The free press., 1894-12-20
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
rAE BROOKLYN DItlNE's sun.
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "The City Of Blood"

TEXT: s'Our bones are scattered 1t th
graves mouth, rs when one cutteth an
cleaveth wood upon the earth. But min
eyes are unto Thee, o, God, the Lord !''-
Psalms cxli., =.
Though you may read this text from th
Bible, | read it as cut by chisel into the pc
destai of a cross beneath which lie many c
the ma sacred at Cawnpur, India. To sho'
you what Hindooism and Mohammedanfsr
really are where they have full swing, an
not as they represent themselves in
"parliament CT religions" and to demon
strate to what extent of cruelty and abom
tnation human nature may go when fully Ie
loose. and to illustrate the hardening pro
cess of sin. and to remind you how on
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" o.
Cawnpur, India.
Two hours and ten minutes after III
occurrence Joseph Lee, of the Shropshire
Regiment OF foot. rode in upon the Gavin
pur massacre. He was the first man 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. / 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-
sonaly. Unfortunately there is no cor
rect picture of Mana Snhib 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 tho 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, TAX
ing with him 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 affnir, and tho
newspapers of England wanted q 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 as.a specimen OF the way the Hin
docs dress, and forthwith that picture was
used, either by mistake or Intentionally. for
Mana SAND. ne EuBi'oi ia"yoh 'ei" NO
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 a
demon should be preserved amu human
records. l said to our escort, "Mr. Lee,
was there any peculiarly IN Mana San,o
appearanceP" The reply was: Notnlng
very peculiar. He was a duli. lazy, coward
ly, sensual man, brought up to do nothing
and wanted to continue on the same scale 10
do nothing.
From what Mr.. Lee told me and from all
7 could learn in India. Mana Sahib ordered
the massacre in that city from sheer revenge.
His father abdicated the throne, and the
English naid him annually Il pension of
S4OO 600 When the father died. the Eng
lish Goyersment declined to pay the same
pension TO the son. Mana Sahib but the poor
fellow was not in anv suffering fl ON lack of
funds. His father left him $50. 900 In gold
ornaments s5DO 900 in Jewels $500. 900 in
bonds and other resources amounting to at
least al 5oo nm Rnt the moor Young man
was NOT satisfied and the Cawupur massa-
ora yas his revenop General Wheeler. the
Epclishman who had command of this city.
although often warned. could not see that
the senovs we're Manning for his destruc-
lion and tbnt Of ali his regiments and all
hn n
Mr. les eynloined Mi this TO me by the
fact that General Wbeeler had married a ma
tive and ba naturally took her story and
tbonoht tberc wna no neril But the time
for tha nrociamation from Mana Sabib had
como md such a document went forth as
never hefore had seen tho light of day. |
e,i,,a onI,, an avtroct.
"As by the kindness of God. and the goo
fortune of the emperor, all the Christians
who we're 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 pous 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 SUBJ
iecis ana servants of the government to re-
ioce at the delightful intelligence and carry
on their respectiye work with comfort and
eose As by the bounty of the glorious AL
mighty and the enemy DESTROYING fortune oil
the emneror the yellow faced and narrow
minded neonle have been sent to hell. and
Cawnpur has been conquered, it is neces
sorv that all the subjects and landowners
and royernment servants should be as
obediept 10 the present government as the,
have been TO the former one: that il is thu
ncumbent dntv of all the peasants an(
landed propretors of every district to re
ioice at the thought that the Christians have
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