.i wf ' r MUMfcr''M-' w J4.1 V -.' THE RED CLOUD CHIEF, RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1894. i I , r r M ! !. I $ '- IV- w te ;i .1. to, it Bfc :AT ?'? Ifc 6r ft ft j"!. the resurrection; ftCV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON "EASTER IN GREENWOOD." Th. dreat Tabernacle Thronged The I'ul pit Alnott Hidden Willi Flowert-Tlie Otnal Beantirul and Unique SenaoB. Brooklyn' Famed Centaury. Brooklyn, March 25. Tho Euter services in the Tabernacle today were Attended by immense audiences. Beau tiful floral decorations almost hid the pnipit rrotn view, ana tne great organ gave forth its most rapturous strains in honor of tho day. In the forenoon Key. Dr. Talmago delivered an eloquent ser mon on "Easter In Greenwood," the text being taken from Genesis xxiii, 17, 18, "And the field of Hebron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was there in, and all tho trees that were in tho field, that were in all the borders round about, were mado sure nnto Abraham." Here is tho first cemetery overlaid out. Machpelah was its name. It was an arbo rescent beauty, whore the wound of death was bandaged with foliage. Abra ham, a rich man, not being ablo to bribe the king of terrors, proposes hero, as far as possible, to cover up tho ravages. He had no doubt previously noticed this region, and now that Sarah, his wifo, had died that remarkable person who, at 00 yean of age, had born to her the son Isaac, and who now, after sho had reached 127 years, had expired Abra ham is negotiating for a family plot for her last slumber. Ephron owned this real ostato, and after, in mock sympathy for Abraham, refusing to tako anything for it, now sticks on a big price 400 shokels of sll yer. Tho comctcry lot is paid for, and the transfer mado in tho presence of wit nesses in a publio place, for thero were no deeds and no halls of record in thoso early times. Then in a cavern of lime stono rock Abraham put Sarah, and a fow years after himself followed, and then Isaac and Rebckah, and thon Jacob and Leah. Embowered, picturcsquo and memorablo Machpelahl That "God's acre" dedicated by Abraham has been the mother of innumerable mortuary ob servances. Tho necropolis of overy clvi llxed land has vied with its metropolis. BEAUTIFUL C1T1K8 OF TUB DEAP. Tho most beautiful hills of Europo out side the great cities aro covered with obelisk and funeral vase and arched gateways and columns and parterres in honor of tho inhumatcd. Tho Annlan way of Rorao was bordered by sepulchral commemorations. For this purpose Pisa has its arcades of marble sculptured into excellent bas-reliefs and tho features of dear faces that have vanished. Genoa has its terraces cut into tombs, and Con stantinople covers with cyprus tho silent habitations, and Paris has its Pcro la Cliaiso, on whoso heights rest Bakao and David and Marshal Noy and Cu rler and La Placo and Molioro and n nighty group of warriors and poets and painters and musicians. In all foreign nations utmost gonius on all sides Is ex pended in tho work of interment, mum mification and incineration. Our own country consents to be second to nono in respect to tho lifeless body. Every city and town and neighborhood of any intelligence or virtuo has not many miles, nway its sacred inclosuro, whero affection has engaged sculptor's chlsol and florist's spado and artificer in motals. Our own city has shown its religion as well as its nrt in tho manner which it holds tho memory of thoso who have passed forever away by its Cypress Hills, and its Evcrgroons, nud its Calvary aud Holy Cross and Friends' cemeteries. All tho world knows of our Green wood, with now nbout 270.000 inhabit ants sleeping among tho hills that over look tho sea, nnd by lakes embosomed in an Eden of flowers, our American West minster nbbey, nn Acropolis of mortuary architecture, a Pantheon of mighty ones ascended, elegies in stono, Iliads in mar bio, 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. TUB MIOIITY BLKEl'KKa. Among the preachers of tho gospel, Bethuno and Thomas Do Witt and Bish op Janes and Tyng aud Abeel, the mis sionary, and Bcecher and Buddington, and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs and Chapin, and Noah Scheuck and Sam uel Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the renowned GotUchalk nnd tho holy Thom as Hastings. Among philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaoo T. Hopper, and Lucrotia Mott aud Isabella Graham, and Henry Bergh, the npostlo of mercy to the bruto creation. Among tho lltteratl, the wuys auco ana I'Hobuo James K. Paulding and John G. Saxo. Among journalists, Bcnnott and Raymond and Greeley. Among scientists, Ormsby Mitchell, warrior ns well as astronomer and lovingly called by his soldiors "Old Stars;" Professor Proctor and tho Dra pers splendid mon, as I well know, one of thorn my