Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1895-01-11

/ the LETT side made by Two DomDSnelIS, anu
| the wall above torn by ten bomoshells, and
| tho wall on the right side deiaced ana
scraped and powed and quilted by all styles
OF long reoching weaponry. Let the words
Cashmere gate" as a synonym for pat
rotism and fearlessness and self sacrifice,
| 90 into all history, all art, Gil htera-
| ture, all time. all eternity! My friends,
that kind OF courage sanctifed will yet take
| the whole earth for God. Indeed, the mis-
| sionaries now at Delhi, tolllng amid heathen-
ism and fever and cholera, and far away
| from homo and comfort, and staying tnere
until they drop into their graves are just as
bravo In taking Delhi for Christ as were
Nicholson and Home and Carmichael In tax
ing Delhi for Great Britain. Take this for
| the first sermonic lesson.
| Another thing you must SOC II you 20 TO
| Delhi, though you leave many things I'M
seen, is the palace OF the moguls. 1t Is an
Enclosure 1000 yards by 500. You enter through
| vaulted hall nearly 400 teet long. Floors
OF Florentine mosaic and walls once en-
Graded and sapphired and carbuncel AMI
diamonded. said to the guide, "Show US
where once stood the peacock throne.
"Here 1t was," he responded, All the
thrones Of the earth put together would
| not equal that for oostliness and brilliance.
Il had steps Of silver, and the seat and arms
were of solid gold. 1t cost about $3.50, 00O,-
900. 1t stood between two peacocks. the
feathers and plumes of which were fashioned
out OF colored stones. Above the throne
was a life size parrot cut out OF one en-
erald. Above all was a canopy resting on
twelve columns Of gold, the canopy fringei
with pearls. Seated here, the emperor
on public occasions wore a crown con-
tanning, among other things, the Kohinoor
Nd fhn aptiro hloza M 0NrOn6f
cost $40 1850, 900. This superb and once al-
most supernaturaIly beautiful room has Inn
bedded In the white marble wall letters OF
| black marble, which were translated to me
| from Persian into English as meaning;
If on the earth thera be an Eden OF bliss,
That place is this, is this, Is this, is this.
But the peacocks that stood beside the
throne have flown away, taking all the dis
| play with them, and those white marble
| floors were Redeemed with slaughter, and
| those bathrooms ran with blood, and that
Eden of which the Persian couplet on the
walls spake has had its flowers wlther and
its fruits decay, and thought while look
ing at the brilliant desolation and standing
| amid the vanished glorles OF that throne
room that some one had better change
little that Persian couDlet on the wall ana
make it read:
II there be place where much you miss,
That place is this, Is this, Is this. is this.
AsIcame out OF the palace iE.o the street
OF Delhi, 1 thought to myself paradises are
not built out Of stone; are rot Get IN SOUP
| ture are not painted on walls are not lash
toned out of precious stones {; do not spray the
| cheek with fountains do not offer thrones
or crowns. Paradises are built out OF ma
lures uplifted and ennobled, and what
! architects compass may not sweep, ana
sculptor's chisel may not cut, and painters
pencil may not sketch, AMI gardeners skill
NAV not lay out the grace OF God can
achieve, and II the heart be right all Is right,
ind il the heart be wrong oil is wrong. Here
endeth the second LESSEN.
But will not yet allow you to leave DEM:
| The third thing you must see, or never admit
| that YOU have been in India, IS the mosque
called Iumma Musjid It is the grandest
mosque ever saw except st. Sophia at Con-
stantinople, but 1t surpasses that In some
RESPECTS. for st. Sophia was originally
! Christiqn church aud changed into mosque,
while this of Delhi was originally built Tor
the Moslems.
AS entered 1000 or moro Mohammedans
were Frustrated in worship. There are
times when 5000 may be seen here IN the
same attitude. Each stone OF the hoor IS
three feet long By one and half Wide, al
each worshiper has one OF these slabs for
himself while kneeling. Tho erection OIL
This building required 5000 laborers for six
wears. What built up immensely OF WHITE
marble and red sandstone! We descended
the forty marble steps by which we ascended
and took another look at this wonder OF the
world.
AS I thought what brain the architect
must have had who first built that mosque
In his own imagination, and as thonght
what an opulent ruler that must have been
who gave the order for such vastness ana
symmetry. I was reminded of that which
PERFECTLY explained all. The architect who
blamed this was the same man who
planned the Tuj-namely, Austin &c Bor'
deau-and the king who ordered the mosque
constructed was the king VINO ordereo
the Tai namely, Shah Jehan. AS this
GRAND mogul ordered built the most
splendid palace for the dead when ne
built the Tai at Agra, he here orlered butt
the most splendid palace OF worship for the
living at Delhi Sec here what sculpture
and architecture can accomplish. They iinR
together the centuries. They successfully
dew time. Two hundred and eighty years
ago Austin dc Bordeau and Shah Jehan qul1
this life, but their work lives and bids fais
10 stand until the continents crack open, ana
hemlspheres 90 down, and this planet show
ers other worlds with Its ashes.
Ireioice in all these big buildings. whether
dedicated 10 Mohamnel or Brahma or Bud
dha or Confucius or Zoroaster, because a
ST. Sophia at Constantinople was Christian
church changed into mosque and WILL yel
be changed back again, so all the mo:quei
and temples OF superstition and sin will yel
be turnel into churches. When lndia
and Ceylon and China and Japan are
ransoned, as We all believe they VIII De-
their religious structures will all be con
iotO Nhricfian ocvuuQ and ClrtSt1NE
schools. and Christian libraries, and Chris.
tian churches. Built at the expense OF SUI
perstition and sin, they will yet be dedicated
TO the Lord Almighty. Here endeth the
third lesst n.
AS that n ght we took the railrod train
from 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.
y!nt had unroled our bed, which consisted
of a rug and two blankets and a pillow,and as
we were worn out with the sightseeing ofthe
day, and were roughly tossed on that uneven
Indian railway, l soon fell into troubled
sleep, in which saw and heard In con-
fusei way the scenes and sounds OF the
mutiny OF 1857, which at Delhi we had been
recountlng, and now the rattle OF the train
seemed to turn into the rattle OF musketry,
anl.now the light at the top Of the car de-
luded me with the idea o: burning city.
and then the loud thumP OF the railroad
brake was in dream mistaken Tor Q
booming battery, and the voices at the dit'
ferent stations made me think heard the
loud cheer Of tho British at the taking o.
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 10 see thetomb OF Humayun IL
which the King o: Debit was hidden, and II