Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-11-03

carpet. the calm unifo IL which
viii be harmoniously broken only ~
smoothly roads, avenues and
paths, BY carefully shade trees disposed
according to well-conceived plan, and
by the picturesque forest Of white and
gray stones holding up. each one OF
them, the cross Of the redemption as .
pledge OF future resurrection.
LET all and everyone join with one
heart, one soul and one good will in
the work of executing that wise de-
sign. Let it be done away here. as it
is done in all large cities, with those
old style adofnments in cedar, box
wood trees and other shrubs OF the
kind, which by their unsightly cut are
too strong a reminder of the past hard
ships of lives now gone by, to be fit
for place all the features OF which
should symbolic the calm and undis-
turbed quietude of rest.
II spent half day last summer along
the avenues and paths OF Greenwood
cemetery of Brooklyn, one Of the rich
est in the country, and l tell you I
could hardly satisfy my eyes with the
beautiful sight of that immense tract
of lawn, level upon the natural undula-
tions of the ground, uniformly carpet
ed with a grass of the purest green,
full of luxurious spring life, moved
with a scrupulouS care. and forming
a most pcetical ground for the thou
sands of rich monuments erected by
the wealth of two large cities to the
memory of their dead. A limited
number Of trees, we'll selected, planted
with discretion and trimmed with
taste, partly cover the white marbles
and the grassy lawn with soft
shadow spreading all over the ground
a mysterious tint OF sweet melancholy
which causes the visitor to murmur to
himself: This is indeed a nice place
to rest after the buzz of this life is
over
You are aware, my dear friends,
that the plan conceived by our Right
Rev. Bishop is to dress Mount Calvary
in that modern style, and to make 1t
burial ground of which not only
Wheeling but the whole State of West
Virginia will have reason to be proud
I do not deem it necessary for me to
encourage you to cooperate with his
efforts in the measure of your means,
or to stimulate your zeal and generos-
ity in regard to the care of your dead.
Your hearts tell you more than all the
discourses you may hear. Those who
sleep under this grass were dear to
you; thay are yet dear to you; they
will be ever dear to you. True love
does not die with the death of the loved
~ will
survive them not only in your heart
and soul as long as you live, but in
the heart and soul of those who will
come after you. They will follow your
example in embellishing the resting
place of their fathers and forefathers,
and will themselves bequest their ex-
ample to their children who will con-
tinue to make the old family lot the
object of their tender solicitude.
'@The care of the dead is, indeed, a
work of love. 1t is moreover a work
pleasing to the eyes of God, who, while
cOndemning Adam and his posterity to
death, never ceases to keep an eye of
mercy on their mortal remains, which
He intends to bring back to life again.
Hence it is that He rewarded Tobias
for his charity in burying the dead
he found neglected on the wayside.
But if that good patriarch showed so
much zeal towards strangers He had
never met, how much greater should be
your devotion to your own dead, who
came out of your own house, in whose
veins ran the same blood that is now
running in your own veins. There
fore, my dear friends, put aside every
year a share Of your income for the
adornment of your cemetery, always
entering scrupulously into the general
idea which presides over the work of
improvement now going on, because
nowhere are order, harmony and union
more needed than in the building up
of city of the dead. Beauty, as you
know, is the result of order, symme-
try and proportions, married with GER
tain uniformity. One or two features
on a pretty face are sufficient to rob
it of it's beauty. Two or three pieces
of common cotton patched amidst the
costly trimming of silk dress would
make vain the best efforts of the most
skillful dress-maker. In the same
manner, one or two lots left in neglect
are a break to the good appearance Of
a cemetery; two or three lots dressed
with bad taste and in bad style form
ugly patches which Illustrate in great
measure the efforts made otherwise to-
wards it's establishment.
81 conclude by urging once more all
and every one of you to be of good
heart in the work Of the improvement
of Mount Calvary, so that when you
wake up at the sounds of the trumpet
on the last day, you be not ashamed Of
the bed on which you will have taken
your long sleep in the Lord"
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