Address Delivered at the Consecration of the Springfield Cemetery: September 5th, 1841Wood and Rupp, 1841 - 16 Seiten |
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beauti BORROWER FROM OVERDUE breast bright burial place Bury CHARGED AN OVERDUE consecrate dead death deserve dust dwelling dying emotions enterprise EXEMPT THE BORROWER faithful fathers feeling of respect formerly ran fountain friend departs funeral gone grave grew hear heard heart heaven Hebrew holy ground hope hour improve inspired labor laid land LAST DATE STAMPED lean Let me ask LIBRARY living meet memory midnight mortal frame mother mourner native natural feeling NON-RECEIPT OF OVERDUE OVERDUE FEE OVERDUE NOTICES patriarchs praise thee PRINTED BY WOOD promise race reason to believe refined refined till remains remem repose resort rest RETURNED sacred SEPTEMBER 5TH sepulchre solemn soon sorrow soul spreads SPRINGFIELD CEMETERY streams strength sunshine Surely taste and feeling terest thou thought tomb trees true taste vallies village voice wanderers weeping Whoever WIDENER BOOK DUE WILLIAM B. O. PEABODY WOOD AND RUPP
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Seite 8 - This should imply that the prince of whom Jerusalem was thus bereft, was acceptable to his people ; more acceptable than he who was to supply his place. The thing to be lamented was that he would return no more. It is true that for the little time Jehoahaz reigned, he did evil in the sight of the Lord...
Seite 16 - so number our days as to apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Seite 9 - ... was done by anchoring the affections of the children to the graves of their fathers. From the earliest ages, all who dwelt near to God took an interest in this subject, resolved that the body, which had once been the dwelling of the soul, should not, like common dust, be trodden under foot of men. When Jacob was dying in Egypt, he could not bear the thought of being laid to rest in the distance and solitude of a foreign .land. Joseph, too, bound his children by a promise, that his remains should...
Seite 8 - Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away: for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.
Seite 9 - But we do trace, in those early ages, the same taste which now begins to prevail among ourselves — the same desire to bring trees and flowers, to remove the dreariness of the place of death. When Abraham bought the fields of Machpelah for a Cemetery, he secured the right to all the trees that were in it, and all that grew on its borders. The sepulchre of our Saviour, too, was in a...
Seite 9 - ... place not distant from the city, and yet not so near, that the noise and business of the living should disturb the silence of the grave. Not anticipating that their Master would rise, they laid him in a place to which they might come in peace and loneliness, to meditate and...
Seite 5 - I should know that they did not deserve them. Indifference to these things is not natural to any good mind or heart. Nature says, "Bury me with my fathers." The feeling which nature dictates is, " that I may die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and my mother.
Seite 5 - It may be so — they may say so of themselves if they will. But if they say that they care not what becomes of the remains of their friends when they are gone, their hearts are not in the right place ; I should doubt if they had friends — I should know that they did not deserve them.
Seite 14 - ... this holy ground ; the aged, after years of labor and sorrow, will depart to this place in peace. The pale marbles will rise everywhere around us, telling of the dead, sometimes what they were, but still oftener what they ought to have been. We are here to day to consecrate these grounds. And we о consecrate them in the name of " Him that liveth, and was dead.
Seite 6 - Do you say that this feeling grows out of refinement ? that it springs from cultivation, not from nature ? To this I have a reply. The land on which we dwell was possessed...