The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-09-07
THE SECOND DAYS SESSION
Continued from Fifth Page.)

N-' +Aito NhCN HllO lliG ldNUleI leN
 might be- The graveyard was peopleC
 With ghosts, and witches dominated tn,
 Christian families
 The stocks were at each church's door,
 Ine gallows stood on Boston Common;
 Paplsts ear the pillory bore,
 Ihe galloWs-rope q Quaker woman."
 While the clergy of the brave com
 monwealth treated Baptist and Episco
 palian as St. Patrick did the snakes
 The burying ground was shunned
 and neglected, brambles and weeds hid
 the graves and the solemn joylessness
 of the place reflected the character of
 the people; determined, desperate in
 their grim determination to lay broad
 and deep and strong, the foundations of
 new empire, they banished sunshine
 from their lives and the mournful vines
 which grow in the shadow of supersti-
 tion traced the story of the scarlet let-
 ter on many a heart and around many
 neglected graves. If you would know
 all the story visit the grave-yards in
 country villages which still remain. But
 the world was moving on. and in the
 East, in the environs of Constantinople
 the Turks had laid out cemetery oc-
 cupyng much territory, had adorned it
 with cedars and palms and beautiful
 shrubs, wide avenues cut it into sug- gested shapes and water and marble di-
 rected by art and wealth, made it a
 book to be read, and pleasure ground to be visited and enjoyed, not a gloomy graveyard to be summed. For the Mo- hammedan heaven is full of brightness and joy, the grave is the door to heav- en. Heaven is paradise for the faith full, and the path is through the grave.
 The warrior whose body lay on the bat tlefleld stepped through the open grave to the elysion fields, and the fellaheen who died for the faith, enjoyed equally with the warrior the nectar and the houri and amending bliss.
 The cemetery at Constantinople tells the story of the Mohammedan religion, the Mohammedan heaven and Oriental civilization. France, England and Amer ica adopted the suggestion and our great cemeteries and their history-telling monuments afe the result.
 Civilization and sculpture have gone hand in hand through the ages and the path has had but little deviation. The peoples of the world have staggered down the centuries cross the line with strangely suggestive zigzags as Iva riatons' cross and recross the air of some old sweet song, but the markings of the grave follow the line and are the milestones on the broad highway of the centuries, showing the way civilization has come. The caves, cairns, mounds and dolmens tell of the beginnings, of the wild life, the struggle with unsym- pathetic nature and the gradual uplift. The round-towers, the obelisks the al- tars of the worshippers of fire intensity the story by writing more plainly the details, and preparing us for the pyra. mids, which record and represent the history of the pre- historic world. From | the pyramids we follow the path past l magnificent mausoleums, and grand | cathedrals, suggesting a combination of | all arts and sciences, but showing the domination of wealth and power, then the churches enter the list with an add ed element in the storm of democracy | and equality. and at last the cemetery with it's marble for poor and rich, tell ing, as has never been told before, of the fatherhood of God. of the brother hood of man, of the control of mind over matter, of the ushering in of the era of peace and good will. Sepulchre tells the story of civilization
 N. F. Wilder of Hartford read a very paper Tuesday entitled fin duence of Modern Cemeteries"
 He spoke as follows
 MIR. WILDER'S PAPER.
 Influence is so broad in it's scope and SO unlimtable in its power that it is almost, if not quite beyond the mind If ordinary man to comprehend it in ts fullness. It is an unseen power. It moves by an invisible, moral, influential, power both in the visible ind invisible; a something that carries IS along, we cannot tell exactly why or now. It is felt and goes out through community like the wind. It's un- imitedness we cannot see or under { tand. ( I've are all well aware that ceme- cry, be it modern or ancient, is place where all in a civilized land at some | ilne in their short lives are called to l -isit, and as a rule the mind at such ' imes is in state to be easily impress I d or influenced Mature, herself, is not modern, but nClenC, so we CdU HdFQly give nature redit for many of the beautiful infu- nces that are impressed upon us and arried with us as we go through and orth from one of our modern cemetery rounds. , We have said that nature is ancient. he arrangement and layout of ceme- cry grounds in these days are modern low if that be 60 there must be a f ause, and we must search for it if we |. ould know from whence this influence :, omes. May we not think and believe U nat the superintendent is the main Il over that creates this influence by his bor and advice. We can readily per I, live that nature may have done her :, erk Very lavishly in some grounds, so lat the superintendent has received , .eat assistance and influence from her a , help in his work, what proves to be IT ,me of the beautiful forms and deco- Ltions that nature herself used in her lornments to influence with. II "In these modern times, when the re- tl lirements are very great and human te iture is put to severe tests, the super .. tendent of a modern cemetery, to keep 'e abreast of the times, should and must n' a man of more than ordinary ability his line 10 be the infiuencer and lead