Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1894-03-31
THE RESURRECTION.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE breaches UPON
EASTER IN GREENWOOD.p


The Great Tabernacle Thronged-The Pull
pit Almost Hidden With Flowers--Ths
Usual Beautiful and Unique Sermon
Brooklyn's Famed Cemetery.
BROOKLYN, March 25.-The Easter
services in the Tabernacle today were
attended by immense audiences. Bean
tiful floral decorations almost hid the
pulpit from view, and the great organ
gave forth its most rapturous strainssir
honor of the day. In the forenoon Req
DR.. Talmage delivered an eloquent ser.
mon on easter In Greenwood" the text
being taken from Genesis xiii, II, e,
"And the field of Hebron, which was Il
Machpelah, which was before Marnre
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. Itwas an arbo:
resent beauty, where the wound Of
death was bandaged with foliage. Abra-
ham, rich man, not being able to bride
the king Of tezrors, 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 person who, at 90
years of age, had born to her the son
Isaac, and who now, after she had
reached 1877 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 a big price-4OO shekels of sill
yer. The cemetery lot is paid for, and
the transfer made in the presence of wit
nesses i'll Il public place, for there were
no deeds and no halls of record in those
early times. Then in 4 cavern Of lime
stone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a
few years after himself followed. and
then Isaac and Rel;al;ah. and then Jacob
and Leah. Ernbowcrcd picturesque and
memorable Machpelah! That Gods
acre" dedicated by Abraham has been
the mother Of innurlerable H,ortaary OBJ
servanccs. The metropolis of every civil
liked land has We'd with its 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
gateways and columns and rarterres in
honor Of the Illuminated. The Appian
way of Rome was bordered by sepulchral
commemorations For this purpose Pisa
has its arcades Of marble sculptured into
excellent bas-reliefs 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 its Pere Ia
Chaise, on whose heights rest Balzac
aR and Ba ggi95u fn 81 and poets a2
;T7,,ntters md Hiisicia7s n ri foreign
nations utmost genius on all sides is ex-
pended in the work of interment, num-
MITIGATION and incarceration.
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 its sacred inclosure, where
affection has engaged sculptor's chisel
and florists spade and artifcer in metals.
Our own city has shown its religion as
well as its art in the manner which it
holds the memory of those who have
passed forever away by its Cypress Hills,
and it's Evergreens, and its Calvary and
Holy Cross and Friends cemeteries.
All the world knows of our Green
wood, with now about 100000 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, a Pantheon of mighty ones
assembled. elegies in stone, Iliads in mar
BILE, 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,
Il.