———— A A S—— "REV. DR. TALMAGE. The Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sun- day Sermon. Subject: “Tomb and Temple,” Text: “From India even unto Ethiopia.” ~Esther i, 1. In all the Bible this is the only book in whieh the word Indian occurs, but it stands for a realm of vast interest in Esther, as in our time, It yielded then, as pow, splees and silks and cotton and rice and indigo and ores of all richness and precious stones of all sparkle and civilization of its own as tian or Grecian or Roman civilization, It holds the costliest tomb ever built and the most unique and wonderful idolatrous tem- ple ever opened, For practical lessons in this, my sixth discourse in round the world series, I show you that tomb and Indis. In a journey around the world it may rot Le easy to tell the exact point which divides the pilgrimage into: halves, Futthere was one structure toward which we were all th time traveling, and having seen that we fe that if we saw nothing more our expedition would be a success, That ons object was the Taj Mahal of India, It earth, The spirits net toenthrone a king, and the yf Athens was there, nud thespirit Sophia of C« wis there, sofrit of » rsburg there, anit is the crown of the ole of architacture ‘arthenon « of St ustantinople St. Izaak of St. the spirit of the Pisa wasthere, and the spir and of L and tower and o Venice, and the spirits of alitheg Was t its IT OOBIISK, rals, great at capitois for tha ly olises for the dead were there, called shauld spirits as to chie! the and wave we hi appointe wer its first measared its pass swept its fi Phe T first wall, rat ¢ s Taj stan 0 Ht eae red sand wirs has the Taj sracked, nor a arch sagead, nor a y osque of stone, ind filty yo not a wall Is |, noran The arred nor t heat oO 50 piers disintegrated a m i The story of age fnrtace ] und Skah Je il, et =torms 250 sUme- re 18 no ES On Hs while was begat! . te prop yell to ta the eonturi ine Know ir, Hie wes married ) % 0 lind at twenty-nine, life other As nee and ended ns ane th bloomed the 1:1 Lhe the began, rosebush perished, AO adorn this command of the TOs dormitory of the dead, king, Bagdad sent to build ita cornelian and Ceylon its lapis lnzuli, and Punjab its jasper, and Persia its amethyst, and Thibet its turquoise, and Lanka its sapphire, an and and sardonyx and nates Are ne « at the thia hi ling Yemen itn trate, blood stones, cnaic and ommon as though they were sebbles, You flud one spray o! vine beset with eighty and another with 100 Twen' y thousand men were twenty years in buliding it, and althouxh the labor was slave lahor, and not pald for, the building cost what would be about £80, 000.000 of our American monsay. of the eweleg have been picked of the wall by lconoclasts or conquerors, and substitutes of Jess values have taken their places, but the vines, the tracers, the arabesques, the spandreld, the entnbintures are so wondrous that you feel like dating the rest of your life from the day you first A saw them. In letters of black marble the whole of the Koran is spalist out in and on | this august pile, The King sleeps in the | tomb beside the queen, although ue intend- | ed to build a palace ns black as 1182 was | white on the opposite side of himself to sleep in, Indeed the foundation | of such a necropolis of black marble is still | there, and from the white to the black tem. | al jony moss stove, Boome out the son dethrone! him and imprisoned him, and it is wonderful that the king had any plees at all in whichito be buried, Instead of windows to let in the light upon the two marble cut so delieately thin that the sun shines through it as easily as throagh glass, luency, canopies, tenceries, lace work, ume brolderies of stone, {| Wao had heard of the wonderful resonance {of this Taj, and so I tried fr, tthers are mors sieaping echons in that butld- ing waiting to be wakenad by the human seending invisible choirs in full chant, and there was a reverbration that kept on long after one would have expected it to cease, replying, rolling, rising, falling, interwenv- {ing scunds that seemed modulated by be- { ings seraphic. | and bassos, soft, bigh, | emotional, commingling. | tiphonal of heaven, Butthere are four or five Taj Mahals, It has one appearance at | sunrise, another at noon, another at sunset { and another by moonlight, Indeed | silver trowel of the moon, and the golden trowel of the sunlight, and the leiden trowel of the storm build and rebuild the glory, so that it never seems twice deep, tremulous, deurs. From the top of the Taj, which is 250 feet high, springs a spire thirty [eet higher, and that is enameled gold. What an anthem in eternal rhythm! Lyrics and elegies in marble. Sculptured hosanna, Masonry as of supernatural hands. Mighty doxology in stone, I shall see nothing to equal it till I see the great white throne, and it Him from whose face the earth and s flee away. I'ne Taj is the pride of India, and especi- y of Mohammedanism, An English ofil- er at the fortreas told us that when the general mutiny in 1857 Mohamme- dans prcposed insurrection at Agra the Eng- lish Govarnment aimed the guns of the fort at the Taj and said, “You make insurrection, and that same day we will blow your Taj to and that threat ended the tiny at Agra, But I thought whil for the dead ail this « nana nro i the ator isposition for ykinz at that palace tO cover a handfal has Wbhiy gone from th 3A leum, How : 2 expend 000.000, which the a) ahal cost, f« ful of dust, but ev 1 better ir the built : ' What in npon other o nonor he departed emorial ¢ } memorial hi men i . ms, has nr ant : me- mo rvatories, ible means nory of loved and lot there an istons or monument in {ividing line 1orati int § kee ones fresh in min bes iate hea ‘ , but thers is tween reasonable ked vxiravaganoes, he tj Mahal } ap. tho be- nud nr 44 ied tome. t sam and to novus]. seco pel he es aman im underiaki 00 WAS 80 great thet at t aay the ¥ gods out tructure from the rock and eos ind heawaod its 1d dedicated it » many stone sgateways, Thee sculptured d Iptured devils, TAY ween vec] the shape into to all {eps Hes gigantic the