Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-01-07

doorkeepors leaning on soulpturcd devils.
How stfangel But have seen doorkocp.
ers of churches and audltorums who
seemed to he leaning ON tho demons Of
bad ventilation and asPbyxia. Doofkcop-
ers ought TO DO leaning on the angels OF
health and comfort and life. All the Sex
tons and innitors Of the earth who have
spoiled sermons and lectures and poisoned
tho lungs Of audiences by inefllcicncy
ought to visit this cave OF Elephanta and
beware OF what these doorkeepors are do
ing, when instead Of leaning on the m
gelio they lean ON the demonao In these
Elcphanta caves everything is on sam
soninn and Titanian scale With chsels
that were dropped from neryeless hands at
least eight centuries ago the forms Of the
gods Brabma and Nishnu and silva were
cut into the everlasting rock silva Is
here represented by figure 10 feet o
Inches high, ono.hulf man and one.hnlf
woman. Run a line from tho contbr Of
the forehead straight TO tho floor Of tho
rock, and you divide this idol into mascu-
limo and feminine. Admired as this idol
Is by many, 1t was to me about the worst
thing that was ever cut into purphyry,
perhaps because there Is hardly anything
on earth so Objectionable as a being half
man and half woman. D1bcone or othor
my hcarer, Man is admirable, and wom-
an is admirable, but either in flesh or trap
rock a compromise Of the two is hideous
Save us from eifeminutc men and mascu.
line women.
Gods and Goddssses.
Yonder Is the King Ravana worshiplng
Yondor is the sculpturcd representation OF
the marriage of SILVA and Parhati Yon-
der Is Daksha, the son of Brahmn, born
from the thumb OF his right hand He
had 60 daughters Seventeen of those
daughters were married to Kasyapa and
became the mothers Of the human race.
Yonder is god with three heads The
center god has n crown wound with neck.
lacos Of skulls. The right hand god Is in
n paroxysm Of rage, with forehead OF
snakes, and In its hand is cobra. The
loft hand god has pleasure IN all Its fca
lures, and the hand has a flower But
there are gods and goddesses in all diroo-
lions. The chief temple Of this rock Is
1870 feet square and has 20 pillars rising
to tho root. After the conquerors of other
lands and the tourists from all lands have
Clipped and dcfactd and blasted and car
rled away ourios and memontos for mu-
seums and homes there arc enough en-
tranocments left to detain one, unless he
Is cautious, until he Is down with some
uf the malHrias which encompass this IL.
land or get bitten with some of its snakes.
Yes, l felt tho chilly dampness of the
place and left this congress Of gods, this
pandemonlum Of demons, this pantheon
Of Indifferent dCitlos, and came 20 tho
steps and looked OF upon the waters which
rolled and flashed around tho steam yacht
that was waiting to return with us to
Bombay. AS VIC stepped aboard, our minds
filled with the idols Of the Elcphanta caves.
was impressed as never before with tho
thought that man must have religion Of
some kind, even II lo has TO contrivC one
himself, and he must have god, even
though he mike IL with his own hand. 1
rejoice to know the day will come when
tho ono God Of the universe win be aG-
knowledgod throughout India,
Back to Christianity.
That evening OF cur return to Bombay
visited the Young Mems Christian as.
ISOLATION, with tho same appointments
that you find in tho Young Mems Chris
tian associations of Europe and America,
and the night after that addressed
throng of native children who are in the
schools OF the Christian missions. Chris
tian universities gather under their wing
of bencdiotion host Of tho young men Of
this country. Bombay and Calcutta tho
two great commercial cities of India, feel
the elevatng power of an aggressive Chris
tianity, Episcopalian liturgy and Presby
tgIiIn Westminster CatUohism and Methu-
dist anxious seat and Baptist waters OF
conservation now stand where once bnsest
idolutries had undisputcd sway. Tho
work which Shoemaker Carey inaugural
cd at Sorampore India, translatlng the
Bible into 40 different dialects and leaving
his wornout body amid the natives whom
he had come to sAyo and going up into the
heavens from which he can hottor watch
MI tho feld-that work will be completed
in tho salvation Of tho millions of Inuiu,
and b0sido him, gazing from the same
high places, stand Bishop HebGr and Alex
ander Dun md John Soudder and Mackuy,
who fell at Delhi, and Moncrieff, who fell
ut Cawnpur, and Polohnnipton, who fell
at Lucknow, and Bpuman, who fell ut
Futtigarh, and all heroes and heroinos
who, for Chrigts sake, lived and died for
tho Contamination Of India and their
heaven viii not ho complete until the
Ganges that washes tho CHATS OF hcathen
temples shall IOn between churches of tho
living God, and the tTampled womunhuod
Of Hindooian shall have all the rights
purchased by him who amid the cuts and
stnbs of his own assassination cried out
"Behold thy mothorl" and from Bengal
bay to Arabian ocean and from the Hi.
malayas to the coast Of Coromnndel there
DO lifted hosannas TO him who died TO re-
deem all nations. In that day Elephanta
cave will be ono of the places where idols
arc "cnst to tho molcs and bats. ~
If any Clergyman asks me, as an unbc
lieylng minister Of religion once asked tho /
Duke Of Wellington, "Do you not think
that the work Of converting the Hindoos
ia all practical farce" l answer him rs
Wellington answered the unbclicving min
lister, Look to your marching orders,
sir" Or II any ono having Joined in the /
gospel attack feels like retreatlnR sny to !
him, az General Hayelook said TO a re-
treating regiment "Tho enemy are in |
front, not in tho rear, and leading thom
again into the fight, though two horses
had been shot under him.
a Great Campaign.
Indeed the taking OF this world for |
Christ will DO no holiday celebration, but /
as tremendous as when in India during 4
tho mutiny OF 1867 fortress manned by |
sepoys was to be captured by Sir Colin /
Campbell and Tho hr1ny OF Britain. Tbs
sepoys hurled upon the attacking col
umns burning missiles and grenados and |
Arod On thaf,, shot nn1 shall and t,ourod