Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-01-16
REV. DR. TALMAGE
THE BHOOKLYN pIvINE'S SUN.
DAY SEEMON.
subject: oPalaces in lndia.o

are Oeing gwen 'Or tne redemption OF H.
dia. L hope TO increase the interest in that
great country and at the same time draw
tor all classes of our people practical les
sons, and so l present this htd sermon in
the round the world series. We step into
the ancient capital OF India, the mere r-o-
Duncation of its name sending thrill
through the body, mind and soul o. all
those who have ever rea! its stories OF
plenior and disaster and prowess-Dfini.
Before the first historian impressed his
first word in clay. or cut his first wori on
| marhie. or wrote his first word on papyrus,
Delhi stool in India, a contemporary OF
Btnyon AMI Nneveh. We know that Delhi
/ existed longer before Christ's time than we
| live after His time. Delhi is built on the
| ruins OF seven cities, which ruins cover forty
| miles. with wrecKed temples, broken
| iortresses. split tombs. tumble down palaces
and the debris OF centuries. An archRo ogist
could profiably spen his lie here talking
with the past through its lips of venerable
| masonry.
| There are hundred things here you
OUGHT TO see in this city of Delhi. but three
| things YOU must see. The first thing want
| ed 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 cone. That was the turning point
of the mutiny OF 1851. lady at Delhi put
into my hand an oil painting of about eight
| cen inches square, a picture well executed.
hut chiefly valuable for what 1t repre-
| sented. 1t was a scene from the time oil
| mutiny; two horses at 'ull run. har,
| messed TO a carriage in which were four
| persons. She saids "Those persons on
the front side are my father and mother.
| The young lady on the back seat hold
ing in her arms n baby of a year was
| my older sister. and the baby was my
sell. My mother, who is down with a
fever in tne next room, painted that
years aS,. Toe horses are IN full run
because we are fleeing for our lives. My
mother is driving, for the reason that father.
| standing up in the front of his carriage, had
| 10 defend Us with his gun, as you there see.
| He fought our way out and on for many q
! mile. shooting down the sepoys as We WENT
! We had somewhat suspected trouble and
| had become suspicious OF our servants. A
prince had requested private interview
, with my father, who WAS editor OF the
I Delhi Gazette. The prince proposed to
| come ysileI. 30 that no one might recog-
| niz- him, Int ms mother insisted on being
| present. and the interview did not taSe
| pace. A large fish had been sent to our
| family and four other families, the present
| an Offering of thanks for the Kings recovery
| from n recent sickness. Bur We suspected
! poison an d not eat the fish.
| son. dav all our servants came up and said
| they must so and see what was the matter.
I We : ~ what was intended AMI knew that 1t
the S'.v ms returnsl they would murier all
! Of us. IHu-s grew worse and worse until
1ti~ 80 n o! II -Dt SHOWN you III lue pIct
! took placr. You see. tuc horses were wild
| With r cht. This was nor only because OF
IN" discharge OF guns. but the horses were
| struck and pounded by sepoys, and ropes
| were tied across the way, and the savaGs
! halloo ant the shout Of revenge made all the
| way OF our flight n horror"
| The books nave fully recorded the hero
sm displayed at D,lhi and approximate
| regions. bu. made no mention oil this fam
! ily OF Wagentr reibers whose flight am men.
' t.uf IA rt.f
this:
"Ani nowi Are not the deeds of the WaS
| ,ntreihers though he wore a round hat and
she a crinOline. as worthy OF imPerfshable
| verse II those OF the heroic pair whose nup-
/ tials gr4cea the court of Charlemagne? A
more touching picture than that oil the
| brave man conten ling with well nerved
! arm agains; 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 oil
| shining arms, but u conquest of the hur
mn 4, an assertion of the powers of intellect
over the most appalling array OF clrcum-
| stances that could assail human beng.
| Men have become gray in front OF sudden and
unexpected peril, and in ancient days SO
much WIS courage matter OF heroic
| and mere instinct that We read In I'M
| mortal verse of heroes struck with panic
; and fleeing before the enemy. But the saw
| age sepoys. with their hoarse warcry ana
swarminS like wasps around the WaSen-
, trieh,rs, struck no terror into the brave
| mans heart. His herosm was not the mere
| ebullrtion of despair, but, like that of his
, wife. calm AMI wise-staniinG upright that
ae might usa his arms better.
