The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1895-01-02

lnanded them, and you must visit his
grave before you leave DELHI He fell
leading his troops. He commanded
them after being mortally wounded. |
You will read this inscription on his
tomb.
John Nicholson, who led the as
sault of Delhi, but fell in the hour of |
victory, mortally wounded, and died
G3d September, 1857, aged S5 years.
With the guns and men Gen. Mich
olson could muster he had laid siege
to this walled city filed with devils.
What fearful odds! Twelve hundred
British troops uncovered by any
military works, to take city sur
rounded by firm and high masonry, on
the top of which were ia guns and de-
Tended by 10000 foaming Sepoys. A
larger percentage of troops fell here
than in any great battle ! happen to
know of. The Crimean percentage of
the fallen was IT, 4s, but the percentage
of Delhi was 37.9 Yet that city must
be taken. and it can only be taken by
such courage as had never been record
ed in all the annals of bloodshed.
This city has ten gates, but the most
famous is the one before which we now
stand, and it is called Cashmere gate.
Write the words in red ink becAuse OF
the carnage, Write them in letters of
light for. the illustrious deeds, Write
them in letters of black for the bereft
and the dead viii the. world ever
forget that Cashmere gate? Lieut..
Salkeld and Home aud Sergts. Bur-
CESS, Carmichael and Smith offered to
take bags of powder to the foot of that
gate and set them on fire, blowing open
the gate, although they must die in
doing it. There they go just after
sunrise, each one carrying a sack con-
tanning "a pounds of powder, and doing
this under the fire of the enemy.
Lieut.. Home was the first to jump
into the ditch. which still remains be-
fore the gate. AS they go, one by one
falls under the shot and she'll. One of
the mortally wounded as he falls
hands his sack Of powder with a box of
lucifer matches to another, telling him
to fire the sack, when, with an explo-
sion that shook the earth for 90 miles
around, part Of the Cashmere gate was
blown to fragments, and the bodies of
some of these heroes were so scattered
they were never gathered for funeral
or grave or monument. The British
army rushed in through the broken
gate, and although six days of hard
fighting were necessary before the city
was in complete possession the crisis
was past. The Cashmere gate open,
the capture of Delhi and all it con-
tanned of palaces and mosques and
treasures was possible.
Lord Napier, of Magdala, of whom
Mr.. Gladstone spoke to me so affection
ately when was his guest at Haward-
en-, Eng, has lifted monument near
this Cashmere gate, with the names Of
the men who there fell inscribed there
on. That English lord, who had seen
courage on many battlefield, visited
this Cashmere gate and felt that the
men who opened it with the loss of
their own lives ought to be commemo-
GRATED, and hence this cenotaph. But,
after all, the best monument is the
! gate itself, with the deep gouges
in the brick wall on the left
side made by two bonn bshells,
and the wall above torn by ten bomb
shells. and the wall on the right
side defaced and scraped and plowed
and quilted by all styles of long reach.
ing weaponry. Let the words Cash.
mere gate" as synonym for patriot
ism and fearlessness and self sacrifice
60 into all history, all art, all litera.
ture, all time, all eternityl My friends
that kind of courage sanctified will YET
take the whole earth for God. Indeed
the missionaries now at Delhi, toiling
amid heathenism and fever and chol
era. and far away from home and com
fort, and staying there until they droI
into their graves, are Just as brave il
taking Delhi for Christ as were Nichol
son and Home and Carmichael in TAX
ing Delhi for Great Britain. Take thi!
lOT ILG lIoI lCSSOhs
Another thing you must see if you gc
to Delhi, though you leave many
things unseen, is the palace of the mo
guls. 1t is an inclosure one Thousand
yards by five hundred. You enteI
through vaulted hall nearly fou
hundred feet long. Floors of Floren
tine mosaic and walls once emeraldet
and sapphired and carbuncled and dia
monded. said to the guide: SHOW u
where once stood the peacock throne.
"nsgo it was" he responded. All tn
thrones of the earth put togethe
would not equal that for costlines
and brilliance. 1t had steps of sil
yer, and the seat and arms were o
solid gold. 1t cost about $150 600, 0OC
1t stood between two Teacocks
the feathers and plumes of whic
were fashioned out of colore
stones. Above the throne was
life size parrot cut out of one emerald
Above all was canopy resting on l
columns Of gold. the canopy fringe
with pearls Seated here, the empero
on public occasions wore a crown cor
tanning, among other things, the Kol
moor diamond, and the entire blaze {
coronet cost $40, ,35O,OOO This super
and once almost supernaturally bea'
tiful room has imbedded in the whit
marble wall letters Of black marbl
which were translated to me from Pc
sian into English as meaning:
II on earth there be an Eden OF bliss,
That place is this, is this, is this, is this.
But the peacocks that stood besit
the throne have flown away, taking a
the display with them, and those whi
marble floors were Redeemed wit
slaughter, and those bath rooms re
with blood, and that Eden Of which Il
,.o..,aw oonUlat on tho xvalla a,,a