE" of Our Saviour.
BROOKLYN, March 25.-The Easter
SERVICES in the Tabernncle today were
attended by immense audiences. Beautl
full floral decorations almost hid the pul
pit from view, and tho great organ gave
forth its most rapturous strains in honor
of the day. In the forenoon Rev. DR.
Talmage delivered on eloquent sermon
on "Easter In Greenwood" the tex
being taken from Genesis xiii, II, lS
"And the field OF Hebron, which was il
Machpelah, which was before Mamre
the field, aud the cave which was there
In and ali the trees that were in the iielt
that were in oil the borders round about,
were made sure unto Abraham"
Hero il the first cemetery cycr laid
out. Machpelah was It's name. 1t was
an arborescent beauty, where the wound
of death was bandaged with foliage.
Abraham, rich man, not beng able to
brIbe the king of terrors, proposes here
ages. He had no doubt previously no
ticed this region, and now that Sarah,
his wife, had died that remarkable per.
son who at 30 years Of age had born to
ber the son Isaac aud who now, after
she had reached l27 years, had expired
Abraham ls ne yotiatng for family
plot for her last slumb6r.
Ephron owned this real estate, and
after, in mock sympathy for Abraham,
refusing to take anything for II, now
sucks on big price--400 shokcls ct sill
yer. The cemetery lot is paid for, and
the transfer made in the presence Of
witnesses in n public place, for there
were no deeds arG no halls Of record in
those early times. Then in q cavern Of
limestone rock Abraham put Sarah, aud
few years after himself followed, and
then Isaac and lSebokah. and then Jacob
and Leah. Embowercd, picturesque and
memorable Machphelah! That Goods
acre" dedicated by Abraham has beeu
the mother Of innumerabe mOrtuary Gb-
servances. The metropolis OF every
civilized land has wed with its metropo-
lis.
The most beautiful hills Of Europe
outside the great cities are covered with
obelisk and funeral vase and arched gate
ways and columns and parterres in honor
of the inhumated. The Appiap way of
Rome was bordPrcd bv sepulchral conl-
memoratiOns. Tor this purpose Pisa
has its arcades Of M arble sculplurcd into
excellent bas.relief5 and the features of
dear faces that have vanished. Genoa
has Its terraces cut into tombs, and Con
stantinople covers with cypress the silent
habltatlons, and Paris has it's Pere la
Chase, on whose heights rest BalZlc
and David and Marshal Noy and Cuvler
and La Place aud Moliere and n mighty
group OF warriors and poets and painters
and musicians. In MI foreign nations ut.
most genius on all sides is expended in
the work OF interment, mummil!catior
and iucineraJion.
Our own country consents to be sec
oned to mono IN respect to the lifelcss
body. Every city and Town and neigh
bOrhood OF any in diligence or viriure
has, not many miles away, its sacred iu-
closure, where affection has engage
sculptor's chisel aud florists sprade and
artlflcer in metals. Our own city has
shown it's religion as we'll as its art IN the
manner which it holds the memory of
those who have passed forever a way bv
its Cypress Hills, and its Evergreens,
and Its Calvary, and Holy Cross, and
Friends' cemeteries.
All the world knows of our Groen.
wood. with now about 270, 900 inhabl-
tants sleeping among the hills that over
look the sea, and by lakes cmbosomed
In an Eden Of f)1ers, American West.
minister abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary
architecture, Pantheon mighty ones
ascended, elegiOs IN stone, Iliads IN mar.
bic, whole generations IN peace waiting
for other generations to Join them. M
dormltorY OF breathless sleopors in nll
the world has 81 many mighty dead.
Among the preachers Of the gospel
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt, and Bi,
hop James and Tying, and Abeel, tn,
missionary, and Beecher and Budding
ton, and McCllntock and Inskip, ant
Bangs and Chaplin, and Noah SrNrucl
and Samuel Hanson Cox. Amons
musicians, the renowned Gottschall
and the holy Thomas Hastings. Among
philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaa,
Il. Hopper, and Lucretia Mott and Isa
bella Graham, and Henry Bergh, the
apostle OF mercy to the brute creation
Among the htterati, the Carys, Alice
and Phoebe; James X. Paulding unt
John G. SAKE. Among journalists
Bennett and Raymond and Greeley
Among scientists, Ormsby Mitchell
warrior as we'll as astronomer, and low
lngly called by his soldiers "Old Stars;'
Professor Proctor and the Drapers
splendid mon, as / we'll know, one o
them my teacher, the other my class
mate.
Among inventors, Elias Howe, who
through tho sewing machines, did more
to alleviate the tolls Of womanhood tha:
any man that ever lived, and Professor
Morse, who gave us magnetic tele-
graphy, The former doing his work with
the noodle, the latter with the thunder.
bolt. Among physicians and surgeons,
Joeeph &. Hutchinson and Marion Sims
and DR.. Valentine Mott, with the fol.
lowing apltaph which he ordered cut in
honor OF Christian religion: "My i'm.
Pllclt faith and hopo is in q merciful Re-.
deemer, who is the resurrection and the
lie. Amen and amen." This is our
American Machpelah, as sacred to us as