Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1895-01-09
Ing Delhi for Great Britain. Take this for

thrones of the earth put together would
not equal that for costltDess and brilllance.
It had steps Of silver, and the seat and arms
were of solid gold. It cost about Sl50, ,000,-
ooo. 1t stood between two peacocks, the
feathers and plumes Of whica were fashioned
out Of colored stones. Above the throne
was life size parrot cut out OF one em-
erald. Above all was canopy resting oa
twelve columns of gold, the canopy fringe1
with pearls. Seated here, the emperor
on public occasions wore crown con-
tanning. among ether things, the Kohinoor
diamond, and the entire blazs OF coronet
cost $40. $50, 900. This superb and once al
most supernaturally beautiful room has I'm.
bedded 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 orbliss,
That place is this, Is this, Is this, Is this.
But the peacocks that stool beside the
throne have flown away, taking all the dis
play with them, and those white marble
floors were Redeemed with slaughter. and
Eden of which the Persian couplet on the
walls spake has had Its flowers wither and
its fcnits decay, and + thought while look
ir.s ut the brilliant deSolation aud standing
amid the vanished glories OF that throne
room that some one had better change q
little that PcSsian 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.
As came out OF the palace into the street
OF Delhi, I thought to myself paradIses are
not built out or stone; are not cut IN sculP-
ture are not painted on walls are not fasa-
ioned oct OF precious stones do not spray the
cheek with fountains; do not offer thrones
lures upllfted and ennobled, and what
architects compass may not sweep, and
sculptor's chisel may not cut, and painters
pencil may not sketch, and gardeners skill
may not lay out the grace OF God can
achieve, and IL the henrt be right oil is right.
and If the heart be wrong all iB wrong. Here
endeth the second lessen.
But will not set 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. 1t is the grandest
mosque I ever saw except ST. Sophia at Con-
staniinople, but 1t surpasses that In some
respects, for st. Sophia was originally
Caristipn church and changed into mosque,
while this OF Delhi was originally built for
the Moslems.
AS entered 1000 or more Mohammedans
we're prostrated in worship. There are
times when 5000 may be seen here In the
same attitude. Each stone OF the hoor 1s
three feet long by one and half wide, an
each worshiper has one Of these slabs for
himself while kneeling. The erection OF
this building required 5000 laborers for six
years. What Luilt up immensity OF white
marble and red sandstone! We descended
the forty marble steps by which VIC assembled
and took another look at this wonder OF the
world.
AS I thought what q brain the architect
must have had who first built that mosque
in his own imagination, and as I thought
what an opulent ruler that must have been
who gave the order for such vastness and
symmetry, I was reminded OF that which
perfectly explained all. The architect who
planned this was the same man who
planned the T:i-namely, Austin de Bor-
deau-and the king who ordered the mosque
constructed was the king who ordered
the Tai-namey, Sinh Jehan. AS this
grand mogul ordered built the most
splendid palace for the dead when he
built the Tai Mt Agra. he here ordered built
the most splendid palace OF worship Tor 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 BorJeau and Shah Jehan quit
this life, but their work lives and bids toir
10 stand until the continents crack open, and
hemispheres go down, and this planet show
ers other worlds with its ashes.
Irejoce iu all these big buildings. whether
dedicnted 10 Mohammel or Brahma OF Bud
dha or Confucius or Zoroaster, because as
ST. Sophia ct Coustantinopls was Christian
church changed into mosque aud will yet
be changed back again, so all the mosques
and temples of superstition and sin WILL yet
be turned into churches. When India
and Ceylon anl China and Japan are
ranso ned, rs We all believe they will be,
their religious structures will all be con-
yerted into Chris. ian asyluns. md Christian
schools, and Christian libraries, and Chris.
FffEn churches. Buff at The expense OF gu.
pers!ition and sin, they will yet be dedicated
to the Lord Almighty. Here endeth the
third less, n.
AS tba, hit we took. the railrod train
from the Delhi station and rolled out
through the city now living over the vaster
cites buried under thiS-> o2cier' capital,
cnIs5 under cities, and our travelling SCI
want had unrolled our bed, which consisted
OF a rug and two blankets and a pillow.and as
We were worn out with the sightseeing the
day, and were roughly tossed on that uneven
Indian railway, soon fell into troubled
s!oep, in which saw and heard in con-
fusei 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 musSetry,.
IN now the light at the top OF the car de-
luded me with the idea OF u burning city.
and then the loud thump OF the railroad
brake was in dream mistaken for q
booming battery, aud the voices at the dif-
fe:ent stations made me think I heard the
loud cheer of the British at the taking OF
the Cachmere gate, and rs we rolled over
bridges the battles before Delhi seemed
going on, and as We went through dark tun-
nels seemed 10 sec thet tomb OF Humayuni in
which the King OF Delhi was hidden, and in
my dreams ] saw Lieutenant Kenny ol
the artillery throwing shells which were
handed to him, their fuses burning, and
Campbell and Reid and Hope Grant covered
with blood, and Nicholson falling while ral-
living on the wall his wavering troops, and
saw dead regiment IaIIen across dead reg!-
ment, and heard the rataplan OF the hoof5
OF Hodgson's horse, and the dash OF the
Bengal artillery, and the storminS by the I'M
mortal fourth column, nnd tho rouSner tne
Indian railway became and the darker the
night grew the more the scenes that l
had been studying at Delhi came on me like
an incubus. But the morning began to look
through the window Of our jolting railcar,
and the sunlight poured in on my pillow,
and in my dreams I saw the bright colors OF
the English flag hoisted over Delhi, Wnere
the green banner of the Moslem had waved,
and the voices OF the wounded and dying
seemed to be exchanged for the voices that
welcomed soldiers home again.
And as the morning light got brighter and
brighter, and in my dream :! mistooS the
bells at station for church bell han glnS
in minaret, where Mohammedan priest
had mumbled his call to prayer, seemed to
hear chant, whether by human or angelic
voices in my dream could not tell, but 1t
was Oh ant about "peace and good VIII to
men," And as the speed OF the rail train
slackened the motion of the car became
so easy rs we rolled along the track thar
it seemed to me that all the distress
and controversy and joltins and wars Of the
world had ceased, ami in my dream
thought we had come to the time when 'the
ransomed OF the Lord shall return AMI come
to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon
their heads, and sorrow and signing shall
fee away"
Halt here at what you have never seen be-
fore, n depopulated city, the city OF Amber,
India.