teacher, tho other my class innto. Among inventors Ellas Howe, who through tho sewing machino did moro to alloviuto tho tolls of womanhood than any man that over lived, nnd Professor Morse, who gavo us magnetic telegraphy, the former doing his work with tho needle, tho latter with tho thunderbolt. Among physicians and Burgeons Joseph O. HutchinBou and Marlon Kims and Dr. Valentine Mott, with tho following cpl tapli, which he ordered cut in honor of Christian religion: "My implicit faith and' hope is in a merciful Redeemer, -who is tho resurrection and the life. Amen nnd Amen." This is our Ameri can Machpelah, us sacred to us as tho Machj)clnh in Caiman, of which Jacob uttered that pastoral poem in oue verso: "TJierd thoy buried Abraham und Sa rah, hia wife; thero they buried Isaac and Rebckub, his wife, and there I buried Leuh." THE FAMILY OV FLOWMS. At this Easter service I ask nnd an swer what may seem a novel question, but it will be found, before I get through, a practical aud usoful and tre mendous question, What will resurrec tion day do for tho cemeteries? First, I remark, it wl 1 be their supernal beauti ficatlon. At certain seasons it is cus tomary in nil lands to strew flowers orei the mounds of tho departed. It mny have been suggested by tho fact that Christ's tomb was in n garden. And when I say garden I do not mean a gar den of thoso latitudes. Tho lato frosts of spring and tho early frosts of autumn are so near each othor that thero are only a fow months of flowers in tho fiold. All the flowers wo seo today had to be petted and coaxed and put under shelter, or thoy would not have bloomed at all. They are tho children of tho conservato ries. But at this season and through tho most of tho year tho Holy Land is all nbltifih with floral onulcuco. You And all tho royal family of flow ers thero, some that you supposed indig enous to tho far north, nnd others indig enous to tho far south tho daisy and hyacinth, crocus and anemono, tulip and water lily, geranium and ranunculus, mlgnonetto nnd sweet marjoram. In the collego at Beirut you may seo Dr. Post's collection of about 1,600 kinds of Holy Land flowers, whtlo among trees aro tho oaks of frozen climes, and the tamarisk of tho tropics, walnut and wil low, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder, plno and sycamore If such floral and botanical beauties nro tho wild growths of tho fiold, think of wlmtu garden must bo in Pnlestinol And in such a garden Jesus Christ slept after, on tho soldier's spear, his last drop of blood had coagu lated. And then seo how nppropriato that all our ccmotorlcs should bo floral ized nnd treo shaded. In Juno Green wood is Brooklyn's garden. Tim IinSUUKECTION IDEA. "Well, then," you say, "how can you mako out that tho resurrection day will beautify tho cemeteries? Will it not lcavo them n plowed up ground? On that day thero will bo an earthquake, and will not this split tho polished Aber deen granlto ns well as tho plain slab that can afford but two words 'Our Mary or 'Our Charley?'" Well, I will tell yon how resurrection day will beau tify all tho cemotcries. It will bo by bringing up the faces that were tons onco, nnd in our memories aro to us now, moro beautiful than any cnlla lily, and tho forms that aro to us moro grace ful than any willow by tho waters. Can you think of anything moro beautiful than tho renppcarunco of thoso from whom wo hnvo been parted? I do not enro which way tho treo falls in tho blast of tho judgment hurricane, or if tho plowshnro that day shall turn under tho last roso leaf and tho last china aster, if out of tho broken sod shnll como tho bod ies of our loved ones not damaged, but irrnuiaieu. Tho idea of tho resurrection gctseasicr to understand ns I hear tho phonograph unroll somo voico that talked into it a year ago, just before our friend's decease. You touch tho lover, nnd then como forth tho very tones, tho very eong of the per son that breathed into it onco, but is now departed. If a man enn do that, cannot Almighty God, without half try ing, return tho voico of your departed? And if ho enn return tho voico, why not tho lips, and tho tongue, aud tho throat that fashioned tho voice? And if tho lips, and tho tongue, and tho throat, why not tho bruin that suggested tho words? And if tho brnin, why not tho nerves, of which tho brain is tho Headquarters? And if ho can return tho nerves, why not tho muscles, which aro less ingenious? And If tho muscles, why not tho bones, thnt nro less wonderful? And if tho voico, aud tho brain, aud tho muscles, nnd the bones, why not tho entire body? If mnn can do tho phonograph, God can do tho resurrection. A WONDURFUL FACT. Will it bo tho Bame body that in tho last day shall bo reanimated? Yes, but infinitely improved. Our bodies chnngo every seven yenrs, and yet In ono senso it is tho same body. On my wrist