Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-12-15
THE CITY OF BLOOD.
REV. DR.. TALMAGE GIVES ANOTHER
VIVID ROUND THE WORLD SERMON.

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REV. DR.. TALMAGE GIVES ANOTHER
VIVID ROUND THE WORLD SERMON.
tie Describes tho Appalling Massacre of
Christians at Cawnpur In the Name Of
Religion ard Recounts the Beauty of the
Christian Faith.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 9.-Dr. Talmage to-
day delivered through the press the Sec
ond Of his round the world" series of
sermons. tho subject being "Tho City
Of Blood, and tho text selected being
Psalms cxli, 2: .Our bones are scat
tered at the graves mouth, as when one
cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the
earth But mine eyes are unto thee, o
God, the Lordl'
Though you may read this text from
the Bible. l read it as cnt by chisel into
the pedestal of cross beneath which lie
many of the massacred at Cawnpur.
India. To show you what Hindooism
and Northumberland really are, where
they have full swing, and not as they
represent themselves in 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 tho
round the world series, and l shall
speak of "The City of Blood, or Gavin
pur, 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 /
met at Cawnpur. / wanted to hear tho
story from some one who had been hero
in 1857 and with his own eyes gazed
upon the slaughtered heaps Of human
ity lcould hardly wait until the horses
I were put to the carriage, and Mr.. Lee,
seated with us, started for the scene,
5he story of which makes tame in con-
trast all Modoo and Choctaw butcheries.
A Genuine Villain.
1t seems that all the worst passions of
the century were to be unprecedented by
one man, and he Mana Sahib, and our
escort at Cawnpur, Joseph Lee, knew
the man personally Unfortunately
there is no correct picture of Mana Sa-
nib in existence. The pictures of him
published in the books of Europe and
America and familiar to rs all are an
amusing mistake. This is the fact in
-egard to them: A lawyer of England
was called to India for the purpose of
defending the case of q native who had
/ leen charged with fraud. The attorney
anne and so skillfully managed the case
If his client that the client paid him
enormously for his services, and he
went back to England, taking 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 affair,
and the newspapers of England wanted
picture of him and to interview some
one on Indian affairs who had recently
been i'll India.
Among others the journalists called
upon this lawyer, lately returned. The
only picture he had brought from India
was picture of his client, the man
charged with fraud The attorney gave
this picture to the journals as speci-
men of tho way the Hindoos 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 tho 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 amid human records. | said
to our escort, ''Mr. Lee, was there any
popularity in Mana Sahib's appear
ance?" The reply was: Nothing very
peculiar. He was dull, lazy, coward
ly, sensual man, brought up to do moth
ing, 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 massacre in that city from
sheer revenge His father abdicated the
throne, and the English paid him an
nually q pension of $500, 600. When the
father died, the English government de-
clined to pay the same pension to the
son, Mana Sahib, but the poor fellow
was not i'll any suffering from lack of
funds. His father left him $50, 600 in
gold ornaments $500, 600 in jewels,
$500, 600 in bonds and other resources
amounting to at least 81, 500, COO But
the poor young man was not satisfied,
and tho Cawnpur massacre was his re-
yengo General Wheeler, the English
man who had command of this city, al
though often warned, could not see that
the sepoys were planning for his de-
struction, and that of all his regiments
and all the Europeans in Cawnpur.
The Decree of Mana Sahib.
Mr. Lee explained all this to me by
the fact that General Wheeler had mar
ried 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
feen the light of day. give only an ex-
tract:
las by tho kindness of God, and the
good 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 former 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 i'll these places it is the
duty of all the subjects and servants of
the government to rejoice at the delight
full intelligence and carry on their re-
zlpS ctive work with comfort and case
As By the bounty of the glorious AL
mighty and the enemy destroying for.
tune Of the emperor, the yellow faced
and narrow minded people have been
sent to hell, and Cawnpur has been
conquered, it is necessary that all the
subjects and landowners and povern