Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-12-27
3THE CITY OF BLOOD
Subject of a Sermon by Rev. T.
Dewitt Talmage, D. D.
Lessons Drawn from the Awful Massacre oil
Cawnpore, India-What Mohamme-
danism and Hindooism Really
Area Word to Free
Thinkers. n

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DIR. 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 ana cleaveth wood upon
the earth. But mine eyes are unto Thee, @
God the Lord"
Though you may read this text from
the Bible, read it as cut by chisel into
the pedestal of a 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 a 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
Mr.. 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,
ha tks,,.s - IN,,rrl no
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 a picture of his
client, the man charged with fraud
The attorney gave this picture to the
journalists as specimen of the way
the Hindoos dress, and forthwith that
picture was used, either by mistake or
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 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 demon should be |
preserved among human records said |
to our escort: MIR. 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 learn |
in India. Mana Sahib ordered the mas
sacre in that city from sheer revenge. |
His father abdicated the throne, and |
the English paid him annually pen
sion of $500, 600 When the father died
the English government decided to pay
the same pension to his son, Mana
Sahib, but the poor fellow was not in
anv suffering from lack of funds. His
father left him $4,000 in gold orna-
ments; 100000 in jewels; 100000 in
bonds, and other resources amounting
to at least l.5oo.O 600. But the poor
young man was not satisfied and the
Cawupore massacre was his revenge.
Gen Wheeler, the Englishman who had
command of this city, although often
warned. could not see that the Sepoys
were planning for his destruction and
that of all his regiments and all the
Europeans III Cawnpore.
Mr.. Lee explained all this to me by
the fact that Gen. Wheeler had married
a native, and he naturally took her
story and thought there was no peril.
But the time for the proclamation from
Mana Sahib had come, and such docu-
ment went forth as never before had
seen the light of day. / give only an
extract:
AS by the kindness of God and the
good fortune of the Emperor all the
Christians who were at Delhi Poonah,
and other places, and even
those 5000 European soldiers who went
in disguise into the former city and were
discovered and sent to hell by the pious |
and sagacious troops. who are firm to
their religion. and as they have all been
by the present government.