and tho second finger of my right hand thero is a scur. I mado that at 13 yours of nge, when, disgusted at tho prcsenco of two warts, I took a rcdhot iron nnd burned thorn off and burned them out. Since thon my body has chnnged nt least a half dozen times, but thoso scars provo it is tho same body. Wo never loso our identity. If God can and docs sometimes rebuild a man five, six, ten times in this world, is it mysterlouH that ho can rebuild him onco moro und thnt in the resurrection? If ho can do it 10 times, I think ho enn do it 11 times. Then look nt tho 17 year locusts. For 17 years gone, at tho end of 17 years thoy appear, and by rubbing tho hind leg against tho wing mnko thut rattle nt which all tho husbandmen nnd vino dressers tremblo ns tho inccctilo ho3t tnkos up tho march of devastation. Res urrection every 17 years n wonderful fact I Another consideration makes tho idea of resurrection easier. God mado Adam. Ho was not fashioned after any model. Thero had never becnu human organism, nnd so thero was nothing to copy. At tho first attempt God mado n perfect man. Ho mndo him out of tho dust of tho earth. If out of ordinnrydust of tho earth und without n model God could mnko a perfect man, surely out of tho extraordinary dust of mortal body aud with millions of models God can mnko each ono of ns n perfect being in tho res urrection. Surely tho Intt undertaking would not bo greater than tho first. Seo tho gosiicl nlgcbra. Ordinary dnst minus a model equals n porfect man. Extrnor diuury dust nud plus n modol cqunls a resurrection body. Mysteries nbout It? Oh, yes. Thnt is ono reason why I bo llovo it. It would not bo much of a God who could do tilings only us far us I can understand, Mysteries? Oh, yes. But no more about tho resurrection of your body thau about its present existence. A THtUU WOULD. I will explain to you tho hi6t mystery of tho resurrection and mako it ns plain to you us thnt two mid two mako four if you will tell mo how your mind, which is entirely Independent of your body, can uct upon your body m that at your will your eyes open, or your foot walks, or your hand is extended. Sol find noth ing in tho Blblo statement concerning tho resurrection that slaggero mo for a uiuuicm. ah uouwu clear from mv wind, I eay that tho cemeteries, how ever beautiful now, will bo moro beauti ful when tho bodies of our loved onci come up in tho morning of tho resurrec tion. They will como iu improved condition They will come up rested. Tho most ol them lay down at tho last very tired How often yon have heard them say, ") am so tired 1" Tho fact is, it is a tired world. If I should go through this au dience and go round tho world, I could not find a person in any style of lifo ig norant of tho sensation of fatigue. I do not bcliovo thero aro 60 persons it this audienco who aro not tired. Youi head is tired, or your back is tired, oi your foot is tired, or your brain is tired, or your nerves aro tired. Long jonrney Ing or business application or bereave ment or sickness has put on you heavj weights. So tho vast majority of thos who wont out of this world went out fa tigued. About the poorest placo to rest in is this world. Its atmosphere, itssur roundlngs and oven its hilarities are ex hausting. So God stops our earthly lift and mercifully closos the oyes, and mor especially gives quiescence to tho luno and heart, that have not hod 10 minutes rest from tho first respiration and tht first beat. If a drummer boy wero compelled in the army to bent his drum for 24 houn without stopping, his officer would bf court mnrtialcd for cruelty. If tho drum mer boy should bo commanded to beat his drum for a week without coasing, day and night, ho would dio In attempt ing it. But under your vestment is s poor henrt that began its drumbeat foi the march of lifo 80 or 40 or CO or 8C years ago, and it has had no furlough by day or night, nnd whether in consclouj or comatoso stato it went right on, for il it had stopped soven seconds your life would havo closed. And your heart will keep going until somo timo after you! spirit has flown, for tho nuscnltntorsayi that after tho last expiration of lung and tho last throb of pulso, and after th spirit is released, tho heart keeps on beat ing for a timo. What a mercy, then, il is that tho gravo is tho placo whero thai wondrous raachlnory of vcntrlclo and ar tery can haltt DUST OF THE EARTH. Under tho healthful chemistry of the Boil all tho wear and tear of ncrvo and musclo nnd bone will bo subtracted, and thnt bath of good fresh clean soil will wush off tho last ache, and then some of the satno stylo of dust out of which tho body of Adam was constructed may bo Infused into tho resurrection body. How can tho bodies of tho humun rnco, which have had no replenishment from tho dust sinco tho timo of Adnm in paradise, get any recuperation from tho