Milford chronicle., 1895-01-11

ia ing When instead OF leaning on the an
= eeiic they lean on the demonlac. In these
u Elephanta caves everything is on a Sam
y sOnian and Titanlan scale With chisels
i that were dropped from nerveless hands at
d least eight centuries ago the forms of the
n gods Brahma and Vishnu and silva wegc
u cut into the everlasting rock silva is
s here represented by figure 10 feet Q
n inches high, one-half man and one-half
J. woman Run "A line from the center Of
!. the forehead straight to the floor of the
n rock, and you divide this idol into mascu
: line and feminine Admired as this idol
/ is by many, it was to me about the Worst
I thing that was ever cut into porphyry,
, perhaps because there is hardly anything
, on earth so Objectionable rs q being half
man and half woman. Do be one or other
my hearer Man is admiIaalo and WON
an is admirable, but either in losh or trap
, rock a compromise of the two is hidcuus
Save us from eiiominato men and nlascu
line women,
Gods and Goddesses.
Yonder is the King Ravana worshiping
YOnder is the scul pturol rcprcSa1 tation of
the marriage of SILVA and Parhati. Yon-
der is DaAsha, tine son of Brahma, born |
from the thumb Of his right hand He
had so daughters. Seventeen of those
daughters were married to Kasyapa and /
hcNdAlb Allt AAiNlut Is OF LLt human race. &
Yonder is a god with three heads The |
center god has a crown wound with neck
laces Of skulls. Ihe right hand god is in
a paroxyam Of rage, with for head of
snakes, and in its hand is a cobra. The
left hand god has pleasure in all its fea-
lures, and the hand has a flower But
there are gods and goddesscs in all direc
tions. Tie caiaf temple of this rock is
1870 feet square and has 26 pillars rising
to the roof After the conqucrors Of other
lands and the tourists from all lands have
Clipped and defaced and blasted and car
ried away culius ard memcltOs for mu-
seums and homes there are enough en-
trancements left TO detain one unless he
,is cautious until ho is down with some
Of the malarias which encompass .his is
land or get bitten with some of its snakes.
Yes, 1 felt the chilly dampness of the
place and lcft this congress of gods, this
pandemOnlum Of demons, this pantheon
of indifferent deities, and came to tine !
steps and looked off upon the waters which !
rolled and flashed around the steam yacht l
that was waiting to return with US to {
Bombay As we stepped aboard, our minds s
filed with the idols of the Elephanta caves, s
l was impressed as never before with the
thought that man must have religion Of 6
some kind, even If he has to oontriYe one T
though he make it with his own hand c
rejoice to know the day will come when v
the one God of the universe will be ac- P
knowledged throughout India. Il
Back to Christianity.
That evening of our return to Bombay
l visited the Young Mems Christian as
soCiation, with the same appointments q
that You find in the Young Mems Chris
tian associations Of Europe and America,
and the night after that I addressed a g
throng Of native children who are in the d
schools of the Christian missions Chris u
tian universities gather under their wing .
of benedictiOn a host of the young men of a
this country. Bombay and Calcutta, the v
two great commercial cities Of India, feel 2
the elevatng power of an aggressive Chris a.
tianity. Episcopalian liturgy and Presby ~
terian Westminster catechsm and Metho 4
dist anxious seat and Baptist waters of s.
conservation now stand where once basest a
idOlatries had undisputed sway The Z,
work which Shoemaker Carey inaugural o.
ed at SerGmpore, India, translating the ~
Bible into 40 different dialects and leaving 81
his wornout body amid the natives whoil ue
he had come to save and going up into the "
heavens from which he can better watch q a.
al the ield-that work will be completed ~
in the salvation of the millions of India, az
and beside him, gazing from the same il' iI
high places, stand Bishop Heber and Alex III
ander Duff and John-Scudder and Maekay
who fell at Delhi, and Moncrieff, who fell oN
at Cawnpur, and Polehampton, who fell gli sI
Mt Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at ~ ~
FutHglrh, and all heroes and heroine Va ~
Who for Christs sake, lived and died fol Ul'
-he Christianization Of India and their ~ -
heaven will not be complete until the w
ianges that washes the CHATS Of heathon ~
temples shall roll between churches of the UVi ~,
living God, and the trampled womanhood Oli
# Hindooisn shall have all the rights -
by him who amid the cuts and ~
tabs of his own assassination cried oui, No,
Behold thy mother!" and from Bengal 20
Iay to Arabian ocean and from the Hi ~
nalayas TO the coast of Coromandel there - ~
,e lifted hosannas to him who died to II tll'
leem all nations In chat day Elephanta W
ave will be one Of the places where idols
re cast to the moles and bats " 81 81
If any clergyman asks me- as an unbe-
ieying minister Of religion once asked the 4.
luke Of Wellington, Do you not think A.,
hat the work of converting the Hindoos m m.ui
all practical farcei" l answer him as We
wellington answered the unbelieving min - -
iter Look to your marching orders, O-A
il" Or if any one having Joined in the
Ospel attack feels like rctreating l say to
AAitf Us ONnGAdA AlaNN4Dbh htllQ W a IT.
reating regiment, The enemy are in the
,ont, not in the rear" and leading them wa!
gain into tho fight, though two horses We
ad been shot uBder him. the
A Great Campaign. re
Indeed the taking of this world for nan
hrist viii be no holiday celebration, but al
J tremendous as when in India during ~
le mutiny OF 1857 a fortress manned by Woi
poys was to be captured by Sir Colin hnO
ampbell and the army Of Britain. The !ii'
poys hurled upon the attacking col Ile ,
INNS burning missiles and grenades and anu
red on them shot and she'll and poured nan s II
them from the rampaTts burning oil to a
It'll a writer who witnessed it says, 1T Il
rs a cture of pandemonium j." Then by ,
T Colin addressed his troops, saying, Ind
the women and children must san
rescued, and his men replied Aye, and
e, Sir Colin. We stood by you at Bala- bost
ava and will stand by you here. " And nam
en- came the triumphant assault Of the tbei
ttlemcnts lac
% III 1nls gospei campaign Wnich pro mat
ses capturing the very last citadel of nun
olatry and sin and hoisting over it the tbo
nnor of the cross we may have hurled Thor
ION Us mighty opositiOn and scorn and Qrar
loquy, and many may fall before the and
)rl is done, yet at every call for new Uene
set let the cry Of the church be: Aye mi
e. great captain of our salvation. We favo
,1u Dy thee IN other conillcts, ana we Llev
Il stand Dy thee to the last. And Is 1
sh Il not IN TINS world then from the Free
lyonic fortiileation shall crash into ruin,
will 5oiu in the shout: "Thanks he Nj
to God who giyeth us the victory Hal Colo
utah, for the Lord God omnipotent knoy
gnethl" been
term
As We All Wen Know. mem
Drummer Wbatever t,d,oo5 ~ youn
5 in that limo of necl.tiesS NJ ~ amir