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DR. TALMAGE ON TeIE THE- were
ORIES OF MOHAMMED. a sal
n ad I
(.a:. Nicholson's Siege of th e ,:nildt fentde
City Filled with lI)e~ll ---The Unequa tioil t
Struggle Between Briton and i Scopy-- \v 0ci
Spread of God's Trut h. iril'is
diers
('ontinuing hi. series of ire
G 'round thle world ser is tr
w inons, through the after
to-day ch(e:se for I:ssu)b- .
j cIt. "'alaces in Indmti, .ult
the text iw ,iu g: .\los vie
S3:; . '%\l' ,tlore up 3d
S t violetoe a:nd robbery in
Stheir palace'.
S lu this da}y when
vast situlns, o imney Il i .
,A are being given for the
redemlption of India. I ta
hlit e to increase t!.e Iitt' re.-t in that ;
great country, and at the saite timne
draw for all classes of our peoiple pra' e
tical lessons, and so I prescl: Ihis tifth I
sermon in the "'rotund t he worldt"
series. We step into the ancienlt capi- lhe
tal of India, the mere pronuuciation of w«t:
its nam:;( sending a thrill through the was
body, mind and soul of a;ll those who and
have ever read its stories of splendor, age
and disaster, and pro (,ss--I )Ielhi. 'he e
Before the first historian itmpressedl of th
his first word in clay. or cut his first wall
word on marble, or wrote his first The
word on papyrus. IDellhi stood in In- medt
dia, a contemporary of Blabylon and the 1
Nineveh.' We know that D)cihi ex- but
isted longer before tChrist's time than gate
we live after his time. i)elhi is built mak
on the ruins of seven cities, which with
ruins cover forty miles with wrecked gate
temples, broken fortresses. split befo
tombs, tumble down palaces. and the calle
debris of centuries. An arclh:ologist in r
could profitably spend his life here nag(
talking with the past through its lips ligh
Q of venerable masonry. Wril
V There are a hundred things here for I
you ought to see im this city of Delhi, wor
but three things you must see. The iLiet
first thing that I wanted to see was Ser;
the Cashmere gate, for that was the Smi
point at which the most wonderful to tl
deed of daring which the world has on
ever seen was done. That was the thoi
turning point of the mutiny of 1857. t).e
A lady at Delhi put into my hand an cart
oil painting of about eighteen inches foul
square, a picture well executed, but und
M chiefly valuable for what it repre- llor
vented. It was a scene from the time dite
of mutiny; two horses at full run, gate
harnessed to a carriage in which were der
f tour persons. She said: "Those per- mor
sons on the front side are my father his
and mother. The young lady on the for
back seat holding in her arms a baby: fire
of a year was my eldest sister and! tha
the baby was myself. My mother,. aro
who is down with a fever in the next. blo
room, painted that years ago. Thei of
horses are in full run because we are ten
fleeing for,,gur lives. My mother is for
driving, fo'the reason that father, Thi
standing up in the front of his car- the
riage, had to defend us with his gun,; of
as you there see. He fought our ways the
out and on for many a mile, shooting; the
dlown the Sepoys as we went. We had; gal
somewhat suspected trouble and be-j an
come suspicious of our servants. A ace
prince had requested a private inter- wa
view with my father, who was editor dal
of tge Delhi Gazette. The prince pro-i to
poses to come veiled, so that no one ~
might recognize him, but my mother. ha
Insisted on being present, and the in- m
terview did not take place. A large
Sfish had been sent to our family, andt Ez
four other families, the present an of-1 i
tering of thanks for the king's recov-1 me
ery from a recent sickness. But we!
