The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-02-17

travelled the very read Cnslf f1aVel0ck
came over when he brought relief to
Lucknow A number of interesting spots
and scenes were described, and the men
that took part in this greatest and blood
lest of human tragedies were pictured
by the lecturer in most eloquent word
painting.
Havelock, he said, was one of the great
est heroes of history. A number of inter
esting incidents in his life were related
in pleasing manner.
The story of the mu9iny, led by the
rebel Mama Saib and his massacre of
hundreds of women ana children, was
also told by DIR. Talmage. His descrip-
ton of this most blood-thirsty and cruel
of all the Hindus was dramatic and truly
eloquent.
The Tasha-mahal. the most elaborate
and beautiful mausOleum IN all the
world was described. 1t cost 100000,
though built by slave labor Twenty
thousand men were twenty years build
ing it. 1t has stood $50 Years, and yet
not a stone is cracked, not an arch Is
sagged or bent, not pillar is out of
plumb 1t is built of pure white marble
and ornamented with gold and silver, and
all the precious stones. The building is
$50 feet high. and then from the top Of 1t
ascends a spire 80 feet higher, and this
is of pure gold. 1t is the pride of all
India, and in it sleeps a queen and king.
1t was built by the king for his queen,
who was the most beautiful woman an all
India She died at the age of %.
but of all the countries ] saw, the
best country was America. 1t lis the best
country on earth. The poor mans para
disc and the home of liberty and pro-
gress and Christianity.
DR.. Talmage described in most hum0r-
Gus style HIS reception at St Petersburg
and his interview with the Emperor,
Alexander III, the king of all the Rus
sias. He paid him the highest of trib-
utes, and declared that he was che most
belied man of all the centuries He said
his heart was touched with genuine sor-
row when he heard Alexander was dy-
ing. II believe he left home on earth
for a home in heaven"
The Empress, the lecturer described as
a June morning" 'artless as a noun
tain lass"
Il left that palace more impressed with
the beauty of Christian home than with
the grandeur of the palace"
His visit to Gladstone, the GRAND Old
Man of England, was also told by the
lecturer II went away from him feel
ing that had not only seen one Gf the
mightiest men of the century, but Of all
the world"
The description Of the ringing of the
sunset bells in Moscow was an exquisite
piece of word painting, such as none other
than a Talmage can portray.
As the words of the speaker sank al
most to a whisper and then died away,
one could almost hear, from the ls400
towers in Moscow, the booming of the
great bells, the music Of the smaller ones
and the soft tinkle of another, like air
bubbles bursting ON placid water. 1t was
all very beautiful. You could see more,
for the word painting was gorgeous and
did not stop here. The towers and dones
and roofs and palaces and spires Of the
historic city were ablaze in the red light
Of the dying sun. and the bells We're
ringing its knell Or was it not rather an
alarm they were sounding? All Moscow
was on fire. 1t could not have been more
magnificent even in the glare of the great
confagration on that night of terror when
Napoleon and his army stood in its streets
and saw the flames deyourng it.
Now the sun has set and the bells have
ceased, the speakers words have died
away and the most brilliant and withal
the most eloquent lecture the people of
Raleigh have ever listened to was at an
end