The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-01-03

necessary before the city was in complete
possession the crisis was past. The Cash
mere gate open. the capture OF Debit aud
all II contained OF palaces and mosques and
treasures was possible.
Lord Napier. OF Maedala, OF whom Mr..
Gladstone spoke to mo so afYectionately
when was his guest at Hawarden, England,
has lifted monument near this Cashmere
gate, with the names OF the men who there
fell inscribed thereon. That English lord,
who had seen courage on many battlefield,
visited this Cashmere gate and felt that the
men who opened IL with the loss OF
their own lives ought to be commence
rated, and hence this cenotapb. But, after
all, the best monument is the gate itself,
with the deep gouges In the brick wall on
the left side made by two bombshells, and
the wall above torn by ten bombshells, and
the wall on the right side deiaced and
scraped and plowed and gullled by all styles
OF long reaching wcaponry. Let the words
cashmere gate as synonym for pat
riotism and fearlessness and self sacrifice.
go into all history, ail art. all litera-
ture. all time, all eternity Ny friends.
that kind OF courage sanctifed will yet take
the whole earth for God. Indeed, tho mis-
sionaries now Mt Delhi, toilng amid heathen-
ism and fever and cholera. and far away
from home aud comfort. and staying there
until they drop into their graves, are Just as
brave In taking u ,lhi for Christ a. were
ing Debit for Great Britain. Take this for
the first sermonic lesson.
Another thing you must see II you go 10
Delhi, though you leave many things un-
seen. Is the palace OF the moguls II Is an
inclosure 1000 yar ls by 800. You enter through
"A vaulted hall nearly 400 feet hong. Floors
OF Florentine mosaic and walls onco en-
eraided and sapphired and carbunclei and
diamonded. said TO the guide, "Show us
where once stood the peacock throne"
Here II was" he responded. All the
thrones OF the earth put together would
not equal that for costliness aud brilliance.
II had steps OF silver, and the seat and arms
were OF solid gold. II cost about $3.50, ,000,-
900. II stood between two peacocks. the
feathers and plumes OF which were fashioned
out OF colored stones. Above the throne
was n life size parrot cut out of one en-
erald. Above all was o canopy resting on
twelve columns OF gold, the canopy iringei
with pearls. Seated here, the emperor
on public occasions wore crown con-
tanning. among other things the kohinoor
diamond, and tho entire blaze OF coronet
cost si0. $50, 900. This superb and once al
most supernaturnlly beautiful room has i'm
bedded In the white marble wall letters OF
black marble, which wero translated TO me
from Persian into English as meaning;
II on the earth there be an Eden OF bliss,
That place is this, Is this, Is this, Is this.
But the peacocks that stool beside the
throne have flown away taking all the dis
plny with them, and those white marble
floors were reddened with slaughter. and
those bathrooms ran with blood. aud that
Eden OF which the Persian couplet on the
walls spake has had its flowers wither and
its fruits decay, and thought while look
ing at the brilliant desolation ani stanilag
amid the vanished glorles OF that throne
room that some one had better change u
hat .,nuplnt ha ali md
mako 1t road
II there be place where much you miss,
p.s. 80. - .n,r, - .u.s, - suls.
As I came out OF the pala,e into the street
OF Delhi, I thought to myself paradises are
not built out OF stone are not cut In sculp-
ture are not painted on walls are not fash
iQned out OF precious stones do not spray the
cheek with fountains do not offer thrones
or crowns. Paradises are built out OF RI
lures uplifted and ennobled, and what
architects compass may not sweep, aud
sculptor's cbisel may not cut, and paintcr'sj
Psas aS nay ay nG' oa, chs srs
achieve, and u the beert be rlsnt ali is right.
ana u tne heart os wrong all Is wrong. Here
enaeth tie second lesson.
- -Dht will not yet allow you to leave Delhi.
The third thing you must see, or never admit
that you have been In India. Is the mosque
called Iumms Musjld. II is the grandest
mosque ever saw except ST. Sophia at Con-
stantinople, tut II surpasses that la some
respects, for ST. Sophia was originally a
Christian church and changed into n mosque,
while this OF Delhi was originally built for
the Moslems.
As entered 1000 or moro Mohammedans
were pros,rated in worship. There nre
times when 5000 may be seen here in the
same attitude. Each stone OF the floor is
tlrnn feet lone hy and "A hnlf Wide y 4
each worshiper has one Of these slabs for
himself while kneeling. The erection OF
this building required 5000 laborers for six
years What built up immenslty OF white
marble aud red sandstone! We descended
the forty marble steps'by which We ascen !ei
and took another look at this wonder OF the
world
As thought what brain the architect
must have had who first built that mosque
In his own imagination, and as | thought
what an opuent ruler that must have been
who gave the order for such vastness and
symmetry, | was reminded OF that which
perfectly explained all. The architect who
planned this was the same man who
planned tho Tnj-namely, Austin de Bor-
deau-and the king who ordered the mosque
constructed Was tho king who ordered
tho Tai namely, Shah Jehan. As this
grand mogu ordered built the most
splendid palace for the dead when he
uutlt tne la NJ Agra. Ee mere Orlerel Dullt
the most splendid palace OF worship for the
living at Delhi. See here what sculpture
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
this life, but their work lives and bids lair
10 stand until the continents crack open, and
hemispheres 70 down, and this planet show
ers other worlds with its ashes.
/ rejoice iu all these bic buildings VII ether
dedicated TO Mohammei or Brahmg or Bud.
dha or Coniucius or Zoroaster, because as
ST. Sophia at Constantinople was Il Christian
church 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 and China and Japan are
ransonod, as We all believe they will be-
their religious structures will all be con-
verted into Christian asyums. and Christian
schools, and Christian libraries. and Chris
tian churches. Built NJ the expense OF su-
perstition and sin. they will yet be dedicated
TO the Lord Almighty. Here endeth the
third lossC n.
Az TINT niQht we too,. ihe raiIrol train