storehouse from which ho was constructed without our going back into tho dust? Thnt orig inal lifo giving material having been added to the body as it onco was, and all tho defects loft behind, what a body will bo the resurrection body! And will not hundreds of thousands of such appearing abovo theGowanus heights make Green wood moro beautiful than any June morning after a shower? Tho dust of tho earth being the original mntorlal for the fashioning of tho first human being, wo havo to go back to tho samo placo to get a perfect body. Factories nro npt to bo rough places, and thoso who toil in them havo their garments grimy nnd their hands smutch ed. But who cares for that when thoy turn out for us beautiful musical instru ments or oxquisito upholstery? What though tho gravo is a rough place it is a resurrection body manufactory, and irom it suau como tiio radiant nnd ro splendent forms of our friends on the brightest moruiug tho world over saw. You put into n factory cotton, nnd it comes out npparcl. Yon put Into a fac tory lumber and lead, and thoy come out pianos ana organs. And bo into the fnc tory of the gravo you put in pneumonias and consumptions, nnd thoy como out health. Yon put in groans, and they como out halleluiahs. For us, on the final day, tho most attractlvo places will not bo tho parks, or tho gardons, or the palaces, but tho cemeteries. TUB IT.RFECT BODY. Wo are not told in whnt season that day will como. If it should bo winter, thoso who come up will bo more lustrous than the snow that covered them. If in tho autumn, thoso who como up will bo moro gorgeons thun tho woods nfter tho frosts had penciled them. If in thospring, tho bloom on which thoy trend will be dull compared with tho rubicund of thoir cheeks. Oh, tho perfect resurrec tion body I Almost everybody has somo defectivo spot In his physical constitu tion n dull ear, or a dim oyo, or a rhcu matlo foot, or a neuralgic brow, or a twisted muscle, or a weak sldo, or au in flamed tonsil, or somo point at which tho east wind or a season of overwork as saults him. But tho resurrection body shall bo without ono weak spot, and nil that tho doctors and nurses and apothecaries of earth will thereafter havo to do will be to rest without interruption nfter tho broken nights of their earthly existence Not only will that day bo tho beautified tion of well kept cemeteries, but somo of tho graveyards that have been neg lected and been tho pasture ground for cattle and rooting places for swiuo will for tho first timo havo attractiveness given thoin. It whs a shame that in that place un grateful generations planted no trees, aud twisted no garlands, and sculptured no marble for their Christian aucestry. But ou tho day of which I speak tho res urrected shall make the place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the church, where thoy slumbered among nettles and mullein stalks and thistles and slabs aslant, they shall arise with a glory that shall flush the win dows of the village church, and by the boll tower that used to call them to wor ship, and above the old spire besido which their prayers formerly ascended. What triumphal procession nover did for n Etrcet, what an oratorio nover did for nu academy , whot an orator never did for a brilliant auditory, what ol. llsk never did for a kincr. resurrection mom will do for all the cemeteries. ThisEustsr tells us that in Christ's resurrection our resurrection, if we are his, and tho rstrarrtctio e! ail the tioua I dead, is assured, for ho was "tho first fruits of them that slept." Ronan says ho did not rlso, but C80 witnesses, CO of them Christ's enemies, say ho did rise, for thoy saw him nfter ho had risen. If ho did not rise, how didCOnrmed soldiers let him get away? Surely CO living sol dicrs ought to bo nblo to keep ono dead man. Blessed bo Godl He did get nway. TUB KECOONITIONB. After his rosurrcction Mary Mogda lone saw him. Cleopas saw him. Ten disciples in nn upper room nt Jerusalem saw him. On a mountain tho 11 saw him. Fivo hundred at onco saw him. Professor Ernest Renan, who did not see him, will excuse us for taking the testimony of the 080 who did see him. Yes, yes, ho got away. And that makes mo sure that our departed loved onca and wo ourselves shall get away. Freed himself from the shackles of clod, ho it not going to leave us and ours in the lurch. Thero will bo no doorknob on the in side of our family sopulcher, for wo can not como out of ourselves, but thero is a doorknob on tho outside, nnd that Jesut shall lay hold of, and, opening, will says "Good morning! You havo slopt long enough! Arisol Arlsol" And then whnt flutter of wings, nnd what flashing of rekindled oyes, and what glndsomo msh ing across tho family lot, with cries of. "Father, is that you?" "Mother, is that you?" "My darling, is thnt your "How you nil hnvo changed I Tho cough