Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-01-07

sermons, through the press, Rsv. DR..
Talmage to-day chose Tor his subject:
"Fomb aud Temple" having reference
TO thai most famous aud beautiful Of
mausoIsums, the Tai Mabal. The text
selected was: From Iudla even unto
Ethiopia" Esther 1:I.
In all the Bible this is the only book
10 which the word India occurs, but IL
stands for a realm OF vast interest 10
ths time OF Esther as ia our time. IL
yielded then as now spices, and silks,
and cotton, AID rice, aud indigo, and
ores OF all richness, and precious stones
OF al sparkle, and had a civilization Of
us own as marked as Egyptian or Gre
clan or Roman civilization. IL holds
the eoStliest tomb ever built, aud the
most unique and wonderful idolatrOus
temple ever opened. For practical les
sous, 10 this my sixth discourse in the
Eound-the- world series. l show you
that tomb aud temple OF Ind ia.
~ A JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD
II may not be easy TO tell the exact point
"nlch divides the pilgrimage into
halves. But .here was one structure
toward which We were all the time
travelling, aud having seen that we felt
that u we saw nothing more, our eXpe-
dttion would be a success. That one
object was the Tai Mahal Of India. 10
Is the crown Of the whole earth. The
spirits of architecture met 70 enthrone
q king, and the spirit Of the ParthenOu
OF Athens was there; and the spirit OF
~. sophia OF COrstantinople was there;
and the spirit OF ST. IZaak OF 81. Peters.
burg was there; ana the spirit
or the Baptis,ery OF Pisa was
there; and the spirits Of the
Great Pyramid, and OF Luxor ObelisS,
aDd Of the Porcelain Tower
OF Nan6in, and OF ST. Marks OF Ven
ice; ana the spirits OF all the great
towers, great cathedrals, great mauso-
leumS, great sarcOphagi, great capitOls
for the living, and Of great necropO-
Uses for the dead, were there. Aud the
presiding genius OF the throng with
Ravel OF Parian marble smOte the table
OF Russian maiachite, and called the
throng Of spirits 10 order, and called
vote as TO which spirit should wear the
chief crown, and mount the chief
chrome, and wave the chief sceptre,
BAD by unanimous acclaim the cry was:
Long live the spirit OF the Tai, king
Of all the spirits Of architecture
Thine is
TIE TAI NAuAL. or INDIA"
The building is about six miles from
Agra, and as we rode out Ia the early
Uawb we heard nothing but the hOoIs
and wheels that pulled and turned US
al b h. Of on n
our expectation rose until We had some
Thought that we might be disappointed
AZ the FIRST glimpse, as some say they
We're disappointed, but bow can any one
be disappointed with the Tai is almost
rs great a wonder % % q as the Tai itself.
There are some people always dsap-
pointed, aud WHO kuGvs but that having
entered heaven tn5y may criticiSe the
architecture Of the temple, and the cut
O. the white robes, gnd say that the
river Of lie is not quite up 10 their ex-
pectatiOus. aud that the white horses on
which the conQuerorS ride seem little
sprine-halt or spawned.
Ny son said, There 10 is." said,
"Where2' For that which be saw
10 be the building seemed 10 be more
like the morning cloud blushing under
the stare of the rising sun. IL seemed
not so much built up from earth as let
down from heaven. Fortunately, you
stop at al elaborated gateway Of red
sandstone one-elgbth Of a mile from the
Tai, an entrance so high, so arched, 50
graceful. so four-dOmed, so painted, .and
chiseled, and scroled that you come
very gradually upon the Tai, which
10 f-f no
eye, aud stun the imagination, and en-
trance the SOUL We go up the wind
ing stairs OF this majestic entrance OF
the gateway, and buy few pictures
and examine a few Curios, and from 10
look of upon the Tai, and descend to
the pavement of the garden that rap
tures everything between the gateway
pnd the ecstasy OF marble and precious
stones. You pass
ALONG a DEEP STREAM OF WATER
IA which all manner of brilliant fms
swirl aud 1OaL There are eighty-tour
fountains that spout, aud bend, and
arch themselves 90 fall In showers Of
pearl in basins OF snowy wilderness.
Two hundred and fifty years has the
Tai stood, and yet not wall is crac Sed,
a panel dulled. The storms Of $50 win
tiers have not married, nor the heats Of
$50 summers disintegrated marble.
There is no story OF age written by
MOSES on its white surface, Montaz,
me Oueen. was beautiful, and Shah I
Jehan, the queen, here proposed 10 let
an tks centuries of time know 10. she
was m arried at twenty years Of age and
died at twenty-one. Her life ended as
another life began; as the rose bloomed
tbe rose-bush persisted. To ad0rn this
Sormitory OF the dead, at the command
OF the king, Bagdad seat TO this build
ing his cOruelian, and Ceylon It's lapis
lazull. ADD PuDja0 It's jasper, and Per
sia its amethyst, and Tibet It's tur-
The King sleeps in the tomb beside |
the Queen, although he Intended TO |
bpild a palace as black as this was white |
nm tbe opposite side OF the river for !
himself 20 sleep iu.
We had heard OF the wonderful |
OF this Tai, and so 1 tried H. /
7 snonose there are more sleeping ech-
COS in that building waiting to be
sgssened py the human voice than 10
- h1fldipr ever constructed. ut
,ered one word, and there seemed de-
..,,5lr, invisible chOirs in full chant,
=, ,bors was q reverberatiOn that kept
: -, ,fter one would have expected
I, NJ cease. When line Of hymn
v,os Sung there were replying rOHlhE'
risino falling, Intervening SOUNDS thst
,eemed modulated by beings serapalc.
Nom the top Of the Tai which Is