Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1894-12-21
REV. DR.. TALMAGE
The Eminent Brooklyn Divine'S Sum
day Sermon.
..The City of Blood"


cleaveth wood upon the earth. But mine
eyes are unto Thee, o, God, the Lord -
Psalms cXh., Z.
Though you may read this text from the
Bible, read 1t as cut by chisel into the pc.
destal Of a cross beneath which lie many OF
the massacred at Cawnpur, India. To show
you what Hindooism and Mohammedanism
really are, where they have full swing, and
rot as they represent themselves in a
"pariiament CT religions" and to demon
straie TO what extent OF cruelty and abom1
ination human nature may go when fully let
loose, and to illustrate the hardening pro-
cess 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 1.-THE City OF Blood" or
Cawnpur, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after its
occurrence Joseph Lee, OF the Shropshire
Regiment OF foot, rode ip upon the Gavin
pur massacre. He was the first man | met
at Cawnpur. l wanted 10 hear the story
from some one who had been here In 1857
and with his own eyes gazed upon the
slaughtered heaps OF humanity. l 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 Moloe and
Cbootaw butcheries.
II seems that all the worst passions OF tho
century were to be impersonated by ons
man, and be Mana Sahib, and our escort at
Cawnpur, Joseph Lee, knew the man per-
sonaly. Unfortunately there is no cor
rect picture of Mana Sahib In existence. The
pictures OF him published in the books OF
Europo and 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 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 Tor his
services, and he went back 10 England, TAX
ing with him picture Of his In 1ian client.
After awhile the mutiny in In la broke out,
and Mana Sahib was mentioned as the
champion villain Of the whole affair, and tho
newspapers OF England wanted 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 pic
ture be had brought from India was 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 Hin
docs dress, and forthwith that picture was
used, either by mistake or Intentionally, for
Mana Sahib. The English lawyer said he
lived in dread that his client would some
day see the use made of his picture, and 1t
was rot until the death OF his Hindoo client
that the lawyer divulged tho facts. Perhaps
1t was never intended that the face Of such a
demon should be preserved amid human
recor g. sail to our escort, "Mr Lee,
was there any popularity in Mana Sahib's
appearance" The reply was Nothing
very peculiar. He was dull, lazy, coward
]y, sensual man, brought up to do nothing
and wantel to continue on the same scale 10
Go nothing.
From what Mr.. Lee told mo and from all
I could learn in India, Mana SIhib ordered
the massacre in that city from sheer revenge.
His father abdicated the throne, and the
English paid him annually pension OF
500, 900. When the father died, the Eng
lish Government declined to pay the same
pension to the son, Mana Sahlb but the poor
fellow was not in any suffering no n lack OF
funds. His father let him $4,000 in COLL
ornaments, $500. 900 in jewels, 100000 in
bonds and other resources amounting 70 at
least 81 500. 900. But the poor young man
was not satisfied, AMI the CIwnpur massa-
ere was his revenge. General Wheeler, the
Euglshman who had command OF this city,
although often warned, could not see that
the sepoys were planning for his destruc-
tioa. and that OF all his regiments AMI all
the Europeans in Cawnpur
Mr. Lee explained all this to me by the
fact that General Wheeler had married ma
tive, and he naturally took her story an i
thought there was no peril. But the time
for the proc amation from Mana Sahib had
come, and such document went forth as
never before had seen the light OF day. l
give only an extract
Gas by the kindness of Col, and the cool
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 and were discovered, are destroyed
and sent to hell by the pious an1 sagacious
troops who are firm to their religion, and as
they have all been conquered by the present
government, and as no trace or them Is lett
in these places, it is the duty OF all the SUBJ
iects and servants Of the government to re-
joce at the delightful Intelligence and carry
or their respective work with comfort and
ease. 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 hell, ana
CaWnpur has been conquered 1t is neces-
sary that all the subjects AMI landowners
and government servants should be as
o5edlent 10 the present government as they
have been 10 the former one that it is the
incumbent duty of all the peasants AMI
landed proprietors Of every district to re-
ioice at the thought that the Christians have
been sent to hell and both the Hindoo and
Mohammedan religions have been confirmed.
and that they should, as usual, be obedient
TO the authorities OF the government and
never suffer any complaint against them
Il, kho, Of In irfhn H..
thority."
"Mr. Lee. what is ths?" I said to our es-
cort as the carriage haltel by an embank-
ment. "aere," he said, sis the intrench-
ment where the Christians OF Cawnpur took
refuge" 1t is the remains of wall which
at the time of the mutiny was only four feet
high, benin which, with 10 shelter from
the sun, the heat at 130 degrees, 44) men,
$50 women and children dwelt nearly a
month. A handful of -four and split peas
was the daily ration, and onlytw wells near
by, the one in which they buried their dead,
because they had no time to bury them In
the earth, and the other well the focus on
which the artillery of the enemy played, so
that it was choice between death by thirst
and death by bullet or shell. Ten thousand
yelling Hindoos outside this fratl wall and
1000 suffering. dying people inside. In adj
dition to the army OF the Hindoos aud
Moslems. AMI invisible army Of sickness
swooped down upon them. Some went raw
ing NAL under exposure. Others dropped
under apolexy. A starving, mutilate1,
Ievered, sunstruck, CHASTITY group waiting
10 die Why did not the heather dash down
those mu walls AMI the 10000 annihilate
the now less than 1000? 1t was because they
seemed supernaturally defended.
Mana Sahib resolved to celebrate an an
niversary. The % of June, 1851, would be
100 years since the battle OF Plassy, when,
under Lord Give, India surrendered to
England. That day the last European in
Cawnpur was to be slau ydterel. Other an