The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-03
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE DROOKLYN D,viNEs> sUS-
DAY SERiUH
Subject "Pnlaces I'm India"


sery in their palaces. Amos ill.,. 10.
In this day. when vast sums OF moneT
,-e being given for the redemption OF In
iia. hope TO increase the interest In that
yreat country and nj the same time draw
ior all Glasses OF our people practical les
s,ns, and so present this nth sermon In
Ibe round the world series. We step into
,beanclent capital OF India. the mere pro-
annexation OF its name sending thrill
through the body, mind and soul OF all
those who have ever read Its stories OF
.penior and disaster and prowess-Delhi.
Before the first historian impressed his
ers, word In clay. or cut his first word on
usrble. or wrote his first word on papyrus,
Dehi stood In India, q contemporary OF
ylon ani Nineveb. We know that Delhi
eyisted longer before Christ's time than we
iva after His time. Debit is built on the
ruins OF seven cities, which ruins cover forty
| mile, with wrecked temples, broken
| for,resses. split tombs, tumble down palaces
| and the debris OF centuries. An archRologist
could probably spend his life here talking
with the past through its lips OF venerable
| masonry.
There nra a hundred things here you
~ IN; 10 see In this city OF Delhi, but three
| things YOU must see. The first thing want
rl 10 see WINS the Cashmere gate, for that
vas the point at which the most wonderful
leeI Of daring which the world has ever
asgu Wit NOufs 4 uHN Nt7 iut turning IOiuN
the mutiny OF 1857. A lady at Delhi pu,
iaio ny hand nm oil painting OF about eight
ren inches square, a picture well executed.
lot chiefly valuable for what II repre-
sentel IL was scene from the time OF
nu,ny, two horses at full run, har,
messed TO carriage in which were four
PERSONS She said Those persons on
ihe front side are my father and mother.
The young lady on the back seat hold
ips 10 her arms baby OF q yeas was
nv elder sister. and the baby was my
sel Ny mother. who Is down wisb a
fever in the next room, painted that
years age. The horees are In full run
ecause we are fleeing for our lives. Ny
mother IL driving, for tps reason that father.
Standing up In the front OF his carriage, had
70 defend us with his gun, as you there see.
le fought our way out and on for many q
mile. shooting down the sepoys as We went.
We had somewhat suspected trouble and
had become suspicious OF our servants. A
prince had requested private interview
Delhi Gazette. The prince proposed to
come veiled. go that no one might recog-
nizs him, but my mother insisted on being
PRESENT. and the interview did not take
Pace large fish had been sent TO our
family and four other families, the present
an Offering OF thanks for the Kings recovery
lrom recent sickness. But we suspected
poison and did not eat the fish.
zone Gay all our servants came up and said
uihpv CUst 20 and see what was the matter.
We saw what was intended and knew that IL
Tie servants returned they would murder all
o'us. Things grew worse and worse until
ihi, scene OF flight shown you In the picture
TOOK place. You see. the horses were wild
= i with fright This was not only because OF
n The discharge OF guns, but tho horses were
D struck ard pouns sed BY sepoys, and ropes
. were tied acfcss the way, and the savage
D hal.oo and the shout OF revenge made all the
= way Of our flight horror"
e The books have fully recorded the hero
Q sn displayed Mt Debit and Approximate
vpgions, but made no mention OF this fam
vlyo Wagentreibers whose flight am mem
Vioning. But the Madras Atheneum printed
ms
~ md now Ara not the deeds Of the Wag-
= YilrefOeTs tifoupn he wore a roui ''''-s
a1 Me a crinoline, as worthy OF imiVe been
le- Serse NJ those OF the heroic pair ,,.,oo,.t,.
AM Nals cracetl the court OF Chariet -
n lore touching picture than trected 4
eL Nave man contending With Sed sneryed
tn against the black and threatening fate
re depending over his wife and child we
h4 pave never seen. Here was no strife for the
floty OF physical prowess or the spoil OF
linlng arms, but conquest OF the human
PM, an assertion OF the powers of Intellect
ver the most appalling array OF circum-
M ancts that could assail human being.
lat have become gray in front OF sudden and
n nexprcted peril. and In ancient days so
ID llch was courage u matter OF heroic
"A ~ iDerB instinct that we read In i'm
oNal verse OF heroes struck with panic
M q elng before the enemy But the saw
sepoys. with their hoarse warcry and
q irnIng like wasps around tho Wagen-
b RS, struck no terror into the brave
, heart His herolsm was not the mere
llitiOn Of lpgnair bit lika thar nf hiG
e, calm and wlse--standinc upright that
might use his arms better
As an Incident Will sometimes more in
7 ess one than u generality OF statement, I
d sent the flight OF this one family from
FIhi merely to illustrate the desperation OF
q times. The fact was that the sepoys had
fen possession Of the city OF Delhi, and
! y We're. with all their artillery. fightins
] cI the Europeans who were on the out
and numbering all the Europeans who
re inside Tne city OF Delhi has n
hula,ed wall on three sides, q wall
IA eanda half miles long, and the fourth side OF
city Is defended by the River Jumna. In
50 llltion 10 these two deienses OF wall and
e ger there wera 10000 sepoys, all armed.
ri eIve hundred British soldiers were 10
e that city. Nicholson, the immortal
Aeral. commanded them. and you must
, MS gravn before you leave Delhi. He
leading his troops. He commanded
. az 'N'H altfr DbluP nOrthliy WOuuuels
'' Will read this inscription on his tomb
~ Ohm Nicholson. who led tho assault OF
~, tut foil in the hour OF victory,
rally wounded. and died 23l September,
agel thirty-Hve years.
hh what guns and men General Nichol-
'onlt muster he had laid Siege 10 this
'"l city filled with devils. What fearful
zen i. Twelve hundred British troops un-
rel by any military works, TO take a
mn 'urrounded by firm and high masonry,
, 4 1r Top ot whioh were III guns ami de-
l'a hy 10000 foaming sepoys. A larger
en- rhthge OF troops fell here than In
ns great battle happen to know o. The
, n mean percentage OF the fallen was l7.is =,
rfer Dc percentage Of Delhi was 37.9. Yet
ey eily must be taken. and II can only be
m. 70 hy such courage as had never BEEN re-
ed IN all the annals OF bloodshsd. Every
Iersl 'Se OF the British regiments against the
ND snd gntes had been beaten back. The
and las OF Hindooism and MohammedanIsm
'he nl over the walls. and the English
.rtio could do nothing but bury their own
4, |. But at this gate stand and watch
he sP'oIt that makes the page OF history