REV. DR TALMAGE. THE 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 which the word India occurs, but it stands for a realm of vast interest in the time of Esther, as in our time, It yielded then, as now, spices and silks and cotton and rice and indigo and ores of all richness and precious stones of all sparkle and had a civilization of its own as marked as Egyp- tian or Grecian or Roman civilization, holds the costliest tomb ever built 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 «1 temple of India. In a journey around the world it may rot be easy to tell the exact point which divides the pligrimage into halves, LEutthere was one structure toward which we wero all the time traveling, and having seen4hat wo felt that If we saw nothing more our expadition would be a success, That one object was the Taj Mahal of India, It is the crown of the whole earth, The spirits architecture met to anthrone a king, and o spirit of tha Parthenon of Athens wus there, and thaspirit of Bt, Bophia onstantinople was there, and the spirit of zgank of St, Petersburg was there, ana the spirit of the Bap Pisa was 1} ' 1e spirits of the pyran and of Lu elisk, and of the Poro« tower of Nankin, of Bt, Mark's Venice, and the spirits of all the great t great cathedrals, great mausoleams, great sarcophagi, great eapitols f of great nec lises for the dead were there, And the presid genius of the throng with gavel of Paria bie sm y » the table of Russian 1 1 the throng spirits to for as to wh wear chiaf crown, i and wave the mous acclafr spirit « only book in of fer, a Was “Lot f Taj, ng of all the spirits / Taj M: sh: al « of 1ile early ig lve t fg gradual PO enough to int up the win tranee of ti LUrss ever along & deep stream of water in which all manner of brilliant fins swirl and float. Taare are signty-four fountains that spout fags ny a ahr eaty. Ji towers of pear! ln basins of stowy ee Tes white NBs NN EID ER } , ROT ar ialled AVE NOt ALT mers disiat story of suringe and 8 Jet al wos jed wn wars o dind a / ine life end other life rose blo rosebush wl nor ti grated a y of the dead, at the command this buildiag lapis lazuli, Persia its amet! and Lanka its sapphire, and Yo and Punns its nde and sardonyx chalesdo ARKIes Are AS the pebbles. You fad one spray with eighty and another with 100 stones, Twenty thousand men were twenty years in bullding it, and although the Or Was slave labor, and not pald , the building oot what wot $60,000,000 of our Amerien money ye of the Jowels Lave been out of ti wall iro MQUErors, Aan substitutes inken , places, ! aratbesques, the sp are 80 wondrous that the rest of your paw them its ) and Ceylon and unjah Ms jasper, aad its turquoise, on its agate, blood stones, ny and ommon ugh the its diame and ORM Vv wern of vine Lesot 8 iat Wis iro In letters « whole of the Koran this august pile, tomb beside the qn ed to build a palace a lack white ou the opposite side o himself to sieep fu. Ind of such a averopolis of hinek there, and from the white to the black te ple ot the dead a bridge wns cross, Lut the son Sutton i him and _wprisonsd him, and it; ndariul that the king bad any pine Are all in which to be buried, Instend of windows 10 let in the Hy upon the two tombe, there is nu trellis work of marble, marble cut so delicately thin that the sun shines through it as edslly as throaen gines, Look the world over nad find so much trans lency, eanopies, traceried, lage work, ow brolderive ol stone, ja spn be inter ne this wos the river for sod the foundation marble is #1) 10 | tiphonal of heaven, { trowel of thé It and tho | | an anthem in eternal rhythm! | elogios | ally of Mohammedanism, { lish Govarnment tistery of | { for mutiny at Agra ywers, | yr the living and | | and deluge s { lean o1 Bagdad sent to | cobra T Wao had heard of tha wonderful of this Taj, and so I tried it, I suppose thers are more sleeping echoes in that huild- ing waiting to be wakened by the human voles than in any building every constructed, I uttered one word, and there seemed de- soending tnvisible choirs in full chant, and | and Joft this congress of gods; ong { there was a reverbration that kept on after one would have expocted it to cease, FOSONANDCO | for | | museams and homes, there are enough entrancements loft to detain one uniess he is cautious until he is down with { some of the malarins which encompass this | island or get