Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-31


decay, and thought while looking at
he brilliant desolation and standing
amid the vanished glories of that throne
room that some one had better char 20
little that Persian couplet on the wall
and make it read:
If thore be place where much you miss.
That place is this, is this, is this, is this.
AS I came out of the palace into the
street of Delhi, I thought to myself
paradises are not built out of stone; are
not cut in sculpture; are not painted on
walls; are not fashioned out of precious
stones; do not spray the cheek with
fountains; do not offer thrones or
crowns. Paradises are built out Of ma
lures uplifted and ennobIed, and what
architects compass may not sweep, and
sculptor's chisel may not cut, and paint
er's pencil may not sketch, and garden
er's skill may not lay out, the grace of
God can achieve, and if the heart be
right all is right, and if the heart be
wrong all is wrong. Here endeth the
second lesson.
But will not yet allow you to leave
Delhi. The third thing you must see,
India, is the mosque called Iumma Mus
jid. 1t is the grandest mosque I ever
saw except st. Sophia at Constantine
pie, but it surpasses that in some re-
spects, for ST. Sophia was originally ii
Christian church and changed into a
mosque, while this of Delhi was orig
inally built for the Moslems
A Worlds Wonder
AS entered 1000 or moro Moham-
medans were Frustrated in worship
There are times wheAa 5, 600 may be
seen here in the same attitude. Each
stone of the floor is 3 feet long by %
wide, and each worshiper has one Of
these slabs for himself while kneeIing.
The erection of this building required
5000 laborers for six years. It is on
plateau of rock; has four towers rising
far into the heavens; three great gate
ways inviting the world to come in and
honor the memory of the prophet Of
many wives; 15 domes, with spires gold
tipped, and six minarets. What built
up immensely Of white marble and red
sandstone? We descended the 40 mar
BILE steps by which we asc6nded and
world.
AS I thought what brain the archi-
tect must have had who first built that
in his own imagination, and as
thought what an opulent ruler that
must have been who gave the order for
such vastness and symmetry, was re-
minded of that which perfectly explain
ed all. The architect who Planned this
was the same man who planned the
Austin de Bordeau-and
the king who ordered the mosque con
structed was the king who ordered tho
Shah Jehan. AS this
grand mogul ordered built the most
splendid palace for the dead when he
built the Tai at Agra, he hero ordered
built the most splendid palace of wor-
ship for the living at Delhi. See here
what sculpture and architecture can &C.
They link together the CEN
turtles They successfully defy time.
Two hundred and eighty years ago Aus
this life, but their work lives and bids |
fair to stand until the continents crack |
open, and hemispheres go down, and |
this planet showers other worlds with |
it's ashes.
I rejoice in all these big buildings,
whether dedicated to Mohammed or
Brahma or Buddha or Confucius or 70 |
coaster. because as st. Sophia at Constan-
;inople was a Christian church chang !
ed into a mosque and will yet be chang
I'd back again, SO all the mosques and |
temples of superstition and sin will yet
De turned into churches. When India
md Ceylon and China and Japan are
as we all believe they will
De, their religious structures will all be
converted into Christian asylums, and
Christian schools, and Christian libra
les, and Christian churches. Built at
he expense of superstition and sin,
hey will yet be dedicated to the Lord
Almighty. Here endeth the third lesson
Under the English Flag.
AS that night we took the railroad
rain from the Delhi station and rolled
'ut through the city now living ovez
he vaster cities buried under this an
ient capital, cities under cities, and
'ur travelling servant had unrolled our
,ed, which consisted of rug and two
blankets and pillow, and as we were
worm out with the sightseeing of the
lay, and were roughly tossed on that
Uneven Indian railway, soon fell into
troubled sleep, in which I saw and
leard i'll a confused way the scenes and
ounds of the mutiny of 1867, which at
Delhi we had been recounting, and now
he rattle of the train seemed to turn
nto the rattle of musketry, and now
he light at the top of the car deluded
ne with the idea of a burning city, and
hen the loud thump of the railroad
rake was in dream mistaken for a
coming battery, and the voices at the
ifferent stations made me think I
card tbs loud cheer of the British at
ne taking Of the Cashmere gate, and as
nasrOllad over bridges the battles he