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with the deep gouges in the brick wall OF
the left side made by two bombshells, AND
the wall above torn BY ten bomosneils, anc
the wall on the right side defaced an6
scraped and plowed and quilted by all styles
OF long reaching weaponry. Let the words
s'Cashmere gate," as synonym for pat
riotism and fearlessness and self sacrifice,
go Into all history, all art. all 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, 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 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 see II you go to
Delhi, though you leave many things un-
seen, is the palace OF the moguls. It Is an
inclosure 1000 yards by 500. You enter through
q vaulted hall nearly 400 feet long. Floors
OF Florentine mosaic and walls once en-
eralded and sapphired and carbuncled and
diamonded. said to the guide, "Show US
where once stood the peacock throne"
"Here it was" he responded, All the
thrones of the earth put together would
It had steps Of silver, and the seat and arms
were Of solid gold. It cost about sl5O, ,00O,- :
600. It stood between two peacocks, the
feathers and plumes Of which were fashioned
out of colored stones. Above the throne
was life size parrot cut out Of one en-
srald. Above all was canopy resting on
.welve columns of gold, the canopy frtn8ed
with pearls. Seated here, the emperor
On public occasions wore crown con-
aiming, among other things, the kohinoor
diamond, and the entire blaze of coronet
lost $40, 900. This superb and once al
most supernaturally beautiful room has Inn
5edded In the white marble wall letters OF
black marble, which were translated to me
from Persian into English as meaning;
II on the earth there 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
doors 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 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 q
little that Persian couplet on the wall and
make 1t read:
II there be place where much you miss,
That place Is this, Is this, Is this. is this.
AsI came out OF the palace into the street
Of Delhi, I thought to myself paradtses are
not built out of stone are not cut In sculp-
ture are not painted on walls are not fash
loied out of precious stones do not spray the
cheek with fountains; do not offer thrones
DR. crowns. Paradises are built out OF ma
lures uplfted and ennobled, and what
architects compass may not sweep, and
sculptor's chisef may not cut, and painters
pencil may not sketch, and gardeners skill
may not lay out the grace OF God can
achieve, and II the, heart be right all Is right.
and II the heart be wrong all Is wrong. Here
endeth the second lesson. a
But 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 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 q
Christien church and changed into mosque,
while this of Delhi was originally built for
the Moslems. N@a "
As entered 1000 or more Mohammedans
were prostrated In worship. There are
times when 5000 may be seen here in the
same attitude. Each stone Of the floor ts
three feet long by one and hall wide, and
each worshiper has one Of these slabs for
himself while kneeling. The erection OF
this building required 5000 laborers for six
years. What built up immensity OF white
marble and red sandstoneI We descended
the forty marble steps by which we assembled
and took another look at this wonder Of the
world.
As thought what brain the architect
must have had who first built that mosque
in his own Imagination, and as thought
what an opulent ruler that must have been
who gave the order for such yastness and
symmetry, was reminded Of that which
perfectly explained all. The architect who
planned this was the same man who
planned the Taj-namely, Austin de Bor-
deau-and the king who ordered the mosque
constructed was the king who ordered
the Taj-namely, Shah Jehan. As this
grand mogul ordered built the most
splendid palace for the dead when he
built the Tai at Agra. he here ordered built
the most splendid palace OF worship for the
living at Delhi. See here what sculpture
and architecture can accomplish. They link
together the centuries. They successfully
DEFY time. Two hundred and eighty years
ago Austin de Bordeau and Shah Jehan quit
this life, but their work lives and bids fair
to stand until the continents crack open, and
hemispheres 20 down, and this planet show
ers other worlds with its ashes.
Irejoice in all these big buildings. whether
dedicated to Mohammed or Brahma or Bud
dha or Confucius or Zoroaster, because as
St. Sophia at Constantinople was Christian
church changed into mosque and will yet
be changed back again, 80 all the mosques
and temples of superstition and sin will yet
be turned into churches. When India
and Ceylon and China and Japan are
ransomed, as We all believe they will be-,
their religious structures will all be con-
verted into Christian asylums, and Christian
schools, and Christian libraries, and Chris
tian churches. Built at the expense OF su-
perstition and sin, they will yet be dedicated
to the Lord Almighty. Here endeth the
third lesst n.
As that night 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
want had unrolied our bed, which consisted
OF rug and two blankets and a pillow and as
day, and were roughly tossed on that uneven
Indian railway, soon fell into q troubled
sleep, In which saw and heard In con-
fused way the scenes and sounds OF the
mutiny OF 1857, which at Delhi we had been
recounting, and now the rattle Of the train
seemed to turn into the rattle Of musketry,
and now the light at the top Of the car de-
luded me with the idea OF q burning city,
and then the loud thump OF the railroad
brake was In dream mistaken for q
booming battery, and the voices at the diff
ierent stations made me think heard the
loud cheer of the British at the taking OF
the Cashmere gate, and as we rolled over
bridges the battles before Delhi seemed
going on, and as we went through dark tun-
nels seemed to see thetomb OF Huuayun in
which the King OF Delhi was hidden, and In
my dreams I saw Lieutenant Kenny OF