Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-12-17

seeming gold IN many cases turns out
to be brass. The precious stones in the
wall turn out to be paint The marble
is stucco. The slippery and disgusting
steps lead you TO images Of horrible
visage, aud the flowers put upon the
altar have their fragrance submerged
By that which is the opposite OF aro-
matics.
After you have seen the CHATS. the
two great things in Benares that you
must see are the Golden and Monkey
Temples. About the vast Golden Tenn
pie there is not as much gold as would
make an English sovereign. The air
itself is asphyxiated. Here we see men
making gods out OF mud and then put
ting their hands together 10 worship oil
that which themselves have made. Sa-
cred cows walk up and down the temple.
Here stood Faklr with right arm
upllfted, and for so long time that he
could not take it down, aud the nails OF
the hand had grown until they looked
like serpents winding in and around the
palm.
The god OF the Golden Temple is
silva, or the poison god. Devils wait
upon him. He is the god OF war, OF
famine, Of pestilence. He is the de-
stroyer. He has around his neck a
string OF skulls. Before him bow men
whose hair never knew comb. They
eat carrion and that which is worse.
Bells and drums here set up a racket.
Pilgrims come from hundreds of miles
away, spending their last piece OF
money and exnausting their last item
OF strength In order 20 reach this Col
den Temple, glad TO die In or near it,
and have the ashes Of their bodies
THROWN INTO THE CANOES.
And now as to the industrious ma
lignment of missionaries: 1t has been
said by some travellers after their re-
turn to America or England that the
missionaries are living life full OF in
dolencs and luxury. That is false
hood that l would say is as high as
heaven II II il did not 60 down in the
opposite direction. When strangers
come into these tropical climates, the
missionaries do their best to entertain
them, making sacrifices for thaJpur-
pose. In the city OF Benares a mis-
sionsry told me that q gentleman com
sion stations OF India, the missionaries
banded together to entertain him.
Among other things, they had a ham
boiled, prepared and beautifully deco
rated, and the same ham was passed
around from house TO house as
this stranger appeared, and in
other respects conspiracy OF kind
ness was effected. The visitor went
home to England and wrote and spoke
OF the luxury In which the missionaries
of India were living, Americans aud
Englishmen come to these tropical re-
gions and find missionary living un-
der palms aud with different styles OF
fruits on his table, and forget that
palms are here as cheap as hickory or
pine ia America, and rich fruits as cheap
as plain apples. They find here mission
aries sleeping under punkas, these
fans swung day and night by coolies,
and forget that four cents day Is good
wages here, aud the man finds himself.
Four cents a day for a coachman;
missionary can afford to ride. There
have been missionaries who have come
to these hot climates resolving
TO LIVE AS THE NATIVES LIVE,
and one or two years have finished their
work, their chief use on missionary
ground being that OF furnishing for
large funeral the chief object of inter
est. So far from living in idleness, no
men on earth work so hard as the mis-
sionaries now in the foreign field.
Against fearful odds, and with three
millions OF Christians opposed TO two
hundred and fifty millions OF Hindoos,
Mohammedans and other false religions,
these missionaries are trying to take
India for God. Let the good people OF
America, and England, aud Scotland,
and Of all Chrlstendom add ninety-nine
and three-Quarters per cent, to their
appreciation OF the fidelity and
conservation Of foreign missionaries.
PARKWAY from home, in an exhaust
ing climate, and compelled TO send
their children to England, Scotland or
America TO escape the corrupt converse
ton and behavior of the natives, these
men and women toll on until they drop
into their graves. But they will get
their chief appreciation when their
work is over and the day is won, as it
will be won. No place In heaven will be
too good for them. Some OF the minis
ters at home who live on salaries Of
$4,000 or $4,000 year, preaching the
gospel Of him who had not where to lay
his head, will enter heaven and be well
coined, and while looking for place 10
sit down they will be told: "Yonder in
that lower line of thrones you will take
your places. Not on the thrones near
est the King; they are reserved for the