Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-01-16

go Into all history, all art. all litera.
sure. all time. all eternityi My friends,
I that kind OF courage sanctihed viii yet take
the whole earth for God. Indeed, the mis-
sionaries now at Delhi. toiline amid heather.
1 ism and fever and cholera. ani lar away
| from homo and eomfert. aRd staying there
| usfN they drop tato their ssaves, are just a.
4 brave In tals&ag Dedhi for GtSeist as wore
Nicholson and home and Carmichael in TAX
] Ing Delhi for Great Britain. Take this for
4 the first sermonic lesson.
Another thing you must SEQ IL you 90 to
I Delhi, though you leave many things un-
seen. is the palace OF the moguls. 1t is an
inclosure 1000 var Is by 500. You enter through
| 3 vauted hall nearly 400 ieet long. Floors
OF Fiorentlne mosaic and walls once em-
Graded and sapphired and carounc ed and
dfamonded. said to the guide. 'Show US
where once stood the peacock throne.
"Here IT was" he responded. All the
| thrones OF the earth put together would
aot equal that for costliness and briiliance.
It had steps OF silver, and the seat and arms
we're Of solid gold. 1t cost about St50, ,00a.-
700. 1t stood between two peacocks. the
feathers and plumes of which were fashioned
sut Of colored stones. Above the throne
was q life size parrot cut out Of one EN-.
srald. Above all was q canopy resting on
Twelve columns Of gold, the canopy fringei
with pearls. Seated here, the emperor
On public occasions wore crown con-
aiming. among other things, the kohinoor
diamond, an the entire blazs OF coronst
,ost $l0. $50, 900. This superb and once al
most supernaturally beautiful room has i'm
oedded In the white marble wall letters oil
,lack marble, which were translated to me
rom Persian into English as meaning;
II on the earth there be an Elem OF bliss,
That place Is this, is this, Is this, Is this.
But the pencocks that stool beside tn
hrone have 6own away, taking all the dis
olay with them, an those white marble
nl with oil pynf far M
those bathrooms ran with b'oo'. and that
len of which the 2 rsiun couplet on the
walls spaks h is had its flowers wither and
| Is fruits decay, and thought while look
n2 at the brilliant desolation an 4 staining
! imid the vanished glories OF that throne
| -oom that some one had better change n
/ little that Persian couDlet on the wall and
make II read:
i, II there be place where much You miss,
That place is this, is this, Is this. Is this.
As I came out OF the palace into the stree,
OF Delhi. thought to myself paradises ara
not built out of stone: ara not cut IN scu'p-
ture are not painted on y his ara not fash
! ionei OUT OF precious stones do not spray the
caeek with fCuptains; do not offer thrones
| or crowns. Para lises are built out OF na-
lures uplifted ani ennobled, and what
architects compass may not sweep, and
| scuiptors chisei may not cut, and piiEter'.
pencil may not sketch, AM gard-nerS skill
achieve. and If the heart be right all is right,
\ and il tn heart be wrong all is wrong. Here
sndath the second less u.
But will not yet allow you to leave Delhi,
| The third tning you must see, or never admit
! .nnt you have bean in In iia. Is the mosque
| called lumm1 Musiii. Ii IL the grandest
4 mosque l ever SAW exc pit s.. Sophia at Con-
| st1ntinople, hut II SURPRISES that in some
| respects, for ST. Sopli1 was originally
| Christie n church and changed into mosque,
| la Z IN of al
| the Mcslems.
| As L entered 1000 or more Mohimmedans
| were prosir.red in worship. There are
| times VIXEN 5000 may be sen here in the
| same attitude. Each stone OF the floor l.
