The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-12-12
@THE CITY OF BLOOD"
Subject of a Sermon by Rev. II.
Dewitt Talmage, D. D.
Cawnpore, IndIa-What Mohamme-
danism and Hindooism Really
Area Word to Free
Thinkers

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Thinkers.
DR.. Talmage has delivered through
the press the second of his Round
the World" series of sermons, the sub
! ject being "the City of Blood" and the
| text selected Psalms cxii, Z:
"Our bones are scattered. at the graves
mouth, as one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon
the earth. But mine eyes are unto Thee o
God the Lord"
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 Cawnpore,
India. To show you what Hindooism
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 sin, 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 Gavin
pore, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after its
occurrence, Joseph Lee, of the Shrop-
shire Regiment Of Foot, rode in upon
the Cawnpore massacre. / wanted to
hear the story from some one who had
been there in 1857, and with his own
eyes gazed upon the slaughtered heaps
OF humanity. / could hardly wait until
the horses were put to the carriage, and
MIR. Lee, seated 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 Unfortunate
ly, 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. 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
a picture of his Indian client. After a
while the mutiny in India broke out,
and 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 jour
nalists called upon this lawyer, recent
ly returned. The only picture he had
brought from India was picture of his
client, the man charged with fraud
The attorney gave this picture to the
journalists as a specimen of the way
the Hindoos dress, and forthwith that
picture was used, either by mistake OIL
intentionally, for Mana Sahib. The
English lawyer said that he lived in
dread that his client would some day
see the use made of his picture, and il
was not until the death of his HindoC
client that the lawyer divulged the
facts. Perhaps it was never intended
that the face of such demon should be
preserved among human records. Isaic
to our escort: "Mr Lee, was there any
popularity in Mana Sahib's appear
ance?" The reply was: Nothing very
peculiar; he was dull, lazy, cowardly
sensual man, brought up to do nothing
and wanted to continue on the same
scale to do nothing" From what Mr.
Lee told me, and from all could learI
in India, Mana Sahib ordered the mas
sacre in that city from sheer revenge
His father abdicated the throne, ant
the English paid him annually pen
sion of S400,0O0. When the father dice
the English government decided to pay
the same pension to his son, Nant
Sahib, but the poor fellow was not il
any suffering from lack of funds. Hi
father left him $4,000 in gold orna
ments; $5OO,OOO in jewels; $500, 900 il
bonds, and other resources amounting
to at least S1,500,000. But the poo
young man was not satisfied and tn,
Cawnpore massacre was his revenge
Gen. Wheeler, the Englishman who hat
command of this city, although oftei
warned, could not see that the Sepoy
were planning for his destruction ant
that of all his regiments and all tn,
Europeans in Cawnpore.
Mr.. Lee explained all this to me b.
the fact that Gen. Wheeler had married
native, and he naturally took he
story and thought there was no peril
But the time for the proclamation iron
Mana Sahib had come, and such docu
ment went forth as never before ha,
seen the light of day. l give only al
extract:
GAS by the kindness of God and tn
good fortune of the Emperor, all tn
Christians who were at Delhi, Poonah
Sattara, and other places, and evel
: those 5000 European soldiers who wen
in disguise into the former city and wer
= discovered and sent to hell by the piou
and sagacious troops, who are firm t
their religion, and as they have all beel
conquered by the present government
and as no trace of them is left in thes
places, it is the duty of all the subject
and servants of the government to re
joice at the delightful intelligence an
carry on their respective work wit
comfort and ease. AS by the bounty O
the glorious Almighty and the enemy