The Penn's Grove record., 1895-01-11

tLOh9t VI AnQ tlOOhf IA INV 49, I
frowei oil the sunlight, and the leaden
trowel OF the storm build and rebuild the
glory, so that 1t never seems twice alike.
1t has all moods, all compilations, all gram
deurs. From the top OF the Tai. which fs
NJ gset high. springs a spire thirty feet
higher, and that Is enameled gold: What
in anthem in eternal rhythm! Lyrics and
elsgtes In marble. Sculptured hosanna.
Masonry as OF supernatural hands. Mighty
doxolo0y In stone. I shall see nothing TO
equal 1t It'll I see the great white throne,
and on It Him from whose face the earth and
heavens nee away.
The Tai Is the pride OF India, and espect
ally OF Mohammedanism. An English OH
cef at the fortress told us that when during
the general mufiny In 1857 the Mohamme-
dams proposed instruction at Agra the Eng
fish Government aimed the guns OF the fort
at the Tai and said, 'sYou make insurrection,
and that same day We will blow your TAI to
atoms, and that threat ended the disposition
for mutiny at Agra.
But Thought while looking at that palacs
Tor the dead all this constructed to cover a
handful of dust, but even that handful has
l probably gone from the mausoleum. HOW
much better II would havs been to expend
1 $50, 900, 900, which the Tai Mahal cost, for the
ttying. What asylums It might have built
for the sick, what houses fots the homeless !
What improvement our century has made
upon other centuries in lifting In honor OF
the departed memorial churches, memorial
/ hospitals, memorial reading rooms, me
moriat observatories. By all possible means
II let us keep the memor OF departed loved
| ones fresh In mind. and let there be al ap-
/ propriate heaastons or monumen in the
| Cemetery, but there Is a dividing line be-
l tween reasonable commemoration and
I wicked extravaganza. The Tai Mahal has
/ its uses as an architectural achievement,
4 eelipsing all other architecture, but as a me-
mortal Of a departed wife and mother II ex-
presses no more than the platnest slab In
many a country graveyard. The best monu-
ment we can any OF us have built for US
when we are gone Is in the memory Of
whose sorrows we nave alleviated, in the
1 wounds we have healed, in the ~kindnes,es
we have done, In the ignorance we have en-
HHShtened, In he recreant We have reclaimed,
In the souls we have saved. Such a monu-
menf is built out Of material more lasting
Than marble or bronze and will stand amid
the eternal splendors long after the Tai Ma
hal B. India shall have gone down In the
ruins of a world Of which 1t was the costliest
adjournment. But l promised TO show you
not only q tomb OF India, but a unique
siheathen temple, and 1t is.a temple UNDER
ground
with miners candle we had seen m
thing Of the underside OF Australia, as at Gin
pie. as with guides torch we had seen at
different times something OF the underslde
OF America, rs in Mammoth cave, but We are
nowsA nsse--one OF the sacred cellars OF
5hly called the Elephanta caves.
TO ourselves, the steam yacht
Axe us about fifteen miles over
iBombay and between enchant-
Id along shores whose curves
and pictured rocks gradually
mind for appreciation OF the
spectacle In India. The morn.
full OF thunder and lightning
It the atmospheric agitations
nd the cloudy ruins OF the
1 up In the heavens, Sugt
KY purple enough to Aakt
candy picturesque as,np'
he wild men Of the for
sS orr town uuder the;
approved Order Of Red MenS
IS Tribe, heavily laden witiit
visions for the evening ansp,,
Jto relieve Il brother, WING
lllealth, is unable to Veins
"necessaries of lie. leia
that probably III l ae5
ching, % Nm;
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