Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-11
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S sun
DAY SERMON.
Subject: "Palaces in India"

TEXT: ''Who store uD violence and rob-
berry in their palaces. Amos ill.,. 10.
IN this day, when vast sums OF money
are being given for the redemption of In
dia. | hopo TO increase the interest in that
great country and at the same time draw
for all classes of our people practical les
sons, and SO I present this fifth sermon in
the ronn0 the world series. We step into
the ancient capital OF India, the mere pro-
nunciation OF its name sending thrill
through the body, mind and soul of all
those who have ever read its stories of
splendor and disaster and prowess-Delht.
Before the first historian impressed his
first word in clay, or cut his first word on
marble, or wrote his first word on pepyrus,
Delhi stool in India, contemporary of
Blbylon and Nineveh. We know that Delhi
existed longer before Christ's time than we
live after His time. Delhi is built on the
ruins OF seven cities, which ruins cover forty
miles, with wrecked temples, broken
fortresses, split tombs, tumble down palaces
and tie debris OF centuries. An arch8ologist
could probably spen his life here talking
with the past through its lips of venerable
masonry.
There are a hundred things here you
ought to see in this city of Delhi, but three
things YOU must see. The first thing want
cd to see was the Cashmere gate, for that
was the point at which the most wonderful
deed OF daring which the world has ever
seen was done. That was the turning point
of the mutiny of 1857. A lady at Delhi put
into my hand an oil painting of about eight
cen inches square, a picture we'll executed.
hut chiefly valuable for what 1t repre-
sented. 1t was a scene from the time or
mutiny; two horses at full run, har,
messed to n carriage in which were four
persons. She said: "Those persons on
the front side are my father ant mother
The youn; lady on the back seat hold
ing in her arms baby OF year was
my older sister, and tho baby was N.Y.
sol' My mother, who is down with
fever in the next room, painted -fat
years agr. The horses are in full run
because we are fleeing for our lives. My
mother is driving, for the reason that father,
standing up in the front of his carriage, had
| to defend us with his gun, as you there see.
| He fought our way out and on for many q
mile shooting down the sepoys as we went.
| We had somewhat suspected trouble and
| had become suspicious Of our servants. A
| prince had requested private interview
with my father, who was editor OF the
| Delhi Gazette. The prince proposed to
| come veiled, so that no one might recog-
| nize him, but my mother insisted on being
| present and the interview did not take
| place. A large fish had been sent to our
| family and four other families. the pr- "r
| an offering of thanks for the Kings recovery
| from a recent sickness. But we suspected
| poison and did not eat the fish.
| zone day all our servants came up and SAID
| they must go and see what was the matter.
| We saw what was intended and knew tnat II
| the servants returned they would murder all
| of us. Things grew worse and worse until
| this scene of flight shown you in the picture
took place. You see, the horses were wild
with fright. This was not only because OF
the discharge of guns, but the horses were
| struck and pounded by sepoys, and ropes
were tied across the way, and the savage
halloo and the shout of revenge made oil the
way of our flight horror"
| The books have fully recorded the hero
ism displayed at Delhi and approximate
regions, but made no mention of this lam
ily of Wagentreibers whose flight am men
tioning. But the Madras Atheneum printed
this
"And now! Are not the deeds of the Wag
entreibers, though he wore round nat anC
she crinolne, as worthy of imperlshabi'
verse as those Of the heroic pair whose nup
tiaIs graced the court of Chariemagne!
more touching picture than that OF the
| brave man contending with we'll nervef
arm against the black ami threatening 1at
impending over his wife and chlld W
have never seen. Here was no STRIFE 1or th'
glory of physical prowess or the spoh
shining arms, but q conquest OF the nuna'
mind, an assertion Of the powers OF lntellee
over the most appalling array OF clrcun
stances that could assatl q human being
Men have become gray in front OF sudden an
unexpected peril, and in ancient days 8
much was courage mater o! Aeioi
and mere instinct that we read IN lni
mortal verse of heroes struck with PAM
and fleeing before the enemy. But the saV
age sepoys, with their hoarse warcry an
swarming like wasps around the wagon
trtebers struck no terror into the praV
mans heart His heroism was not the mer
ebullition of despair, but, like that OF M
wife, calm and Understanding uprlSh1 tna
he might use his arms better"
Asan incident will sometimes more IN
press one than a generality Of statement.
present the flight of this one family 1ror
Delhi merely to Illustrate the desperalon I
the times, The fact was that the sepoys ma
taken possession of the city OF Delhls an
they were, with all their artillery, fghtln
back the Europeans who We're on tne gu gu
side and numbering all the Europeans WI
were inside. The city OF penn nas
crenulated wall on three sides, wa
flveand half miles long, and the fourth SIDE
the city is defended by the River Jumna.
addition to these two defenses OF wall al
/ water there were 10000 sepoys. all arme
Twelve hundred British soldiers were I
take that city. Nicholson, the lmmort
q General, commanded them, ana you "q y
visit his grave before you leave DEM. 1
i. fell leading his troops. He commana'
y them even after being mortally Wounde
a You will read this inscription on his TOM
TJohn Nicholson, who led the assault
> Delhi, but fell in the hour OF victor
mortally wounded, and died 23d Septemoe
1857, aged thlrty-nV6 years
With what guns and men General Ntchc
son could muster he had laid siege TO tn
walled city filled with devils. Wnat 1eari
odds! Twelve hundred British troops III
covered by any military works, to take
city surrounded by firm and high masonr
on the top of which we're ia guns and q
Tended by 40 900 foaming sepoys. A larg
percentage of troops fell here than
any great battle 1 happen to know OF. 1
Crimean percentage OF the fallen was A'.4
81 Dn1hi wa
that city must be taken, and it can only
taken by such courage as had never peen
corded in all the annals OF bloodsheu: EVE
charge of the British regiments against
walls and gates had been beaten back. L
hyenas OF Hindooism and Mohammedanp
howled over the walls, and the Engi
army could do nothing but bury their o.
dead But at this gateI stand ana Wat
an exploit that makes the page OF hlstc
tremble with agitation. E.
This city has ten gates, but the most Id
ous is the one before which we now stan
and it is called Cashmere gate Wrlte
"a words in red ink because OF the caRnas a.
in Write them in letters of light for the III
W trious deeds. Write them III letters OF ola
~, for the bereft and the dead. Will the Wo
Or aver forget that Cashmere gate? Lieut.
u ants Salkeld and Home and Sergeants b
!. CESS Carmichael and Smith offered to te
bags OF powder to the foot OF that gate
set them on fire, blowing open the gate,
though they must ulo LII uo4AS H. -
- thew 90 lust after SUNRISE each one carry
sack containing twenty-four pounds
. powder, and doing this under the fire OF
enemy. :.
. Lieutenant Home was the first to lu
II into the ditch, which still remains Del
he gate. AS they go, one by one falls un
. the the Shot and shell. One of the mort'
wounded as he falls hands his sack of p'
der with box of lucifer matches to
other, telling him to fire the sack, WI
hat
y, twenty miles around. part of the Cashm
gate was blown into fragments. and
bodies OF some of these heroes were
scat+ara6 they were never gathered for Fl