Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1894-12-31
IN RUINED PALACES.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE AT THE CITY OF
DELHI, INDIA.

n N1y1d "OrlO
BROOKLYN, Dec. 3O-Continuing his
series of round the world sermons
through the press, Rev. DIR. Talmage to-
day chose for his subject ''Palaces In
India the text being Amos iii, 10,
"Who store up violence and robbery in
their palaces. -
In this day, when vast sums Of money
are being given for the redemption OF
India, hope to increase the interest in
that great country and at the same time
draw for all classes of our people practi-
cal lessons, and so 1 present this fifth
sermon in the round the world series
India, the mere pronunciation of its
name sending thrill through the body,
mind and soul of all those who have ever
read its stories of splendor and disaster
and prowess-Delhi.
Before the first historian impressed
his first word in clay, or cut his first
word on marble, or wrote his first word
ON papyrus, Delhi stood in India, a con-
temporary of Babylon and Nineveh. We
know that Delhi existed longer before
Christ's time than we live after his
time Delhi is built on the ruins of sew
en- cities, which ruins cover 40 miles,
with wrecked temples, broken fortresses,
split tombs, tumble down palaces and
the debris of centuries. An archeologist
could proftably spend his life here talk
ing with the past through its lips of
venerable masonry.
The Mutiny In India.
There are hundred things hexe you
ought to see in this city of Delhi, but
three things you must see. The first
thing 1 wanted to see was the Cashmere
gate, for that was the point at which
the most wonderful deed of daring
which the world has ever seen was done.
That was the turning point of the mu-
tiny of 1857. A lady at Delhi put into
my hand an oil painting of about Is
inches square, a picture we'll executed,
but chiefly valuable for what it repre-
scented. 1t was a scene from the time of
mutiny; two horses at full run, har-
messed to carriage in which were four
persons. She said: ''Those persons on
the front side are my father and moth
er. The young lady on the back seat
holding in her arms a baby of a year
was my older sister, and the baby was
myself. My mother, who is down with
a fever in the next room, painted that
years ago. The horses are in full run
because we are fleeing for our lives. by
mother is driving, for the reason that
father, standing up in the front of his
carriage. had to defend US with his gun,
as you there see. He fought our way
out and ON for many mile, shooting
down the sepoys as we went. We had
somewhat suspected trouble and had be-
come suspicious of our servants. a
prince had requested private interview
with my father, who was editor of the
Delhi Gazette. The prince proposed to
come yelled, so that no one might recog-
nize him, but my mother insisted on be-
ing present, and the interview did not
take place. A large fish had been sent
to our family and four other families,
the present an Offering of thanks for the
kings recovery from a recent sickness.
But we suspected poison and did not
eat the fish.
One Gay all our servants came up and
said they must go and see what was the
matter. We saw what was intended
and knew that if the servants returned
they would murder all of us. Things
grew worse and worse until this scene
of flight shown you in the picture took
place. You see, the horses were wild
with fright. This was not only because
of the discharge of guns but the horses
were struck and pounded by sepoys,
and ropes were tied across the way,
and the savage halloo and the shout of
revenge made all the way Of our flight
horror. "
The Savage Sepoys.
The books have fully recorded the he
roism display ed at Delhi ed approx
mate regions. but made 20 mention of
this family of Wagentreibers whose
flight am mentioning. But the Madras
Atheneum printed this:
'And now! Are not the deeds of the |
Wagentreibers, though he wore round
hat and she a crinoline, as worthy of |
imperishable verse as those Of the he |
roic pair whose nuptials graced the |
court of Charlemagne? A more touch
ing picture than that of the brave man
contending with we'll nerved arm
against the black and threatening fate
over his wife and child we
have never seen. Here was no strife for
the glory q physical prowess or the
spoil OF shining arms, but conquest Of
the human mind, an assertion of the
powers OF Intellect over the most ap-
palling array Of circumstances that
could ass human being. Men have
become g. ID front of sudden and un-
expected I'll, and in ancient days so
mucl as e0urage a matter of heroics
and Ia lstinct that we read in i'm
mortal verse of heroes struck with panic
and fleeing before the enemy. But the
savage Sepoys, with their hoarse war
cry and swarming like wasps around