The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-03-28

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BROOKLYN, March 25.-The Easter
services in the Tabernacle today were
attended by immense audiences. Beauti-
ful floral decorations almost hid the pull
pit from view. and the great organ gave
forth its most rapturous strains in honor
of the day. In the forenoon the Rev. Dr.
Talmage delivered an eloquent sermon
on Easter in Greenwood. the text be-
ing taken from Genesis xiii. IL, IS, And
the field of Hebron. which was in Mach
pelah, which was before Mamre. the field,
and the cave which was therein, 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 Ii was an ar
borescent beauty. where the wound Of
death was bandaged with foliage Abra-
ham. rich man. not being able TO bride
the king of teTrors, proposes here as far
as possible TO cover up the ravages. He
had no doubt previously noticed this re-
gion. and now that Sarah. his wife. had
died-that remarkable person who al
ninety years of age had born to her the
reached 124 years. had eXpired-Abraham
is negotiating for a 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 a big pTice-400 shekels Of sill
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
frqn hon in r4r- sarrr of limo
stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a
few years after himself followed. and
then Isaac and Rebekah. and then Jacob
and Leah. EMPOWERED, picturesque and
memorable Machpelah That Gods
acre" dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother Of innumerable mortuary OBJ
servances. The metropolis Of every civ
ilized land has We'd with its metropolis
Famous TOmbs.
The most beautiful hills of Europe out
side the great cities are covered with
Obelisk and funeral vase and arched gate
ways and columns and batteries in honor
of the inhumated. The Appian way Of
Rome was bordered by sepulchral COM
memorations. For this purpose PISA has
its arcades of marble sculptured into ex-
cellent bas-reliefs and the features of
dear faces that have vanished. Genoa
stantinOple covers with cypress the silent
hantatOns. and Paris has its Pere Ia
Chaise, on whose nights rest Balzac and
David and Marshal Ney and Cuvier and
La Place and AIoliere and a mighty group
of warriors and poets and painters and
musicians. In all foreign nations utmost
genius on all sides is expended in the
work Of interment, naturalization and
incarceration
Our own country consents to be sec
in
body. Every city and town and neigh
ooThood Of any intelligence or virtue has
not many miles away. its sacred inclO-
sure, where affection has engaged sculp-
tors chisel and florists spade and artifi-
Ger in metals. Our own city has shown
its religion as we'll as its art in the man
ner which it 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 Greenwood.
with now about 10000 inhabitants sleep
ing among the hills that overlook the
sea, and by lakes embOsOmed in an Eden
or flowers. our American Westminster
ABBEY. an AcrOpOlis Of mortuary archi-
lecture. a Pantheon Of mighty ones
assembled. elegies in stone. Iliads in mar
Ole, whole generations in peace waiting
Tor other generations to join them No
dormitory of breathless sleeDers in all
the Wofld mas so many mighty dead.
The IllustriOuS Dead.
Among the preachers of the gospel
Bethune and Thomas Dewitt. and
Bishop James and Tying. and Abeel. the
missionary, and Beecher and Budding
ton, and McClintOck and Inskip and
Bangs and Chaplin. and Noah Schenck.
and Samuel Hanson Cox. Among the
musicians, the removed GOttschalk and
the holy Thomas Hastings. Among
philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac
t. Hopper. and Lucretia Mott and Isa
Della Graham. and Henry Bergh. the
apostle OF mercy to the brute creation.
Among the lttterati, the Carys, Alice and
Phoebe; James X. Pautding and John
g. SAKE. Among journalists. Bennett
and Raymond and Greeley Among
scientists Ormshy Mitchell warrior as
well as astronomer. and lovingly called
by his soldiers 'Old Stars Prof Proc
tor and the Diapers, splendid men. as
i well know, one OF them my teacher
the other my classmate
Among inventors. Elias Howe who.
through the sewing machines. did more
10 alleviate the tolls Of wOmanhOOd than
any man that ever lived and Prof.
Morse. who gave US magnetic tele-
graphy the former doing his work with
the needle. the latter with the thunder
bolt. Among physicians and surgeons
and Dr. Valentine Mott. with the follow
ing epitaph which ne ordered cut in
honor Of Christian religion: My implicit
faith and hope is in a merciful Re
deemeT, who IS the resurT ection and the
life. Amen and amen" This is our
American 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
Sarah. his wife; there they buried Isaac
and Rebekah, his wife. and there [
buried Leah"
The Resarrecfion Day.
At this Easter service / ask and an
swer what may seem novel question
but IL will be found, before get
through. a practical and useful and tire
mendOus question. What will resurrec-
ton day do for the cemeteries? First,
/ remark, it will be their supernal beau
LITIGATION. At certain seasons il is Gus
tOmary in all lands to strew flowers over
the mounds of the departed. It may
have been suggested by the fact that
Christ's tomb was in a garden And
when ! say garden / do not mean a gar
den Of these attitudes. The late frosts
Of spring and the early frosts Of autumn
are so near each other that there are
only a few months Of flowers in the
field. All the flowers we see today had
TO be petted and cOaxed and put under |
shelter or they would not have bioomed
at all. They are the children Of the con-