Connecticut western news., 1894-03-29
THE RESURRECTION.
REV. DR. TALMAGE BREACHES UPON
 EASTER IN GREENWOOD"


 REV. DR. TALMAGE BREACHES UPON
 EASTER IN GReENWooD.p
 The Great Tabernacle Thronged-The Pull
 pit Almost Hidden With Flowers-The
 Usaal Beautiful and Unique Sermon.
 Breeklyn's Famed Cemetery.
 BROOKLYN, March a5.-The Easter services in the Tabernacle today were attended by immense audiences. Beau tiful 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. Talmage delivered an eloquent ser mon on Easter In Greenwood" :" the text being taken from Genesis xiii, IT, IS, And the field of Hebron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was there In, 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 its name. It was an arbo- rescent beauty, where the wound of death was bandaged with foliage. Abra- ham, 8 rich man, not being able to bribe the king of terrors. proposes here, as far as possible, to cover mp the ravages. He had no doubt previously noticed this region, and now that Sarah, his wife, had died-that remarkable person who, at 90 years of age, had born to her the son Isaac, and who now, after she had reached 127 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 big price-400 shekels of sil yer. The cemetery lot is paid for, and the transfer made in the presence of wit nesses in a public place, for there were no deeds and no halls of record in those early times. Then in cavern of lime stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and few years after himself followed. and then Isaac and Rebekah, and then Jacob and Leah. Embowered, picturesque and memorable Machpelahi That Gods acre" dedicated by Abraham has been the mother of innumerable mortuary ob- servances. The metropolis of every civi- hxed land has vied with it's metropolis.
 BEAUTIFUL CITIES OF THE DEAD.
 The most beautiful hills of Europe out side the great cities are covered with obelisk and funeral vase and arched getaways and columns and parterres in honor of the inhumated. The Appian way of Rome was bordered by sepulchral commemorations. For this purpose Pisa has it's arcades of marble sculptured into excellent bas-reiefs and the features of dear faces that have vanished. Genoa has it's terraces cut into tombs, and Con- stantinople covers with cyprus the silent habitations, and Paris has it's Pere Ia Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac and David and Marshal Ney and Gu vier and La Place and Moliere and mighty group of warriors and poets and painters and musicians. In all foreign nations utmost genius on all sides is ex- pended in the work of interment, mum mi6cation and incineration.
 Our own 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 it's sacred inclosure, where affection has engaged sculptor's chisel and florists spade and artificer 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 away by it's Cypress Hills. and it's Evergreens, and it's 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 an Eden of flowers, our American West minister abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary architecture, Pantheon of mighty ones ascended. elegies in stone, Hiads in mar ble, whole generations in peace waiting for other generations to join them. No dormitory of breathless sleepers in all the world has so many mighty dead.
 THE MIGHTY sLEEPERS.
 Among the preachers of the gospel, Bethune and Thomas De Witt and Bish- op James and Tyng and Abeel, the mis- sionary, and Beecher and Buddington, and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs and Chapin. and Noah Schenck and Sam uel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the renowned Gottschalk and the holy Thom- as 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 htterati, the Carys-Alice and Phnbe-James K. Paulding and John c. 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 Ora pers-splendid men, as we'll 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 ever lived. and Professor Morse, who gave us magnetic telegraphy, the former doing his work with the needle, the latter with the thunderbolt. Among physicians and surgeons Joseph c. Hutchinson and Marion Sims and Dr. Valentine Mott, with the following epi- taph, which he ordered cut in honor of Christian religion: My implicit faith and hope Is in merciful Redeemer, who is the resurrection and the life. Amen and Amen" This is our Ameri- can Machpelah, as sacred to us as the Machpelah in Canaan, of which Jacob uttered that pastoral poem in one verse: "There they buried Abraham and Sa- rah. his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah, his wife, and there buried LeAh.n
 THE FAMILY OF FLOWERS.
 At this Easter service ask and an- swer what may seem 8 novel question, but it will be fou1.d, before I get through, practical and useful and tre- .mendous question, What will resurrec- tion day do for the cemete, ies2 First. l remark, 1t will be their supernal beauti- fication. At certain seasons it is GUS