The Penn's Grove record., 1894-12-14
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BRoOKLYN DTvINE,s SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: ssThe City of Blood"

TEXT: "Our bones are scattered at the
graves mouth, as when one cutteth and
cleaveth wood upon the earth. But mine
eyes are unto Thee, o, God, tho LordP'-
Saint cxli..T 2,
Though you may read this text from tht
Bible, / read II as cut by chisel into the pc
iestal of a cross beneath which lie many OF
the mastered at Cawnpur, India. To show
you what Hindooism and Mohammedanism
really are, where they have full swing, and
not rs they represent themselves in a
l'pariiament CT religions" and to lemon
strate to what extent of cruelty and abom-
nation human nature may go when fully let
loose, and to illustrate the hardening pro-
cess OF sin, an1 to remind you how our
glorious Christianity may utter its triumph
over death and the grave, | preaeh this my
second sermon In the round the world series,
and I shall speak of 1.-THE City Of Blood" or
Cawnpur, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after It's
occurrence Joseph Lee, of the Shropshire
Regiment of foot. rode In upon the Cawn
pur massacre. He was the first man | met
Mt Cawnpur. 1 wanted to hear the story
| from some one who had been here 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 Mr.. Lee, seated with US,
| started for the scene, the story of which
makes tame in contrast all Moioc n
| Choctaw butcheries.
II seems that all the worst passions of the
| century were to be unprecedented by n
| nan. and he Nam Sahib, and our escort at
| Ca wnpur, Joseph Lee, knew the man per-
sonally. Unfortunately there is no cor
| rect picture of Mana Sthib in existence. The
pictures OF him published in the books OF
| Europe an America and familiar to us all
| are an amusing mistake. This Is the fact In
REGARD to them Alawyer OF England was
called to india for the purpose OF defending
the case OF a 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 bacE to England, TAX
lag with him "A picture of his In iian client.
After awhile the mutinY in Intia broke out,
and Mana Sahib was mentioned as the
champion villain of the whole affair, and tho
newspapers OF England wanted n picture of
him an 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 pic
ture he had brought from India was a pic
ture of his client, the man charged With
fraud. The attorney gave this picture to the
Journals as a specimen OF the way the Him
docs dress, and forthwith that picture was
used, either by mistake or Intentionally, for
Mana Sabib. The English lawyer said he
lived In dread that his client would some
day see the use made of his picture, and 1t
was not until the death OF his Hindoo client
that the lawyer dtvulged the facts. Perhaps
1t was never intended that the face OF such a
demon should be preserved amid human
records. | sail to oar escort, NJ Lee,
was there any p 'culiarlty In Mana SIhtb's
appearance?" The reply was Nothing
very peculiar. He was a dull. lazy, coward
~, sensual man, brought up TO do nothing
and wanted to continue on the Same scale to
do nothing.
From what Mr.. Lee told me m I from all
I could learn in India, Mana Slhib ordered
the massacre In that city ron sheer revenge,
His father abdieated tho throne, and the
English paid MIN annuity u pension OF
800. 900. When tho father died, the Eng
Iish Goyersment declined to pay the same
pension to the son. Mana Sahib, but the poor
fellow was not In any suffering non lack OF
funds. HIS father le't him $4,000 In gold
ornaments, $500. 900 in Jewels, $780, 09 in
| bonds and other resources amounting TO at
least 81, 500, 900. But the poor young man
was not satisfied, and the Cawnpur mlssl-
ore was his revenge. General Wheeler, the
| Englisnman who had commqnd OF this city,
although often warned, could not see that
he sepoys were planning for his destrue-
Hon. and that OF all his regiments and all
| the Europeans In Cawnpur.
MI. l4Hti tADldAltl al iht1 uAO " NHN
fact that General Wheeler had married a ma
| tive, and he naturally took her story AMI
Thought there was no peril. But tho time
for the proc amation from Mana Sahib had
come. and such a document went forth as
never before had seen the light OF day. l
lgivs only an extract
''As by the kindness OF Col, and the gooi
| fortune OF the emperor, all the Christians
who were at Delhi, Poonah, Sattara and
other places, and even those 5000 European
soldiers who went in disguise into the for
mer city ami were discovered, are destroyed
and sent to he'll by the pious and sagacions
Troops who are firm to their religion, and as
lthey have all been conquered by the present
lgoyernment, and as no trace OF them Is LETT
in these places, it is the duty OF all the sub
Iiects and servants Of tho government to re-
| joiee at tho delightful Intelligence and carry
on their respective work with comfort and
sase. AS by the bounty OF the glorious AL
mighty and the enemy destroying fortune OF
The emperor, the yellow faced and narrow
minded people have been sent TO nell ana
Cawnpur has been conquered, II is neoes'
sary that all the subjects and landowners
land government servants should he as