The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-01-11

teese slabs for himself while kneeling.
The erection of this building required
5000 laborers for six years. It is on
plateau ef rock; has four towers rising
lar into the heavens; three great gate
ways inviting the world to come in and
honor the memory OF the prophet of
many wives, - doF1es, with spires gold
tihbed, and six minaretS. What
built up immensely of white marble
and red sandstone? We descend the 40
marble steps by which we assembled
and took another look st this wonder
of the world,
As thought what q brain the arrcht.
teet niuat have Had whe arst built that
mosque IN His own imagination, and as
| thought what an opulent ruler that
must have been who gave the order for
such vastness and :, rmmetrv, was re-
minded of that wntsh Perfectly ex-
planned all. TR6 architect who plan
ned this was the same man who PLAN
ned the, Taj-namely, Austin de Bor.
deau-aHd the king who 5fdered the
mosdus constructed was the king who
ordered the Taj-namely, Shxh Jehan.
AS this grand mogul ordered blilt the
most splendid palace for the dead when
he built the Tai at Agra; he here or
deved built 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 Jehah
quit this life; bot their work lives and
BIDS fair to stand until the continents
crack open; and hemispheres GO down;
and this planet showers other worlds
With its ashes.
1 rejoice in all these big buildings,
whether dedicated to Mohammed or
Brahma or Buddha or Confucius or ZJs
rooster, because as St. Sophia at Cons
stantinop1e twas d Christiah church
changed inte in6Sdue 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 ransbmed, as I'VE all believe they
will be, their religious structures will
all be converted into Christian asylums
and Christian schools and Christian lis
braries and Christian churches. Built
at the expense of superstition and sin,
they will yet be dedicated to the Lord
Almighty. Here endeth the third
lesson:
AS that night we took the railroad
train from the Delhi station and rolled
out thi4tugh the city now living over
the vaster cities buried under this an!
cient capital, cities under cities, and
our travelling servant had unrolled our
bed, which consisted of rug and two
blankets and a pillow, and as we were
worn out with tile sightseeing of the
daS, and were roughly tossed on that
uneven Indian railway, L soon fell into
troubled sleep, in which l saw and
heard in confused way the scenes and
sounds of the mutiny of 1857, which at
Delhi we had been re60untiflg; and now
the rattle of the train seemed to turn
into the rattle of musl1etry, and now
the light at the top of the ear deluded
me with the idea of burning city;
and then the loud thuinp of the rails
road brake was in dream mistaken for
a booming battery, and the voices at
tbs different stations made me think I
heard the loud cheer of the British at
the taking of the Cashmere gate, and as
we rolled over bridges the battle be-
fore Delhi seemed going on, and as we
went through dark tuhhels / seemed
10 see the tomb of Humayun III
which the king of Delhi
was hidden, and in my dreams /
saw Lieut.. Kenny OF the artillery
throwing shells which were hand
ed to him; their fuses burning, ard
Campbell and Reid and Hope Grant
covered with blood, and Nicholson
falling while rallying OH the wall his
watering troops; and saw dead regi'
ment fall across dead regiment, and
heard the 1ataplan of the hoOfs Of
HUdgsons horse, and the dash of the
Bengal artillery and the stofIning by
the immortal fourth column, and tie
rougher the Indian railway became
and the darker the night grew the
more the scenes that ! had been study
ing at Delhi came on me like an incu'
bus: But the morning began to look
through the wiRd6w of orr iolting rail
car, and the sunlight poured in on my
pillow, and in my dreams saw the
bright eolors Of the English flag hoisted
the Moslem had waved, and the voices
of the wounded and dying seemed to be
exchanged for tie Voices that well
coined soldiers home again.
And as the morning light got bright
err and brighter, and in my dream 1
mistook the bells at Il station for q
church bell hanging in n rninaret.
where M6hamtnedan priest had tnum'
bled his call TO prayer, I seemed To
hear a chant, whether by human or an
gelie voices in my dream / could not
tell, but it was Ehaht about peace
and good will to men" And as tho
speed of the rail train slackened the
motion of the car became so easy as we
Fooled d16hg the track that it seemed
to me that all the distress and cohtroA
versy and jolting and wars of the world
had ceased, and id my dream / thought !
we had come to the time when "ths |
ransomed of the Lord shall return and |
come to Zion with songs and everlast. |
ing Joy upon their heads and sorrow
and signing shall fee away"
Tho Gala