suspected poison and did not eat the; l
fish. One day all our servants camel he
up and said they must go and see what th
was the matter. We saw what was. wi
intended and knew that if the servantsa o
returned they would murder all of us.1 sh
Things grew worse and worse untih bc
t]is scene of flight shown you in the si(
picture took place. You see the horsesl pl
were wild with fright. This was noti lo
Sonly because of the discharge of guns,: w
but the horses were struck and poundl fe
ed by Sepoys, and ropes were tiedi s
across the way, and the savage halloo,' s
*gd the shout of revenge made all the ni
way of our flight a horror." s
The books have fully recorded the ie
heroism displayed at Delhi and ap- at
proximate regions, but make no men- h
lion of this family of Wagentreibers a
whose flight I am mentioning. Bu a
the Madras "Atheneum" printed this:, tl
"And nowl Are not the deeds of the D
Wagentreibers,though he wore a round' a
hat and she a crinoline, :as worthy of t
imperishable verse as those of the i,
heroic pair whose nuptials graced the
court of Charlemagne? A more touch
Ing picture than that of brave men con
Stending with well nerved arm against h
the black and threatening fate impend- a
Ing over his wife and child, we have ,
never seen. Here was no strife for the
glory of physical prowess, or the spoil.
of shining arms, but a conquest of the
human mind, an assertion of the pow- i
ms of intellect over the most appalling
array of circumstances that could as- I
sail a human being. Men have become
in froat of sudden and unexpected
"e, mand in ancient days so much was
couragse a matter of heroics and mere
lustinct that we read in imtmortal verse
of heroes struck with panic and fleeing
before the enemy. But the savage
Sepoys, with their hoarse war cry, and i
swarming like wasps around the
Wsgenttibers,5struck no terror tntothe
brave man's heart. His heroism was
not the mero.ebullitinof despair,.buat,
like that of his wife, ealm and wise;
standing upright that he might use his
kn!5 ~MmtR~~~omtP o
.osi;ssiotn of the cilty of l)elhi, and
they were. with all their artillery,
iighlting hack ti' Europeans, who
were on the outsid,. The city of Delhi
hasi a crenulated wall on three sides,
a wall five and ouchlalf miles long,
and l th foLurth side of the city is de
fcndedc by the R.iver Jumna. In addi
tion to these two defenses of wall and
wa cr. there were 4.0,0)0 Sepoys, all
armed. Twelve hundred British sol
diers were to take that city. Nichol
son. the i' mortal gocder:al, commanded
tl cu:, anld you nmu.t visit his gr ve be
fre you le:'v'' iehi, . He fell leading
his troops. lie cotin ai led theu. even
after help!" molU tally \',)uitllnled. You
c will read 'his it.,c:ilptiotn )n his tomb:
J.lohn Ni.'lhtilson. . w ho led the as
,ait ofi Delhli, hut. fell in the hour of
tietory, m n:aliy wotundedl, and died
P { (I S'lt e m'er, 1$57. Ag.ed 35 years.
W ith ,-hat guns and len (len. Nichi
ol),n co'1ld ntuster he had laid siegeto
,I nal ed city filled with devils.
V ,1nt faarHnl odds: Twelve hundred
S i:.; I troopsi.i uncovered by any mili
tt ..-, o take a city surrounded
I hr ir: and high maso()nry, on tile top
, hih were 114 giuns and defended
hvy i ),i)i) foaming Sep ,ys. A larger
it lc rc:tage of troops fell here than in
al gri'eat ;atIle I htappen to know of.
i- 1'!iu rii oeait i percentage of the fallen
if uwvn 17.4S, but the percentage of Delhi
.0 was 7.i . Yet that city miust be taken,
Sand it catn only be taken by such cour
r, age its had never been recorded in all _-
'he annals of bl,odished. Every charge
Sof the lBritish regiments agaiinst thel
-t walls and gates had been beaten back.
st T'lihe' hyenas of Hindooisii and Moham
1- nmedantisim howled over the walls, and
id the English army could do nothing
X- but bury their own dead. lht at this
n gate I s.land and watch an exploit that
it makes the page of history tremble
hi with agitation. This city has ten
td gates, out the most famous is the one
it before which we now stand, and it is
tI called Cashmnere gate. Write the words
st in red ink, because of the car
re nage! Write them in letters of
Ps light, for the illustrious deeds!