gone, tho croup gone, the consumption gone, tho paralysis gone, tho wenriness gone. Como, lot us ascend together! Tho oldor ones first, tho younger onesucxtl Quick, now, get into Unci Tho skyward pro cession has nl ready started! Steer now by that embankment of cloud for the nearest gatel" . And, as wo ascend, on ono 6ldo the enrth gets smaller until it is no larger than a mountain, nnd smaller until it is no larger than n palace, and smaller un til it is no larger than a Bhlp, and small er until it is no larger than a wheel, and smaller until it is no larger than a speck. FAREWELL AND HAIL. Farewell, dissolving earth! But on tho other side, as we rise, heaven at first appears no larger than your hand. And nearer it looks liko a chariot, and nearer it looks liko a throne, nnd nenrer it looks liko a star, nnd nearer it looks liko a sun, nnd nearor it looks liko a universe. Hail, scoptcrs that shall always wave! nail, anthems thut shall always roll! Hail, companionships nover again to purtl Thnt is what resurrection day will do for all tho cemeteries and gravoynrds from tho Mnchpolah that was opened by Father Abraham in Hebron to tho Mach pelah yesterday consecrated. Aud that makes Lndy Huntington's immortal rhythm most npposito: When thou, injr righteous Judge, ahalt como To tako thy rnnsomcc people homo, Bliall I among them stand? Shall such a worthless worm as I, Who somotimes am afraid to die, Uo found at thy right hand? Among thy saints let mo bo found, Whenr'cr th' archangel's trump shall sound, To seo thy smiling face Then loudot of tho throng I'll sing While heaven's resounding arches ring With shouts of sovereign grace. Washing the Ilands. Washing tho hands in water to which ammonia has been added is a very com mon recotniuonuatlon. This would be won enough, perhaps, if tho supplemen tary processes wero correctly given, but tho direction is eitnply for putting n lit tle of this substanco into tho water in which the hands aro washed. Somebodv follows these directions nnd finds the hands rough nnd disagreeable almost be yond endurance Somo day tho victim of this foolish practico makes up her mind that maybe ammonia doesn't ngree with her and forthwith discontinues its use. Tho fact is that ammonia is absolutely unfit for tho toilet unless its effects nre carefully removed by somo suitable agont. It is strongly alkalino and de stroys tho natural oil on and near the surface of tho skin, leaving it rough, crackly and with a decided tendency to chap and wrinklo. After tho uso of soap of any Bort or any alkalino preparation tho hands should be thoroughly washed in clean water and rubbed with some soothing compound, such as glycerin and rosownter, a bit of diluted honey, almond oil or somo liko substance. This restores tho softness of the skin and pre vents chapping. Good Housekeeping. The Pioneer. So much has been heard of Mary Wollstonecraft as a herald of woman's equality that most pcoplo havo forgotten mo naino oi Mary Astell, a contempo rary of Defoo's, who lived a hundred years beforo Mary Wollstonecraft, and who was the first woman who pleaded for "woman's equality of education and social position." If it wero a daring thing to do in the eighteenth century, it was surely n much more daring thing to do in tho seventeenth, nnd, though Mary Astell may be said to havo "hedged" a littlo under tho wrath of hor contem poraries, yot to her is tho credit of hav ing been tho first to urgo tho necessity of giving woman tho benefits of a thor ough educntlon. Other pioneers thero havo been nt a later dato who have suf fered slander nnd persecution in tho woman's cause, and whoso work has been ignored nnd Bet asido by tho moro noisy crown wno now enjoy tho bonefits which tho pioneers' sufferings purchased. Humanitarian. Flowers anil Blnglng. Concerning n paragraph published on tho alleged weakening influences of flow ers, especially violets, upon tho voices of singers, a correspondent writes thnt an evidence in favor of tho assertion wab had nt a uiatineo in Now York of tho opera soason. A very largo and beauti ful bunch of violets was handed to Nor dlca, who, with scant ceremony, thrust them instantly away from hor, holding them behind her ns bIio backed off the stago und reappearing to bow ugaln with out mom. i no incident was sufficiently marked to attract tho notlco of nt least oue person and attests the assertion that singers havo reason to dread the effect of the perfume of violets while staging wfc-w York Tim MRS,. FASHIONABLE MILLINER Keeps the finest stock of goods.to be seen in the valley nt REASONABLE PRICES. Hhe wli. be pleased to havhcd.e, eat. .examine lrnow stock .,. is not to ho Experience Gives Her Mnny Advantages In the tradelwhloh the proposes giving to her customers. Tall nnd seo her. Noon Hiiw.k.nwi ia..h F. V. 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