Connecticut western news., 1894-12-13
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
REV. oR. TAlMAGE GIVES ANOTHER VIVID ROUND THE WORLD SERMON.
He Describes the Appalling Massacre of ChristiAns at Cawnpur In the Name of Religion and Accounts the Beauty of the Christian Faith.


 Religion and Accounts the Beauty of the
 Christian Faith.
 BROOKLYN, Dec 9.-Dr. Talmage to- Hay delivered through the press the sec ond of his "round the world" series of sermons. the subject being 'The City of Blood" and the text selected being Psalms cxli, q: ''Our bones are scat- tered at the graves mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth. But mine eyes are unto thee, O God, the Lordr'
 Though you may read this text from the Bible, I read it as cut by chisel into the pedestal of cross beneath which lie many of the massacred at Cawnpur. India To show you what Hindooism and Mohammedanism4 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 sin, and to remind you how our glorious Christianity may utter its triumph over death and the grave, l preach this my second sermon in the round the world series, and I shall speak of "The City of Blood, or Cawn- pur, India.
 Two hours and tensminutes after its occurrence Joseph Lee of the Shropshire regiment of foot rode in upon the Cawn- pur massacre. He was the first man met at Cawnpur. I wanted to hear the story from some one who had been here 2 in 1857 and with his own eyes gazed upon the slaughtered heaps of human ity. Icould hardly wait until the horses were put to the carriage, and MT. Lee, seated with us, started for the scene, the story of which makes tame in con trast all Modoc and Choctaw butcheries.
 A Genuine Villain.
 It seems that all the worst passions of the century were to be impersonated by ] one, man, and he Mana Sahib, and our escort at Cawnpur, Joseph Lee, knew the man personally. Unfortunately there is no correct picture of Mana Sa- hib-in existence. The pictures of him published in the books of Europe and America and familiar to us all are an amusing mistake This is the fact in regard to them: A lawyer of England was called to India for the purpose of defending the case of native 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 picture of his Indian client. After awhile the mutiny in India broke out, and Mama 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 wasea picture of his client, the. man charged with fraud. The attorney gave this picture to the journals as speci- men of the way the Hindoos dress, and forthwith that picture was used, either by mistake or Intentionally, for Mana Sahib. The English lawyer said he lived lin dread that his client would some day :sye 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 intended that the face of such 8 demon should be preserved amid human records. I said 'sto our escort, ''Mr Lee, was there any 1peculiarity in Mana Sahib's appear ance?" The reply was: Nothing very peculiar. He was dull, lazy, coward ly, sensual man, brought up to do noth- ing, and wanted to continue on the same scale to do nothing"
 From what MT. 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 an- nually pension of $400, ,000. When the . father died, the English government de- clined to pay the same pension to the son, Mana Sahib, but the poor fellow : was not in any suffering from lack of funds. His father left him $8O, 900 in gold ornaments, $500, 900 in jewels, $500, 900 in bonds and other resources amounting to at least $1, 500, 900. But the poor young man was not satisfied, and the Cawnpur massacre was his re- -venge General Wheeler, the English man who had command of this city, al- though often warned, could not see that the sepoys were planning for his de- struction, and that of all his regiments and all the Europeans in Cawnpur.
 The Decree of Mana Sahib.
 MT. Lee explained all this to me by the fact that General Wheeler had mar ried native, and he naturally took her story and thought there was no peril But the time for the proclamation from 7 Mana Sahib had come, and such a deou- ment went forth as never before had seen the light of day. I give only an ex- tract:
 "As by the kindness of God, and the good fortune of the emperor, all the 2 Christians who were at Delhi, Poonah, Sattara and other places, and even those : 5, 900 European soldiers who went in ! disguise into the former city and were { discovered, are destroyed and sent to he'll 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 ss 0uty VI 0A ouo buUJ0CtS huu bcTtdubS OI the government to rejoice at the delight ful 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 faced and narrow minded people have been sent to hell. and Cawnpur has been conquered. it is necessary that all the subjects and landowners and govern ment servants should be as obedient to the present government as they have been to the former one; that it is the : incumbent duty of all the peasants and landed proprietors of every district to rejoice at the thought that the Chris tians have been sent to hell, and both the Hindoo and Mohammedan religions lave been confirmed. and that they