The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-12-14
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
DR.. Talmage on the Massacre of
Christians at Cawnpore.
A City Upon Whose Desolated Area Have
Risen Lasting Monuments to Martyrs
Now Citadel for Christ's
Gospel.


sermons through the press Rev. I. De
Witt Talmage recently took for hi:
subject THE City of Blood" the text
selected being Psalms cxli., Z: ''Oul
bones are scattered at the graves
mouth, as when one cutteth and cleav
eth wood upon the earth. But mine
eyes are unto Thee. o God the Lord. .
Following is the sermon:
Though you may read this text from
the Bible, read it as cut by chisel into
the pedestal of cross beneath which
lie many of the massacred at Gavin
pore. India. To show you what Hin
dooism and Mohammedanism really
are, where they have full swing. and
not as they represent themselves in
parliament of Religions" and to
demonstrate to what extent OF
cruelty and abomination human nature
may go when fully let loose, and to
illustrate the hardening process of SIM
and to remind you how our glorious
Christianity may utter its triumph over
death and the grave, / preach this my
second sermon in the Round the
World series, and / shall speak OF
The City of Blood" or Cawnpore,
India.
Two hours and ten minutes after its
occurrence. Joseph Lee, of the Shrop-
shire regiment of foot, rode in upon
the Cawnpore massacre. He was the
first man | met at Cawnpore. | wanted
to hear the story from some one who
had been here in 1857, and with his
own eyes gazed upon the slaughtered
heaps of humanity. l could hardly
wait until the horses had been put up
to the carriage, and Mr.. Lee with us.
started for the scene, the story of
which makes tame in contrast all
ModOc and Choctaw butcheries.
1t seems that all the worst passions
of the century were to be impersonated
by one man. and he Mana Sahib, and
our escort at Cawnpore, Joseph Lee,
knew the man personally. Unfortu-
nately. there Is no correct picture of
Mana Sahib in existence. The pictures
of him published in the books of
Europe and America, and familiar to
us all. are an amusing mistake.
l said to our escort: Mr.. Lee.
was there any peculiarity in Mana
Sahib's appearance" The reply was:
Nothing very peculiar; he was dull,
lazy, cowardly, sensual man, brought
up to do nothing and wanted to con-
tinue on the same scale to do nothing"
From what Mr.. Lee told me, and all
can learn in India, Mana Sahib ordered
the massacre in that city from sheer
fnf I'D hn
throne and the English paid him annu-
ally pension of 100000. When the
father died the English government
declined to pay the same pension to
the son, Mana Sahib, but the poor fell
low was not in any way suffering from
lack of funds. His father left him $50
OOOin gold ornaments; $500, 90 in jewels;
$500. 600 in bonds, and other resources
amounting to at least 81, 100000. But
the poor young man was not satisfied,
and the Cawnpore massacre was his re-
venge.
Mr.. Lee explained all this to me by
the fact that Gen. Wheeler had mar
ried a native, and he naturally took
her story. and thought there was no
peril. But the time for the proclama-
tion from Mana Sahib had come, and
such document went forth as never
before had seen the light of day.
give only an extract:
LAS by the kindness of God, and the
good fortune of the Emperor, all the
Christians who were at Delhi. Poonah,
Sattara and other places, and even
those 5000 European soldiers who went
in disguise into the former city and
were discovered, are destroyed and
sent to hell by the piOus and sagacious
troops. who are firm to their religion
and as they have all been conquered
by the present government, and as no
trace of them is left in these places. it
is the duty of all the subjects and serv-
ants of the government to rejoice at
the delightful intelligence, and carry
on their respective work with comfort
and ease. As by the bounty of the
glorious Almighty and the enemy-des-
troying fortune of the emperor, the
yellow-faced and narrow-Ininded peo-
pie have been sent to hell. and Gavin
pore has been conquered, it is neces-
Sary that all the subjects, and land
owners and government servants
should be as obedient to the present
government as they have been to the
former one; that is the incumbent duty
OF all the peasants and landed pro-
prietors of every district to rejoice at
the thought that the Christians have
been sent to hell, and both the Hindoo
and Mohammedan religious have been
confirmed, and that they should, as
usual, be obedient to the authorities of
the government. and never suffer any
complaint against themselves to reach
to the ears of the higher authority"
Mr. Lee. what is this?'' / said to our
escort as the carriage halted by an en-
bankment Here" he said, lis the
entrenchment where the Christians of
Cawnpore took refuge" 1t is the re-
mains of a wall which at the time of
the mutiny was only 4 feet high, be-
hind which. with no shelter from the
sun, the heat of l3O degrees, 44O men
and 500 women and children dwelt
nearly a month. A handful of -four
and split peas was the daily ration, and
only two wells near by. the one in
which they buried their dead, because
they had no time TO bury them in the
earth. and the other well the focus on
which the artillery of the enemy
played, so that it was a choice between
death by thirst and death by bullet
or shell. Ten thousand yelling
Hindoos outsides this frail wall
and 1000 suffering, dying peo-
pie inside. In addition to the army
of the Hindoos and Moslems, an invisi-
BILE army of sickness swept upon them.
Why did not the heather dash down
those mud walls and the 10000 annihi-
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