The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-07


lectures. and poisoned the lungs Of audi
ences by ineficiency ought 10 visit this
Cave Of Eieuharta and beware OF what
' these doOrkeepers aye doing. when instead
of leaning on the angelic. they lean on
the lemoniac.
In these Elephauta Caves everything is
on a Samsoniau and Titanian scale. With
chisels that.were dropped from nerveless
hands at least eight hundred centuries
ago. the forms OF the gods Brahma. and
Nishuu. aud silva We're cut into the ever
lasting rock silva is here represented by
figure sixteen feet nine inches high. one
half man and one-half woman Run a line
from the center Of the forehead straight
10 the floor of the rock and you divide
this idol into maSc uline and feminine Ad-
mired as this idol b. by many, it was 10
me about the worst thing that was ever
cut into porphyry perhaps because there
is hardly anything on earth 50 objection
able AS "a being half man and half woman
DO be one or other. my nearer. Man is
admirable, and woman Is admirable. but
either In flesh OF trap rock compromise
OF the two is hideous. Save US from eff
Terminate men and masculine women,
fonder Is the King Ravana worshipping
onder L. the sculptured representation
II tho marriage of SILVA and Parhau
Wonder is Daksha. the son Of Brahma,
born from the thumb Of his right hand
He had sixty daughters. Seventeen of
and became the mothers Of the human
race. Ionder is a god with three heads
The center god has crown wound with
necklaces Of skulls The right hand god
is IN paroXysm Of rage, with forehead Of
snakes and in its hand is "A cobra The
left hand god has pleasure In all its feat
ures and the hand has flower. But there
are gods and gOddesses in all directions
The chief temple Of this rock is one hun
dred ana thirty feet square and has TWEEN
ty-sN pillars rising TO the roof. After
the conquerors Of other lands. and the
tourists from all lands have Clipped. and
delaced, and blasted, and carried away
curiOs and mementos for museums and
homes, there are enough entrancements
LETT 10 detain one. unless he is cautious
until he is down with some of the mala.ias
which encompass this island, or get bit
ten with some Of its snakes. Yes. / felt
the chilly dampness of the place. and left
this congress Of gods. this pandemonium
of demons. this pantheon OF Indifferent
deities, and came to the steps and looked
or upon the waters which rolled ana
flashed around the steam yacht. that was
waiting to return with US TO Bombay As
We stepped aboard. our minds filled with
the idols Of the Elephanta Caves. / was
impressed as never before with the
thought that man must have religion of
some kind. even If he has to contriVe one
himself and he must have a god, even
though he make it with his own hand. /
rejoice to know the day will come when
the one God OF the Universe will be
acknowledged throughout India
That evening Of our return to Bombay /
visited the Young Mems Christian Assoc
citation with the same appointments that
you find In the Young Mems Christian As
sociations of Europe and America. and
the night after that J addressed a throng
of native children who are in the schools
a. the Christian NTfecfpua (-hVfetf..., mi
versites gather under their wing of bene-
diction a host Of the young men of this
country. Bombay and Calcutta, the two
great commercial cities OF India, feel the
elevating power of an aggressive Chris
tianity. Episcopalian liturgy and Presby-
terrain Westminster CsteChsm, ana
Methodist AnXious-seat. and Baptist Wa
ters Of Conservation now stand where
once basest idolatrles had undisputed
sway. The work which Shoemaker Carey
inaugurated at Serampore, India, trans
lating the Bible into forty different dia-
lects, ana leaving his worn-out body amid
the natives whom he come to save. and
going up into the heavens from which he
can better watch all the feld-that work
will be completed in the salvation of the
millions of India; and beside him, gazing
from the same high places stand Bishop
Heber, and Alexander Duff. and John
Scudder, and Maekay. who fell at Delhi.
and Moncrieff, who fell at Cawnpore and
Polehampton. who fell at Lucknow, and
Freeman, who fell at Futtyghur. and all
heroes and heroines who. for Chrisrs sake
lived and died for the Christianization of
India; and their heaven will not be com
plete until the Ganges that washes the
Chats of heather temples shall roll be-
tween churches of the living God. and the
trampled womanhood of Hinduism shall
have all the rights purchased 10y Him who,
amid the cuts and stabs of his own assas-
sination. cried out; Behold thy mother"
/ and from Bengal Bay to Arabian Ocean.
and from the Himalayas to the coast of
Coromandel there be lifted hosannas to
Him who died to redeem all nations. In
that day Elephauta Cave viii be one of
the places where idols are east. to the
moles and bats" Ii any clergyman asks
me, as an unbelieving minister of religion
once asked the Duke of Wellington: do
you not think that the work of converting
the Hindoos is all a practical farce?" I
answer him as Wellington answered the
unbelieving minister Look to your
marching orders. SIR Or if any one hay
ing Joined in the Gospel attack feels like
retreating, l say to him, as Gen. Havelock
said to retreating regiment: THE enc
my are in front, not in the rear" and
leading them again into the fight, though
/ two horses had been shot under him.
Indeed, the taking of this world for
4 Christ will be no holiday celebration, but
/ as tremendous as when in India during
/ the mutny of 1857, fortress manned by
! Sepoys was to be captured by Sir Colin
! Campbell and the army of Britain The
! Sepoys hurled upon the attacking columns
burning missiles, 2-9d grenades. and fired
/ on them shot and she'll and poured on
/ them from the ramparts burning oil, until,
/ a writer who witnessed it, says: 1T was
/ picture of Pandemonium. Then Sir Colin
1 addressed his troops, saying: Remember
/ the women and children must be rescued"
/ and his men replied: "Ay! Ay Sir Colin,
| We stood by you at Balaklava, and will
! stand by you here"' And then came the
! triumphant assault of the battlements SO
/ in this Gospel campaign which proposes
! capturing the very last citadel of idolatry
/ and sin. and hosting over it the banner
of the Cross, We may have hurled upon
/ us mighty opposition, and scorn. and oh
/ luquy. and many may fall before the work
/ is done, yet at every call for new onset
/ let the cry of the church be: "Ay! Ay.
/ Great Captain OF our salvation; we stood
/ by thee in other conflicts, and we will
stand by thee to the last. And then.
! if not in this world, then from the battle
/ ments of the next as the last Appolyonic
fertilization shall crash into ruin, We will