bitten with some of {ts snakes, Yes, 1 folt the chilly dampness of the place this pinde- monium of demons, this pantheon of indif- ferent defties, and onms to the steps and When a line of a hymn was sung, there wore { looked off upon the waters which rolled and replying, rolling, rising, falling, interwenv- ing sounds that seemed modulated by be- prs seraphie, and bassos, soft, high, deep, tremulous, | emotional, commingling. It was like an an- But there are four or It has one appearance at another at sunset Indeel five Taj Mahals, sunrise, another at noon, and another by moonlight, There were aerial sopranos | | idols flashed around the steam yacht that was waiting to return with us to Bombay, As we stepped aboard, our minds filled with the of the Elephanta caves, I was ime pressad as never before with the thought | that man must have a religion of some kind the | even if he has to contrive ons himself, and he must have a god even though he make it with his own hand, I rejoice to know the silver trowel of the aon, and the golden | day will come when the one God of the uni the sanlig and the leaden storm glory, 80 that it trowel of never seems twice alike, It has all moods, all complexions, all gran- deurs. From the top of the Taj, which is 250 feet high, springs a spire thirty feet higher, and that is enameled gold, What Lyrics and in marble, BSeulptured hosanna, Munsonry as of supernatural hands, Mighty doxology in stone, I shall ses nothing to equal it till I see the great wh throne, and on it Him from whose face the sarth and heavens flee away. The Taj is the pride of India, and An English offi us that when during anne aspoc! cer at the fortress told the general mutiny in the Mohamm 1ans proposed insurreetion at Agra the aimed the guns at the Taj and said, *'You make insurrection, and that same day we will blow your Tuj to atoms, and that threat ended the disposition " 1857 But I thought while looking at that palace for the dead all this constructed to o a handful of dust, but even that hand! probably gone from the mausoleum. How much better it would havy been to expend £60,000,000, which the 1 Mahal cost, for th living. What asylums it might have built for the slek, what houses for the homele What improvement our century has made upon other centuries in lifting in honor of the departed ymorial ehurches, momorial hospitals, wrial reading orial observatories, By all let us keep the un ry ol » " ones jeu sh in or i. and let one or m has me t} ti are be P ropri hea nent { Ax n yw t India, We had i that take the harbor of Bom siands, ar was 1 tof t Hghtaing but the al erie agitalions and the cloudy ruins of the mosph had eeased, | storm were piled up in the heavens, huge wh AERrkly purple enough to make the skies as grandly picturesque as the carthly ry amid which we moved, After ven AW awaiting n Moha ft anorad ons tempin 8X) at least ated Wav stone hace he we and to be leaning and saning comfort and if the earth stares and | imneflcionay Anta and be are d angel have I foriams w lemons Doorkeapers ation wp mn bo have 8] oned th DE ( 11 uy yught to visit this of apt ware of w doorkoepers en ir ad of leaning on the femonine, hadta caves « and Titunian seale iropped Irom ners hands at least «ight eanturies ago, the forms of the gods Brahma And Visti and Siva wera out into the evoriasting ro Siva is here reg resented by a fgur s sixteen feet nine inches high, one-hall man snd onehal! woman Ran a line from the seonter of the forehend traighit to the floor of the rock, and you d vide this {dol lato fase uilne and feminine, Admired us this idol Is by many, it was to me 1 ut the w thie that was ever out into pory ecause thers is hardly anvthi objestionabje nas a be ing hall mann lf woman, Do bs one or other, Man is admirable and w man Is admirible, but slither io flesh or trag two Is bi nd mas it these ing, ? they In these E a Bamsonian ols that w versthing is on Wii lone anise we rat ranps ng o ald ’ my neare rock a com} nis {ro the lnous Have us ninate men a ililae women Yonder ia King Ravana worshiping raitured representation o va and Parintl, Yonder is o! Brahma, horn 1som the He had sixty teen those daughters to Kasyapa and became the mothers of the human ros Yonder Is a god with thres heads, an crown wound with neckiae The right hand god is Inn par with forehead of soskes, ’ ight hand, of al ww of sknl yxysm of rage, Lia