News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-01-03

4 f flowers Wltner ana its fullS
~, 9"l I thought while looking at
l'lhant da-ulation and standing
lilac vanished glorios Of that throne
that some one had better change
halo that Persian couplot on the wall
smll:&ko it reld:
~a be Il Piece where much you miss,
i =. Illee ,his, is this, is this, is this.
= Tca. out Of the palace into the
&C.. Ii, ! thought to myself
~ ura not built out Of stone; are
..e cat in 1ipture; are not painted on
81 re fashioned out # precious
, Mt spray the check with
u; 90 not offer thrones or
=. & T 1discs are built out of ma
~ u0 I'd and ennobled, and what
.-s-l... is compass may not sweep, and
= $ ciisel may not cut, and paint
,.s 4 may not sketch, and garden
ersE .. } ~. = not lay out, the grace Of
CoID a., owe, and if the heart be
T.. cal IS light, and if the heart be
aroag al is wrong. Here endoth the
second lc>stn,
But I VIII not yet allow you to leave
Delhi TIL, Third thing you must see,
CT never aae8jt that you have been in
India, is the mosque called Iumma Mus
id 1t is the Sgandest mosque / ever
saw except St Sophia at Constantine
pie, but it surpasses that in some re-
speots, for ST Sophia was originally a
Christian church and changed into a
!, q
inally built for the Moslems.
A Worlds Wonder.
AS entered 1000 or more Moham-
medans were Frustrated in worship.
There are times when 5000 may be
seen here in the same attitude. Each
stone Of the floor is 3 feet long by .
wide, aud each worshiper has one Of
these slabs for himself while kneeling
The erection of this building required
5000 laboreTs for six years. 1t is on a
plateau Of rock; has four towers rising
far into the heavens; three great gate
ways inviting the world to come in and
honor the memory Of the prophet Of
many wives; Is domes, with spires gold
tipped, and six minarets What Il built
up immensely of white marble and rcd
sandstone? We descended the &C mar
bic steps 10y which we assembled and
took another look at this wonder Of the
world.
AS I thought what brain ihe a1chi-
tect 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, | was 70.
minded Of that which perfectly explain
ed all. The architect who planned this
was the same man who planned the
| Taj--namely, Austin de Bordeau--and
the king who ordered the mosque con
structed was the king who 7rdeTo@ hg
Tai--nauoly Shah Jehau. A. Di,
grand mogul ordered built the most
splendid palace for the dead when ho
built the TAI at Agra, he here ordered
built the most splendid palace Of wor-
ship for the living at Delhi. See hare
what sculpture and archit t3ture can nc
complish. They link together the cen
turtles. They successfully defy time.
Two hundred and eighty years ago Aus
tin dc Bordeau and Shah ,Jehan quit
this life but their work lives and bids
fair to stand until the continents crack
open, and hemispheres go down, and
this planet showers other worlds with
its ashes
rejoice in all these big buildings
whether dedicated to Mohammed or
Brahma or Buddha or Confucius or 10
rooster, because as st. Sophia at Constan-
! tinoplo was Christian church chang
ed into mosque and will yet be chang
ed back again, so all the mosques and
| temples Of superstition and sin will yet
be turned into churches When India
and Ceylon ana China and Japan arc
ransomed as we all believe they will
| be, their religious structures will all be
converted into Christian asylums, and
| Christian schools, and Christian libra
RIGS, and Christian churches Built ut
the expense Of superstition and sin,
they will yet be dedicated to the Lord
Almighty, Here cndeth the third lesson
Under She English flag.
As that night we took the railroad
train from tho Delhi station and rolled
out through the city now living over
the waiter cities buried under this an
cient capital, cities under cities, and
our travelling servant had unrolled our
bed, which consisted Of a rug and two
blankets aud Il pillow, and as we were
worn out with the sightseeing OF the
day, and We're roughly tossed Oh that
uneven Indian railway, soon fell into
a troubled sleep, in which l saw and
heard in confused 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 musketry, and now
the light at the top of the car deluded
me with the idea of burning city, and
then the loud thump of the railroad
brake was in dream mistaken for a
booming battery, and the voices at the
different stations made me think
heard the loud cheer of the British at
the taking of the Cashmere gate, and as
we rolled over bridges the battles be-
fore Delhi seemed going on, and as we
went through dark tunnels ] seemed to
see the tomb of Humayun in which tho
king of Delhi was hidden, and in my
dreams | saw Lieutenant Kenny of the
artillery throwing shells which were
handed to him, their fuses burning, and
Campbell and Reid and Hope Grant