The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-12-21
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Torture and Massacre Of Christians
at Cawnpore.
a City of Blood Upon Whose DesOlated
Area Have Arisen Lasting Monu-
ments to Martyrs - Now
Citadel of the Gospel.

of sermons through the press thi,
week. It's subject is: 1.-THE City o1
! Blood" being based on the text:
Our bones are scattered at the graves
mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth woot
| upon the earth. But mine eyes are unto Thee
o God the Lord.-Psalms cxlL, Z.
Though you may read this text from
the Bible, 1 read it as cut by chisel
into the pedestal of a cross beneath
which lie many of the massacred al
| Cawnpore, India. To show you what
| Hindooism and Mohammedanism real
ly 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 illus
trate the hardening process of sin, and
to remind you how our glorious Chris
! tianity may utter its triumph over
death and the grave, preach this my
| second sermon in the "Round the
World" series, and I shall speak of
1.-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. lie 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 Razed upon the slaughtered
heaps of humanity. / could hardly
wait until the horses were put up to
the carriage, and Mr.. Lee seated with
us, started for the scene, the story of
which makes tame in contrast all Mo-
doe and ChOctaw butcherieS.
It seems that all the worst passions
Of the century were to be impersona ted
by one man, and he, Mana Sahib, and
our escort at Cawnpore, Joseph Lee,
knew the man personally. Unfortun-
ately, there is no correct picture of
Mana Sahib IN existence. The pictures
of him published in the books of Eu-
rope and America, and familiar to US
all, are an amusing mistake. This is
the fact II regard to them: A lawyer
of England was Cd lied to India for the
purpose of defending tilt- Ease of ma
tive who had been charged with fraud.
The attorney came and so skillfully
managed the case of his, client that
the client paid him enormously for
his services, and he went back
to England taking with him a
picture of his Indian client. After a
while the mutiny in India broke out, a
Mana Sahib was mentioned as the
champion VILLAIN of the whole affair,
and the newspapers of England wanted
a picture of him and to interview some
one on Indian affairs who had recently
been in India. Among others the
journalists called upon this lawyer,
lately returned. The only picture he
had brought from India was a picture
Of his client, the man charged with
fraud. The attorney gave this picture
to the journals as a specimen of the
way the IIindoos dress, and forthwith
that picture was used, either by mis-
take or Intentionally, for Mana Sahib.
The English lawyer said he lived in
dread that his client would some
day see the use made of his picture,
and it was not until the death of his
HindoO client that the lawyer divulged
the facts. Perhaps it was never in
tended that the face of such demon
should be preserved amid human rec
O1dS' Stltu ~ Jul CoCOA L" Au1S ACCJ
was there any popularity 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 from
all ! could learn in India, Mana Sahib
ordered the massacre in that city from
sheer revenge. His father abdicated
the throne, and the English paid him
annually a pension of four hundred
thousand dollars. When the father
died the English government declined
to pay the same pension to the son,
Mana Sahib, but the poor fellow was
not in any way suffering from lack of
funds His father left him eighty thou
sand dollars in gold ornaments; five
hundred thousand dollars in jewels;
light hundred thousand dollars in
Oonds, and other resources amounting
10 at least fifteen hundred thousand
dollars. But the poor young man was
not satisfied, and the CawppOre mas
sacre was his revenge. Gen. Wheeler,
the Enrlishman who had command of
this city, although often warned, could
not see that the SepOys were planning
for his destruction, and that of all his
regiments, and all the Europeans in
CawnpOre.
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 a document went forth as never
before had seen the light of day. l
give only an extract:
''As by the kindness of God, and the
good fortune of the emperor, all the
Christians who were at Delhi, Poonah,
Sattarra and other places, and even
those five thousand European soldiers
who went in disguise into the former
cftv and were discoverd, are destroyed
and sent to hell by the pious and saga
cious troops, who are firm to their re-
ligion, and as they have all been con-
ouered by the present government, and
as no trace of them IS left IN
these places, it IS the duty Of
all the subjects and servants of the
to rejoice at the delight
full intelligence, and carry on their re-
spective work with comfort and ease.
AS by the bounty of the glorious Al
mighty and the enemy-destroying for
tune Of the emperor. the yellow-faeed
and narrow-minded people have been
sent 20 hell, and Cawnpore has been
capt ured, II Is necessary that all the
subjects and landowners and goveTu'