The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-12-04
ADDRESS DELIVERED AT
HOLLYWOOD DEDICATION
Beautiful Grafton by Dedicatory Speaker at the
Opening Of the Cemetery Which Now Con-
tains the Ashes of So Many Iuustrious
Confederates---Th The History of Burial
Grounds Exquisitely Told--The
Ancient Customs Of the
World---A Chaste and
Classical Address
Classical Address.

the Creeks. Ee1ccted for their burial
places the most lovely spots of nature,
surrounded by tho most delightful
ucenerJ. enbowered In shady groves.
in Charming ghrubbery. odorous flow
crs and murmuring fountains. or con
cealed amid the secluded recesses of
the mountains. Even the Turks. back
ward though they 30 In civilization,
select for their grayeyards rural spots,
and embelliEh them with avergreens.
1T Is said that the planting of trees
about the graves OF their kindred Is
considered by them q religious duty.
and that "onc OF tho most Interesting
objects in the enyirono OF Cons.anti-
nople is the buryins- ground OF "Scu-
tart" which presents the appearance
Of "a vast fores. of majestic trees,"
and is general resort OF tho inhab-
itants OF the imperial city during tho
1uitry months of the summer In Eng
land and on the Continent there arc
many cemeteries beautifully adorned
with forest trees and lowering shrubs.
In our own country tho custom OF
placing graveyards amid tho dust and
glare OF cities. entirely destitute of
ornament. exposed 10 public gaze and
surrounded by a thousand distracting
associations, may be In keeping with
utllitarian age and a money-loving
spirit, but ls far from being conso-
nant with that lioerality and good
taste which arc the Distinguishing
characteristics os our own community.
Eut this peculiar and repulsive inno-
walton upon ancient and general Gus
tom ts now giving way even in those
portions Of our country which are emf
neHtiy DISTINGUISHED by their CONNER
c!al and practical spirit Thus we have
Mount Auburn" Boston; Greenwood 7.
New York: Laurel HIM. Philadelphia;
Spring Grove Cincinnati: Green
Mount" Baltimore; Mount Hone"
Rochester. all beautiful rural cemeter-
leg. TO which list may this day be
added. one not often surpassed in
natural charms. Hollywood. place OF
sleep" for our own dead.
In the remarks thus made I have adj
Vanced aanction from tho most an
Gent and universal customs of man
kind for the provision for the dead
which has here been made both as
1t respects It's location and the adorn-
nent5 OF nature and art. Considera-
tons equally satisfactory may be adj
duced from the Instincts and feelings
OF our nature. and from the high moral
purposes which arc subserved by tho
establishment Of such cemeteries.
Bury me not. pray thee sald tho
patriarch Jacob. bury mo not In
Egypt; but will llo with my fathers.
And thou shalt carry me out OF Egypt
and bury me In their buryins place.
There they buried Abraham and Sarah,
his wife; thore they buried Isaac and
Rebeoca, his wife; and there I buried
Leah" Can anything DO moro touch
insly beautiful or moro strongly eS-
pressive OF the feelings of the human
heart at all times and in all ages?
alethinks I SEQ the venerable patriarch,
"his eyes dim for age SO that he
could not recognize HIS own sons as
they werc gathered about the dying
bed upon which he Eat. The past,
with all its sorrows, has swept through
his mind The future Elories OF Judah
are beaming upon his spirit, and
through the dark clouds of time tho
sceptre OF Shiloh meets tho undlmmed
vision OF his soul. Joseph Is there
Joseph who was lost, but was found
again; who was dead. but wen alive
Joseph, that darling son. who from
feeding focks in Shechem, had become
second only to Pharaoh In the realm
OF Egypt. And now, surrounded by
kingly power and by his living chill
tdren, surely tbs old patriarch might
have been content to have found in sts
adopted country his last resting place.
But no! Amid tho grandeur and tina
power of Egypt, his heart went back
to that land whose last associations
were Of sorrow and OF famine. With
Joseph and Benjamin In his eye, tho
homo Of his youth and the graves OF
his fathers were IN his heart. "BurY
me not In Egypt Bury mo whore
they buried Abraham and Sarah, Isaac
and Rebecca, and whore buried Leah!
Thousands OF years havc passed
away since those words we're uttered.
but that human heart which. amid all
,climes and all ages. remains nnchnng-
ed. speaks to-day the Same language
with the dying patriarch. There Ia
not o. living man who would not die like
Jacob, surrounded by his friends, bless
Ing and being blessed; whose hands
would not lll!ger In love upon tla head
OF some Joseph who has been the pride
and jewel of hia soul: whose arms
would not clasp In death the faithful
wife, or. even Il sho had preceded
him. loved or unloyed. totho grave,
whose heart would not yearn over Leah
in her tomb; no, not one who would
not desire to sleep In death by the sido
iof the old father, who had been 20
him an isaac and to slumher with the
old mother, who had been to him o.
Rebecca as in those days OF her beauty
and her youth. when she held him, All
unconscious child, to her BOSOM. and
.hallowed and guarded his slunbers
with the pure, deep, undylng fervor
Of a mother's love, 0
Itils the Instructive desire OF every
human breast to be placed In death
near those we love, and to he relneM-
.bered by those who survive, i'll 1t is q
ieonsolatory Thought anlid tho sad rs-
fleet Ions which crowd llpon the diving