Write them in letters of black,
re for the bereft and the dead. Will the
ii, world ever forget that Cashmere gate?
be Lieutenants Salkeld and Home and
as Sergeants Burgess, Carmichael and St!
he Smith offered to take bags of powder
l to the foot of that gate and set them -
as on fire, blowing open the gate. al
he thoughi they must die in doing it. There
t7. tley go, just after sunrise, each one
an lcarrying a sack containing twenty
es four pounds of powder, and doing this
ut under the fire of the enemy. Lieut. L
re- Home was the first to jump into the
ne ditch, which still remains before the
In, gate. As they go, one by one falls un
tre der the shot and shelL One of the
er- mortally wounded, as he falls, hands
ier his sack of powder with a box of luei
he for matches to another, telling him to
bvy fire the sack; when with an explosion
ndi that shook the earth for twenty miles
er,, around, part of the Cashmere gate p .
xt; blown into fragments, and the bodies Dr
'he of some of these heroes were so scat- ;h
ire tered that they were never gathered
is for funeral, or grave, or monument. C
er, The British army rushed in through
ar- the broken gate, and although six days
un, of hard fighting were necessary before
'ay the city was in complete possession,
ingi the crisis was past. The Cashmere
iad. gate open, the capture of Delhi
be- and all it contained of pal
Aaces, and mosques, and treasures
er- was possible. Lord Napier of Mag
tor dala, of whom Mr. Gladstone spoke
'ro- to me so affectionately when I
ne ,was his guest at Hawarden, England,
her has lifted a monument near this Cash
in- mere gate with the names of the men
gewho there fell inscribed thereon. That
nd English lord, who has seen courage on
of-i many a battlefield, visited the Cash
ov- mere gate, and felt that the men who
wel opened it with the loss of their own
the1 lives ought to be commemorated, and
ime hence this cenotaph. But, after all, -
hat the best monument is the gate itself,
was! with the deep gouges in the brick wall
mtsi on the left side, made by two bomb
us.' shells, and the wall above, torn by ten
ntih bomb-shells, and the wall on the right
the side, defaced, and scraped, and
rses) plowed, and gullied by all styles of
not long reaching weaponry. Let the
uns,: words "Cashmere gate," as a synonym I
mnd-' for patriotism, and fearlessness, and
tied self sacrifice, go into all history, all
iloo, art, all literature, all time, all eter
.the nity! My friends, that kind of courage "
sanctified will yet take the whole
the earth for God. Indeed, the mission.
ap- aries now at Delhi, toiling amid I
nen- heathenism, and fever, and cholera,
ibers and far away from home and comfort,
BuV and staying there until they drop into
this: their graves, are just as brave in taking
f the Delhi for Christ as were Nicholson,
ound and Home, and Carmichael in taking
y of Delhi for Great Britain. Take thir
the for the first sermonic lesson,
Ach- A well-known lawyer on circuit in
con-' the north of England. curious to
a nst know how a certain juryman arrived
?end- at his verdict, meeting him, one day,
have ventured to ask. "Well," he re
rthe plied, ,I'm a plain man, and like to
spoil be fair to every one. I don't go by
I the what the witnesses say, and I don't
pow- go by what the lawyers say, and I
ling don't go by what the judges say; but
d as- I looks at the man in the dock, and
ome I says 'He must have done something
etd or he wouldn't be there,' so I brings
h was 'em all in guilty. "-Argonaut
verag Their Enthuiasm galekly Dies.
leeing A good many enthusiastio British'
aage era who enlist to serve their country
r, and seem to find the conditions of service
the unsatisfaetory,for nearly $60,000 was
tothe paid last year by recruits to pnr
i was chase their discharge before they
rh.bt, had been in the army three mouths.
is hia TPIW Bamew t
,,Isn't it dreadfull " she exolaimed,
,re .to see t abl tLhatelderly belle is
i' ht. ~ ~ i-,.·
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