Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-11

fell inscribed thereon. That English lord,
who had seen courage on many battlefield,
visited this Cashmere gate and felt that the
men who opens1 it with the loss OF
their own lives ought to be commemo-
rated and hence this cenotaph. But, after
all, the best monument is the gate fsel1,
with the deep gouges in the brick wall Oh
the LETT side made by two bombshells, and
the VIII above torn by ten bombshells, and
the WI On the right size defaced and
scraped and plowed and quilted by all styles
oflong reaching weaponry. Let the WORDS
Cashmere gate" AZ a synonym for pat
riotism and fearlessness and self sacrifice,
go into all history, all art. all lite.a-
ture, all time, all eternity My frlends,
that kind OF courage s9nctifed will yet take
the whole earth for Cod. Indeed, the mis-
sionaries now at Delhi, toiling amid heathen-
ism and fever and cholera, and far away
from home and comfort, and staying there
until they drop into their graves, are just as
brave in taking D hi for Christ as were
Nicholson and Homo and Carmichael in tax
ing Delhi for Great Britain. Take this Tor
the first sermOnic lesson.
Another thing you must see If you go 10
Delhi, though you leave many things un-
seen, is the palace ofthe moguls. 1t ls an
inclosure 1000 yar Is by 500. You enter through
a vaulted hall nearly 40G feet long. Floors
of Florentine mosaic and walls once en-
GRADED and sapphired and carounciei and
diamonded. I said to the guide, 'ohoW US
where once stood the peacock throne.
"Here it was he responded, All the
thrones of the earth put together would
not equal that for cOstliness and brllliance.
1t had steps of silver, and the seat and arms
were of solid gold. It cost about $3.50, OO0,-
600. 1t stood between two peacocks, the
feathers and plumes of which were fashloned
out of colored stones. Above the throne
was life size parrot cut out OF one en-
.raId. Above all was canopy resting on
ooI,, Nf rrNlI hn
with pearls Seated here, the emperor
On public occasions wore crown con-
aiming, among other things, the hohlnoor
diamond, and the entire blaze OF coronet
cost $40 $50, 00O This superb and once al
most supernaturally beautiful room has I'M
oedded in the white marble wall letters OF
black marble, which were translated to me
irozl Persian into English as meaning;
If on the earth there be an E len 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 dls-
| Dlay with them, and those White marol9
| hoOrs were reddened with slaughter. ana
| hose bathrooms ran with blood, and that
| Eden of which the Persian couplet on the
| walls spake has had its flowers wither and
It's fruits decay, and thought while look
Ing at the brilliant desolation and standing
| amid the vanished glories of that throne
| room that some one had better change a
|
| make it read:
| II there be a place where much you miss,
That place is this, is this, is this. is this.
AS came out of the palace into the street
| of Delhi, l thought 10 myself paradlses are
not built out of stone; are not cut IN sculp-
| ture are not painted on walls are not 1asn-
oned out ofprecious stones do not spray the
| cheek with fountains do not offer thrones
DR. 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 palnter
pencil may not sketch, and gardeners ski
| may not lay out the grace OF God can
achieve, and if the heart be right all is right.
and ii the heart be wrong all is wrong. Here
endeth the second lesson.
But I 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 Iumma Musiid. 1t is the grandest
mosque ever saw except ST. Sophia at Don
stantinople, but it surpasses that In some
| respects, for st. Sophia was originally
Christien church and changed into mosque
while this of Delhi was originals built to
the Moslems.
AS entered 1000 or more Mohammedans
we're prostrated in worship. There arr
times when 5000 may be seen here in th'
same attitude. Zach stone OF the floor
three feet long by one and a half wide, an
each worshiper has ono of these slabs TO
himself while knceling. The erection o
this building required 5000 laborers for 81:
years. What built up immensely OF Whlt
marble and red sandstone! We descende'
the forty marble steps by which we aseende
and took another look at this wonder of tn
world.
AS I thought what a brain the architec
. must have had who first built that mosqu
in his own imagination, and as l though
| what an opulent ruler that must have pee
who gave the order for such yastness an
symmetry, I was reminded of that wh1c
perfectly explained all. The architect Wn
planned this was the same man VII
planned the Tai-namely, Austin de Boz
deau-and the king who ordered the mosqu
constructed was the king who ordere
the Tai-namely, Shah Jehan. AS tn
T grand mogul ordered built the mo-
splendid palace for the dead When
t built the Tai at Agra. he here ordered oui
] living at Delhi. See here what scuiptui
2 and architecture can accomplish. They lin
: together the centuries. They successtull
o DEFY time. Two hundred and eighty yeal
a ago Austin de Bordeau and Shan Jenan gu
this life, but their work lives and bids ia
II TO stand until the continents crack open, an
q hemispheres go down, and this planet snow
d ers other worlds with its ashes.
|. Ireioice III all these big buildings. .whethe
dedicated to Mohammed or Brahma or Bu
Il dha or Confuclus or Horoaster, oecau Gh-istio
- - ST, Sophia st Constantincple was Christla
y church changed into mosque and Will
y be changed back again, so all the mosqu
!, and temples of superstition ana SIN VIII
L. be turned into churches. When ina
and Cevlon and China and Japan a
# ransomed. as We all believe they will b
Z, their religious structures will all be co
:, yerteG into Christian asylums, and Chrlstlf
schools, and Christian libraries, and Chr
. tian churches. Built at the expense OF
. perstitiou and sin. they will yet be dedloat
- 10 the Lord Almighty. Here end9th t
a third lesst n. -
- from the Delhi station and rolled o
,. through the city now living over the vast
- cities buried under this ancient captt
- - cities under cities, and our travelling st
y want had unrolled our bed, which consist
,. of a rug andtwo blankets and a pillow.and
% we were worn out with the sightseeing OH
~ day, and were roughly tossed ON thar uneT
=, Indian railway, soon fell into a troupi
" sleep, in which saw and heard IN co
10 fused way the scenes and SOUNDS OF
~ ~ mutinv Of 1857, which at Delhi we had be
u u recounting, and now the rattle OF the ira
'n seemed to turn into the rattle of musketl
- and now the light at the top OF the car c
~ ~ luded me with the idea Of a burning eli
= and then the loud thump OF the railro
- brake was in dream mistaken Tor
~ booming battery. and the voices at the
=, ferent stations made me think l heard t
no loud cheer of the British at the taking
g. Iethe Cashmere gate, and as we rohed oN
TX bridges the battles oelore Deiht Sc. =,
IA going on, and as we went through dark II
i0 nels seemed to see thetOmb OF Humayun
n which the King of Delhi was hidden, and
lr- nv dreams | saw Lieutenant Kenny
ke the artillery throwing shells which W
nd BANDED to him. their fuses burning, a
al Campbell and Reid and Hope Grant cover
're with blood and Nicholson falling While
ng living on the wall his wavering troops an
OF saw dead regiment fallen across dead re
ne mert. and heard the rataplan OF the no
m Of Hodgson's horse. an d the dash OF
mp Bengal r. artillery. and the storming by the
pre- mortal fourth column. and the rougher
iI1 Indian railway became ana the uarker N
W. had been studying at Delhi came on me
M - ;aa,1b,g Rut the morning began to Il