Ite hand is » 10 Jeft hand god has pleassura in all its toatures, and the band bas a flower, jut tosro are gods and goddesses in all direc. tions, teet square and bas twenty-six the rool, After the conquerors of other lends and the tourists (rom all | jnnds have defaced and ebipped and blast. nh 10 wi and rebuild the | | } The senter God has fwhothe yerge wi ill be India, Thnt evening of our return to Bombay I visited the Young Men's Christian Asoola- tion with the same appointments that you find in the Young Men's Christian Assocla- tions of Earops and Amerioa, and the night after that I addressed a throng of native *hildren who are in the schools of the Ohris- tinn missions, Christian universities gather un ler their wing of benediction a host of the young men of this country, Bombay and Caleutta, the two great commercial cities of India, fesl the elevating power of an agurossive Christianity, Episcopalian turgy, and Presbyterian Westminster cato- chism, nnd Methodist anxious seat, and Bap- tist waters of consecration now stand where once bhnsaest idolatries had undisputed sway, I'he work which Shosmaker Carey inaugu- rated at Serampore, India, transiating the Jible into forty different dialects, and leav- ing his wornout boiy amid the natives whom he had y save, and going up in- to the hwavens | 1 which he can better watch all the flald work will be com- pleted in 3 of In- iia, and from the same high places s ber and Alexan- ler Duff and foll at Dell acknowledged throughout the snivation lo him ai Zng p He you at Balai And then cama iho triumphs ot the battlemeats. So In ti Ms gospel cam- paign, which proposes capturing the wary ast citadel of idolatry and sin and hoisting aver it the banner of the cross we m ny bare us mighty opposit a1 1 Rcorn ti re Lao His Messenger, RI Fran ture of the w thie cally alone, The e¢ intelligence alized shat sible for the uderful £I1X Khe rought markable arently : TOSD alll they we safety wi the drove at nt ralled n- i un the 18 i been ried oat he dean of the most rid. Mr, and had leven miles discovered y vory ime hurriedly handker- ordered LL tad t Bright, the the paok, is | int Srey inteligen M or had reached MOK A IN red do 31 from his hon that had leit | portant do note, 1n na he wrote a chief the In about gave aad Og Dome three hors Crichton returned to | ing in his had been the time met the canine is master, bear. locaments he thus, in oty-two miles owner the neces Ukiah (Cal) Press. mouth th sent tioned, tw and bringing to his SALY papers for, covering — Eieetrie Energy of the Thander Cloud, The mated about energy. mile oe thander cloud is esti- by Professcr MoAdie to contain 300 of electrio A flash of lightning a quarter practic ally an eloctromotive force of of volta A flash occurs when the elec trical strain on the air is 1.87 pounds per square foot, so that the total eleo- tric energy io a cabie mile strained air just on the point of ing is about 70,000,000 foot tons, AvVeray horse power long ofl a means muons flash. that 18 to say, the energy required to raise a ton 70,000,000 feet high. In these days of “transformers” and “homes made lightning,” Mr. McAdie asks r he oan use this immense store of electricity in the higher atmosphere, It might be brought down by a modi {oation of Franklin's kite. Professor Trowbridge shows that a discharge I'lie chile! temple of thls rock is 13) keeps in the same path for 800-1000 pillars rising | part of a second, and imagines that a Hatep- down" transformer might be able to render it fit for practical use, | ed and carried away curios snd mementos | ~~ Atlanta Constitution, adnid to be 120 Years. Bed ! with it, too. of the | Nothing c The Rise of the Buckwheat Cake The leaven of yesterday ruins the cake of to-day. Don't spoil good buckwheat with dying raising- batter— fresh cakes want Royal Baking Powder. Grandma used to raise to-day’s with the souring left over of yesterday! old lady, she was up to the good old times. buckwheats Dear But these are days of Royal Baking Powder—fresh- ness into freshness raises freshness. And this is the way the buckwheat cake of to-day is made : Two cups of Buckwheat, one cup of wheat flour, two tablespoons of Royal Baking Powder, all sifted well together one half teaspoonful of salt, Mix with milk isto a thin batter and bake at once on a hot griddle. 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