The Penn's Grove record., 1900-04-20
toward Greenwood by the President Of the

atone at the grave Of Charles Sumner for
the ignomtnlous resolutions with which
her Legislature denounced the living
Senator. Do you think that the tomb at
Springfield can pay for Booths bullet2
Oh, do justice to the llvingl All the JUS
tice you do them you must do this side the
gates Of tho Metropolis. They cannot wake
up to coun the number OF carriages at the
obsequfes or to notice the polish of the
Aberdeen granite or to read epitaphal com.
memoration. Gentleman's mausoleum 10
the suburbs OF Jerusalem cannot pay fol
Bethlehem manager and Calvarean cross
and Pilates ruf1an judiciary, Post NOR.
tenn honors cannot atone for ante-mortem
ignominies.
Again, standing In this garden OF the
sepulcher, / I'm impressed with the fact
that floral and arborescent decorations are
appropriate for the place of the dead. We
are glad that among flowers and sculptural
adornments Christ spent the short time OF
His Illumination.
I cannot understand what I sometimes
see in the newspapers where the ~obsequies
are announced and the friends say In con.
nection with II, s'Send no flowers" Rather,
II the means allow say IL the means
allow-strew the casket with flowers, the
hearsa with flowers, the grave with flowers,
Put them on the brow-lt will suggest
coronation; in their hand-it will mean
victory.
Christ was buried In a garden. Flowers
mean resurrection. Death Is sad enough
anyhow. Let conservatory md arboretum
contribute to it's alienation. The harebelI
will ring the victory; the passion flower
will express the sympathy; the daffodil
will kindle its lamp and illume the dark
ness. The cluster OF asters will be the
constellation. Your little child loved
flowers when she wa living. Put them In
hos honA ,naxr that oho . - foukh ~
more and pluck them for herself. On sun
shiny days take a fresh garland and put It
over the still heart.
Brooklyn has no grander glory than its
Greenwood, nor Boston than its Mount Au.
burn, nor Philadelphia than it's Laurel
Hill, nor Cincinnati than Its Spring Grove,
nor San Francisco than IT'S Lone Mountain.
But what shall we say to those country
g~raveyards with the vines broken down
and the slab aslant and the mound caved
In andthe grass q pasture ground for the
sections cattle? Indeed, were your father
and mother of SO little worth that you can.
not afford to take care OF their ashes? Some
day turn out all hands and straighten the
slab and bank up the mound and cut away
the weeds and plant the shrubs and Aow
ers.
Some day you will want to lie down tc
FOUR last slumber. You cannot expect any
respect for your bones If you have no de
ference for the bones OF your ancestry. D
you think these relics are OF M fmpor-
lance? You will see OF how much impor-
lance they are in the day when the arch.
angel takes out his trumpet. Turn all
your cemeteries into gardens.
Again, standing In this garden OF the
new sepulcher, I am impressed with the
dignity Of private and unpreteEding o bse-
Quies.
Joseph vas mourner, sexton, liveryman
had entire charge of everything. Only
four people at the burial of the King OF the
Universal Oh. let this be consolatory to
those who through lack of means OF
through lack OF acquaintance have but
little demonstration Of grief at the graves
of their loved ones. Long line OF glitter.
ing equipage, two rows OF silver handles,
casket OF richest wood, pallbearers gloved
int scarfed, are not necessary. II there
be six at the grave, Christ looks down from
heaven and remembers that Is two more
than were at His obsequies.
Not recognizing this idea, how many
small properties are scattered and widow
hood and orphanage go forth into cold
charityl The departed left a small prop.
erty, which would have been enough Il
| keep the family together until they could
take care Of themselves, but the funeral
expenses absorbed everything. That wen
for Grape which ought to have gone fol
| bread. A man Of moderate means car
| hardly afford to die in any of our greai
cities. by all means, do honor to the de-
parted. but do not consider funeral pageant
as necessary. No one was ever more Low
ingly and tenderly put away to sepulchel
han Christ our Lord, but there were only
four people IN the procession.
Again, standing in this garden with q
new sepulcher, I I'm impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead down.
Seal of s~anhedrin, company OF soldiers
from the tower Of Antonio, floor OF rock,
roof of rock, walls Of rock, door OF rock,
cannot keep Christ in the crypts. Come
out and come up He must. Come out and
come up He did. Prelguration. FRS,
Is as We go down into the dust, just SO
certainly we will come up again. Though
| all thegranite of the mountains were piled
on us We will rise. Though buried annie
the corals OF the deepest cavern OF the
Atlantic Oceal, we will come to the sur.
face.
With these eyes we may not look into
the face OF the MONDAY sun, but We shall
have stronger vision, because the tamesi
thing in the land to which we 90 will b
brighter than the sun. We shall have
bodies with the speed OF the lightning
Our bodies improved, energtzed, sWfftened
Enthusiastically, Immortality. Th,
door OF the grave taken on its hinges an(
flung fiat into the dust.
Oh, my brethren, death and the gray,
are not so much as they used to be; fol
while wandering In this garden with thu
new sepulcher I find that the vines ani
flowers of the garden have completely GOV
cred up the tomb. Instead of one garden
there are four gardens, opening into eaci
o~ther--9arden OF Eden, garden OF the
worlds sepulcher,. garden OF the earth
regeneration, garden OF heaven. Foul
gardens. Bloom, O earthi Bloom.
heaven! Oh. my friends, wake up to glad
ness OF this Easter morning! This day, |
I Interpret 1t right, means joy-it means
peace with heaven, and 1t means peace witt
all the world.
Oh, bring more fowersl Wreathe then
around the brazen throat Of the cannon
plant them In the desert, that It may bios
som like the rose; braid them into tn,
name OF the returned war charger. NJ
more red dahlias Of human blood. Civ,
US white lilies OF peace. All around thu
earth strew Easter flowers. And soon thu
rough voyage Of the church militant viii
be ended, and she will sail up the heavenly
harbor, scared with many q conflict, bul
the flags of triumph floating from her top
gallants. ALI heaven will come out K
greet her into port, and with q long re
yerberating STOUT of welcome will say
ssTnere she comes up the bay, the glorious
old ship Zion! After tempestuous voyage
she drops anchor within the veil.n
1Nry,v q raant ovrc