News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-03
In RUINED PALACES.
lev OR. TALMAGE AT THE CITY OF
DELHI, INDIA.

lmong Wrecked Temples, Broken For
tresSes and the Debris of Centuries-At
the Cashmere Gate-The City of Amber.
A Vivid World Picture.
BROOKLYN, Dec. 80. Continuing his
cries of round the world sermons
through the press, Rev. Dr.. Talmago to-
Iay chose for his subject Palaces In
kdia" the text being Amos iii, 10,
who store up violence and robbery in
heir palaces.
In this day, when vast sums of money
ne being giTen for the redemption of
hdia, hope to increase the interest i'll
hat great country and at tho same time
lraw for all classes of our people practi
al lessons, and so l present this fifth
ermon in the round the world series.
Ne step into the ancient capital of
india, the mere pronunciation of its
lame sending thrill through the body,
mind and soul of all those who have ever
cad its stories of splendor and disaster
md prowess-Delhi
Before the first historian impressed
iis first word in clay, or cut his frs
word on marble, or wrote his first word
IN papyrus, Delhi stood in India, d con-
temporary Of Babylon and Nineveh. We
NOW that Delhi existed longer before
Christ's time than we live after his
ime Delhi is built on the ruins of sew
IN cities, which ruins cover 40 miles,
With wrecked temples, broken fortresses,
plit tombs, tumble down palaces and
The debris of centuries An arch8ologist
,ould proftably spend his life here talk
.ng with the past through it's lips Of
venerable masonry.
The Mutiny In India.
There are hundred things here you
ought to see in this city Of Delhi, but
three things you must see. The first
thing | wanted to see was the Cashmere
gate, for that was the point at which
The most wonderful deed of daring
which the world has ever seen was done.
That was the turning point Of the mu
iiny of 1857 A lady at Delhi put into
ny hand an oil painting of about
but chiefly valuable for what it repre-
Iented. 1t was a scene from the time Of
nutiny; two horses at full run, har-
messed to a carriage in which were four
persons. She said: 'phoso persons on
The front side are my father and moth
or. The young i13y On the back seat
holding in her arms a baby of year
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myself. My mother, who is down with
fever in the next room, painted that
years ago. The huraes are in iuii run
because we are fleeing for our lives. Ny
mother is driving, for the reason that
father, standing up il the front Of his
carriage. had to defend us with his gun,
as you there sec. He fought our way
put and on for many a mile, shooting
down the sepOys as we went. We had
somewhat suspected trouble and had be-
come suspicious of our servants. A
prince had requested a private interview
with my father, who was editor of the
Delhi Gazette The prince proposed to
come yelled, so that no one might recog-
nize him, but my mother insisted on be-
ing present, and the interview did not
take place. A large fish had been sent
to our family and four other families,
the present an Offering of thanks for the
kings recovery from recent sickness.
But we suspected poison and did not
eat the fish.
One Cay all our servants came up and
said they must 90 and see what was tho
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and knew that if the servants returned
they would murder all Of us. Things
grew worse and worse until this scene
of flight shown you in the picture took
place. You see, the horses were wild
with fright This was not only Eecause
of the discharge of guns, but the horses
were struck and pounded by sepoys,
and ropes were tied across the way,
and the savage halloO and the shout n
revenge made all the way Of our flight
horror. P"
The Savage Sepoys.
The books have fully recorded the he
roism displayed at Delhi and approx
mate regions but made no mention oS
this family Of Wagentreibcr3 whose
flight am mentioning. But the Madras
Atheneum printed this:
"And now Are not tho deeds of the
Wagentreibers, though he wore round
hat and she crinoline, as worthy CT
imperishable verse as those Of the he
roic pair whose nuptials graced the
court of CharIemagne? A more touch
ing picture than that of the brave man
contending with well nerved arm,
against the black and threatening fate
impending over his wife and child we
have never seen. Here was no strife for
the glory Of physical prowess or the
spoil of shining arms, but a conquest Of
The human mind, an assertion of the
powers of intellect over the most ap-
palling array of circumstances that
could assail human being. Men have
become gray ia front of sudden and I'M
expected peril, and in ancient days so
much was courage matter Of heroics
and mere instinct that we read in i'm
mortal verse cf heroes struck with panic
and fleeing before the enemy. But the
savage Sepoys, with their hoarse war
cry and swarlning like wasps around
the Wagentriebers, struck no terror into
the brave mans heart. His heroism
was not the :Ee1e ebuliition Of despair,
but, like that If his wife, calm and
wise; standing upright that he might
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