! three feet long by one and half wide, aa
| each worshiper has one OF these slabs for
| himself while kneeling. The erection OF
this building required 5000 laborers for six
| years. What a built up immensiiy OF white
| m arba ani red sanistoneI We descended
| the forty marble steps by waich We ascen led
| and took another look ut this wonder Of the
| world.
| As [ thou yht what a brain the architec.
| must have had who first built that mosque
| in his own Imagination, and as l Thought
] what an opulent ruler that must have been
| VINO gave the order for sucn vastness anls
| symmetry, l WAS reminded of that which
| perfectly explained all. The architect who
| planned this was the same man who
| planned the Taj-namely, Austin de Boz
l
constructed was the king who ordered
| the aj-namely, Shah Jehan. As this
| grand mogul ordered built the most
| splendid palace for the dead when he
! built the Tai at Agra, he here ordered built
I the most splendid palace OF worship for the
| and architecture can accomplish. They link
| together the centuries. They successfully
| DEFY time. Two hundred and eighty years
| ago Austin de Bordeau and Shah Jehan quit
/ l.. a..
\ to stand until the continents crack open, and
hem'spheres so down, and this planet show
| RS other worlds with its ashes.
Irejoce ia all these big buildings. .whethe,
| ledicuet 10 Mohamme1 or Brahma or Bud
| dha or Confucius or Zoroaster, because as
| ST. Sophia at Constantinople was a Christian
| churcn changed into mosque and will Yet
| be changed back again, so all the mosques
| and temples of superstition and sin will yet
| be turned into churches. When India
| and Ceylon AMI China and Japan are
| ransoned, as We all believe they will be,
| their religious structures will all be con-
verted into Christian asylums. and Christian
| schools, and Christian libraries, and Chris
tian churches. Built at the expense OF su-
perstitiou and sin. they will yet be dedicated
to the Lord Almighty. Here endeth the
| third lesst n.
| As that night we took the railrod trair
| rom the Delhi station and rolled out
| through the city now living over the vaster
cities buried under this ancient capital,
cities under cities, and our travelling SER
want had unrollei our bed, which consisted
| of a rug and two blankets and pillow. .and as
we were worn out with the sightseeing Of the
day, and were roughly tossed on that uneven
Indian railway, soon fell into troubled
sleep, in which saw and heard in a con-
fuse / way the scenes and sounds OF tho
| mutiny OF 1857, which at Delhi we had keen
accounting. and now the rattle OF tho train
seemed to turn into the rattle OF musketry,
IN now the light at the top OF tie car de-
udei me with the idea of burning city.
| and then the loud thump OF the railroad
brake was in dream mistaken for
looming battery, and the voices at the diff
ferent stations made me think heard the
loud cheer of the British at the taking OF
the Cashmere gate, and as We rolled over
bridges the battles before Delhi seemed
gong on, and as we went through DARK tun-
nels seemed TO see thetomb OF Humayun In
which the King OF Delhi was hidden, and In
my dreams l saw Lieutenant Kenny OF
the artillery throwing shells which were
n1ed to him, their fuses burning, and
| Campbell and Reid and Hope Grant covered
with blood, and Nicholson falling while raj
lying on the wall his waverinR troops. and
| saw dead regiment iaIien across dead reSi-
ment. and heard the ratapan OF the hoo
| Of Hodgson's horse. and the dash OF the
| Bengal artillery, an the stormng by the inn
| mortal fourth column, and the rouSher the
| Indian railway became and the darker the
night grew the more the scenes that I
had been studying at Delhi came on me like
an incubus. But the morning began to look
/ through the window OF our jolting railcar,
and the sunlight poured in on my pillow,
and in my dreams 1 saw the bright colors of
the English flag hoisted over Delhi, where
the green banner of the Moslem had waved,
and the voices OF the wounded and dying
seemed to be exchanged for the voices that
| wecomed soldiers homs again.
And as the morning light got brighter and
brighter. and in my dream I mistook the
bells at station for a church bell han ging
lin a minaret, where n Mohammedan priest
had mumbled his call to prayer, 1 seemed to
hear a chant. whether by human or angelic
voices in my dream L could not tell. but II
was ch ant about ''peace and good will to
men," And as the speed of the rail train
slackened the motion of the car became
so easy as we ro!lei along the track that
it seemed to me that all the distress
and controversy and jolting and wars Of the