grandenurs Ore We nee 10 this temple tkeepors leaning on How strange! Bat ] *hurchies and aa di- inning on the an i y Xia, iraning on the and life All the earth who lectures and pols. by inefMiclency t to visit this cave of Elephanta and be- » of what these doorkespers are doing, when instead of Jeaniug ou the angelic they lean on the demonine, : in these Elephanta caves everything is ou a Bamsonian and Titanian seale, With chis were dropped from nerveless hands at lenst eight centuries ago, the forms of the gods Brahma and Vishnu and Siva were cut into the evariasting rock, Biva is here rep ed by a figure sixteen (est nine inches hig ope-hall man and one-hall woman, Bun aline from the center of the forehead at ty #® tH foorkeep wh of 3) Ree den bad Doorkeepars ot health a thesextons and janitors spoiled sermons an ed the audiences 4 nons Asn angels o wi Inngs of vide this idol fato masculine and feminine, Admired as this idol is by many, it was 10 me ihout the worst thing that was ever cut into porphyry, perhaps because thers is hardiy anvthing on earth so chjectionabje as a be ing half man and half woman. Do be one or yer, my hearer, Man is admirable and wo- man is admirable, but either in flesh or trap. rock a compromise of the two is hideons, save us from «f{eminate men aod masculine women ! Yonder is the King Ravana worshiping. or the marriage of 8iva and Parnat!, Yonder is thumb of his right hand, He had sixty daughters, Seventeen of those daughters mothers of the human race, god with three heads, n crown wound with Yonder Is an The center God has neckinoss of skulls, m of rage, with forehead of snakes, nod in its hand is a voura, The jeft hand god has pleasures in all its jentures, and the hand has a flower, Bat tone, The chie! temple of this rock Is 1530 | toet square and bas twenty-six pillars rising {io the roof, After the conquerors of otter lands and the tourists from I lands have defnosd and ehippei and blast ¥ | ed and carried away curios snd mementos | for museums and homes, thera | are enough entrancements loft to detain one | unless he 18 cautious until he {8 down with | some of the malarins which encompnss this fsland or get bitten with some of its sunkes, Yes, I felt the chilly dampness of the pines | nnd loft this congress of gods; this pande- monium of demons, this pantheon ol indif- | ferent deities, and came to the steps and looked off upon the waters which rolled and flashed around the steam yacht that was waiting to return with us to Bombay. As we stepped aboard, our minds filled with the | idols of the Elephants caves, I was im- pressed as never befors with the thought { that man must have n raliglon of some kind | even if he has to contrive ons himsell, and | he must have a god even though he make it with his own hand, I rejoice to know the | day will coms when the one God of the uni. verse will be acknowledged throughout India. That evening of our return to Bombay visited the Young Men's Christian Associn- tion with the same appointments that you find in the Young Men's Christian Associa- tions of Europe and Amerien, and the night after that I addressed a throng of native ohildren who are in the schools of the Chris- tinn missions. Christian universities gather under their wing of benediction a host of the young men of this country. Bombay and Calcutta, the two great 1ercial cities of India, feel the elevating power of an aggressive Christianity, Episcopalian lHturgy, and Presbyterian Westminster cate- chism, and Methodist anxious seat, and Bap- tist waters of consecration now stand whers onee basest idolatries had undisputed swan The work which Shoemaker Carey inaugu- rated at Serampore, India, transiating the Bible into forty different dialects, and leav- ing his wornout boly amid the natives whom he had come to save, and golog up in- to the from which he wateh all the fleld—that work will pleted in the salvation of the millions din, and beside him gaz ng fro high places stand Bishop Heber and Alexan- der Duff and John Scudder and Macks who fell at Delhi, ani Moncrieff, who fel Cawnpur, and Polehampton, who fell Lucknow, and Freeman, who feil at F garb, and all heroes and com ean better be com. of In 1 the 81mo heavens heroines who | Christ's sake lived and died for the Christ: nization of Indin, and their heaven will be complete until the (Gianges that the ghats of heathen temples shail tw churches of the liviog God, an trampled wor thood Hindool have all the rights puret ased by vmid the cuts and stat [ his rind out, “Behold th eneal Bay to Arabian HAYAS 10 the © s lifted 1} ia ol him who OWN GSSANS ther! 8 0 } 1 and 1 Ocean, i sake mrnnns nati all ns Charles Mosier arrived in this eitly ha large drove of § Round Valley this city to San ITRErs Tuesday hased In from which ' and shipped Francisco, the Nort! 14 al ip from ity «, which, practi lown the hogs. ture of ti the wohd splayed the six » cally alone, The e markable mrently re irectliy respon- snine intelligence, : alized that they were sible for the a the drove, cor- ralled the drove at night without in- structions, routed them out inthe mornings and, when the trip had been completed took a merited rest. Bright, the red the dean of the pack, is perhaps one of the most intelligent animals in the world. Mr, Mosier had left the ranch and had reached a point some eleven miles from his home before he discoverad that he had left benind some very im- portant documents. He hurriedly wrote a note, inclosed it ina handker. chief, gave it to Brigh! and ordered the dog home, In about three hours the canine Crichton returned to his master, bear- ing in his mouth the documents he had been sent for, covering thus, in the time mentioned, twenty-two miles and bringing to his owner the neces. sary papers. — Ukiah (Cal.) Pross, safety of dog, ha IRI Electric Energy of the Thunder Cloud, The average thunder elond is esti mated by Professc: MeAdie to contain | about B00 horse-power of electric | energy. A flash of lightning a quarter lof a mile long practically means an | electromotive force of millions of volts. 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