The free press., 1894-12-27
REV. DR.. TALMAGE.
rME BRoOKhYN DiNINEs SUN.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The City of Blood"

TEXT; "Our bones are scattered 1t tn
graves mouth, as when ons cu'teth an
cleavei wood upon the earth. But min
eyes are unto Thee, o, God, the Lord ?'-
Psalms cxli., Z.
Though YOU may read this text from th'
Bible, | read it as cut by chisel into the pc
destal of cross beneath which lie many o
the ma sacred at Oawnpur, India. To show
you what Hindoosm and Mohammedanfsn
really are, where they have full swing, and
not as they represent themselves in {
t'parlament CT religions" and to demon
strate to what extent of cruelty and abom.
ination human nature may go when fully lei
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 ''The City OF Blood" or
Cawnpur, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after its
occurrence Joseph Lee. of the Shropshire
Regiment of foot rode in upon the GAVIN
pur massacre. He was the first man I met
at Cawnpur l 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. 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 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
Cawnpur, Joseph Lee knew the man per-
sonally. Unfortunately there is no cor
rect 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: Alawyer OF England was
called to india for the purpose of defending
the case of q native who had been charged
with fraud The attorney came and so
skillfuliy managed the case OF his client that
the client paid him enormously for his
services. and he went back to England. TAX
ing with him a picture of his Indian client.
After awhile the mutiny in India broke out.
and Mana Sahib was mentioned as the
champion villain of the whole affair. and tho
newspapers OF England wanted IA 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 he had brought from India was pic
ture of his client. the man charged with
fraud The attorney gave this picture to the
journals ASA 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 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 amid human
records. l said to our escort. "Mr. Lee,
was there any popularity in Mana Sahib's
appearance2" The reply was: Nothing
very peculiar. He was dull. lazy, coward
ly, 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
l could learn in India, Mana Sahib ordered
the massacre in that city from sheer revenge.
His father abdicatod the throne, and the
English paid him annually a pension OF
S400, 900. When the father died. the Eng
lish Government declined to pay the same
pension to the son, Mana Sabib, but the poor
fellow was not in any suffering flom lack of
funds. His father left him $50, 900 In gold
ornaments, $500 900 in Jewels, SS00,000 in
bonds and other resources amounting to at
least 81 500, 900. But the poor young man
was not satisfied and the Cawnpur nassa-
ere was his revenge. General Wheeler, the
Englishman who had command of this city,
although often warned. could not sec that
the sepoys were planning for his destruc-
the Europeans in Cawnpur.
Mr. Lee explained all this to me by the
fact that General Wheeler had married na-
tive, and he naturally took her story and
thought thero was no peril. But the 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
give only an extract:
''As by the kindness OF God, 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 and sagacious
troops who are firm to their religion, and as
they have all been conquered by the present
government, and as no trace OF them is left
in these places, it Is the duty of all the sub
jects and servants Of the government to re-
joice at the delightful intelligence and carry
on 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, and
Cawnpur has been conquered, it is neces-
snry that all the subjects and landowners
and government servants should be rs
obedient 10 the present government as they
have been to the former one that it Is the
Incumbent duty of all tho peasants and
landed proprietors OF every district to re-
joice at the thought that the Christians have
been sent to hell, and both tho Hlndoo 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
selves to reach to the ears of the higher au-
thorty."
'Mr. Lee, what is this?" 1 said to our es-
cort as the carriage halted by an em6ank-
ment. "Aere," ne said, sis the intrerch-
ment where the Christians of Cawnpur TOOK
refuge" 1t is the remains of wall which
at the time of the mutiny was only four fee
high, behind which, with no shelter from
the sun, the heat ut 130 degrees, 4fC men
$50 women and children dwelt nearly
month. A handful OF flour and split peas
was the daily ration, AMI only two wells near
by. the one in which they buried their dead
because they had no tino to bury them IL
the earth, and the other well the focus or
which the artillery of the enemy played, 81
that it was a chocs between death by thirs
and death by bullet or shell. Ten thousanC
yelling Hindoos outside this frail wall anC
1000 suffering. dying people inside. In ad
dition to the army of the Hindoos an
Moslems, and invisible army of sicknes
swooped down upon them. Some went raw
ing mad under exposure. Others droppeS
under apolexy. A starving, mutilate !
ievered. sunstruck, ghasly group waitinl
10 die Why did not the heathen dash dow
those mud walls and tho 10000 annihilat