As an incident will sometimes more i'm
! press one than a generality OF statement, ]
| present the flight of this one family from
| Delhi merely 70 illustrate the desperation o.
! the times. The fact was that the sepoys mad
| taken possession of the citv of Delhi, and
! they were. with all their artillery, fighting
| back the Europeans who were on the out
side and murder ng all the Europeans who
| were inside. The city OF Delhi has
| crenulatei wall on three sides. wall
fiveanda a half miles long, and the fourth side o
| the city is defended by the River Jumna. In
| addition to these two defenses OF wall anc
water there were 10000 sepoys, all armed
| Twelve hundred British soldiers were TO
| take that city. Nicholson, the Immortal
| General, commanded them. and you must
| visit his grave before you leave Delhi. He
| fell leading his troops. He commanded
| them even after being mortally wounded
You will read this inscription on his tomb
"John Nicholson. who led the assault OF
| Delhi, bur fell in the hour OF victory,
| mortally WOUNDED. and died 23d September,
| 1857. age thirty-five years"
| With what guns and men General Nichol
ton could muster he had laid siege to this
| walled city filed with devils. What fear iul
|
covered by any military works, to take a
! city surrounded by firm and high masonry,
| on the top of which were ia guns and de-
Tended by 40, 900 iolminS sepoys. larger
| percentage of troops fell here than in
| any great haitle happen to know OF. The
Crimran p rccntage o. the fallen was II. As .
| Int the percentage of Delhi was 37.9. Yet
| that city must be taken. and it can only he
| taken by such courage as had never been re-
| corded in all the annals OF bloodshed. Every
| oh. of, hal nrt,l fha
| walls AMI .ates had been beaten back The
| hyenas of Hin loosm AMI MohammedanIsm
| bowel over the walls. and the English
! army could do nothing hut bury their own
| dead. But ut this gate stand and watch
| an exploit that makes the page of history
| tremble with agitation.
| TAis city has ten gates, but the most fam
| Gus is the one before which We now stan
| and it is called Cashmere gate Write the
| words in red ink because of the carnlys.
| Write them in letters of light for the illus
trious deeds. Write them in letters of black
| for the herelt and the dead. VIII the world
ever forget that Cashmere gate? Leuten-
| ants Salkeid and Home and Sargeants Bur-
| CESS, Carmichael and Smith offered to take
! bags OF powder TO the foot of that gate an
st them on fire. blowing open tine gate, al
| though they must ole in doing it. There
they 30 Just after sunrise, each one carrying
| sack containing iwenty-tour pounds o.
| powder, and doing this under the fire of tho
| enemy.
Lieutenant Home was the first to juml
| INTO the ditch, which still remains before
| the gate. As they go, one by one falls under
! the shot and shell. One OF the mortaily
| wounted as he falls han g his sack of pow
| der with box OF lucifer matches TO an.
| other, telling him to fire the sack, when,
| with an explosion that shook the earth for
| twt nty miles arouni, part OF the Cashmere
| gate was blown into fragments. aud the
bodies OF some of These heroes were 50
| scattered they were never gathered for fun
1 eral or grave or monument. The British
army rushed in through the broken gate,
! and although six days OF hard fighting were
necessary before the city was in complete
| possession the cr;s 8 WAS past. The Cash.
| mere yai. oprn, the capture of Delhi anl
all it contained of pllaces ani mosques and
treasures w pos -ihie.
Lori Napier, OF Magiala. OF whom Mt.
Gladstone spoke TO me- 50 arect'onHt ely
waen WIS his gu st a;H iwa- len, En2,apl.
has liilei Il monumant near this Cashmara