Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 16, Number 43, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 9 January 1895 — Page 3

TALMAGE’S SERMON. A Visit to tho Magnificent Mausoleum of Queen Montaz, Reared at the Cost of Sixty Millions of Dollars, and the Most Superlj and Perfect Work of Art in the World—A Black Tomb. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, in continuing his 'Round the World series of sermons through the press, gives the following for publication this week. Its subject, “Tomb and Temple” is based on the text: . From India even unto Ethiopia.—Esther 1., 1. In all the Bible this is the only t!ook in 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 Egyptian or Grecian or Roman civilization. It holds the costliest tomb ever built, and the most unique and wonderful idolatemple ever opened. For practical lessons, in this, my sixth discourse in “ "Round the World” series, I show you that tomb and temple of India. In a journey around the world it may not be easy to tell the exact point which divides the pilgrimage into halves. Rut there was one structure toward which we were all the time traveling, and, having seem that, we felt that if we saw nothing more our expedition would be a success. That one object was tjie Taj Mahal of India. 0 It is the crown flf the whole earth. Tlyi spirits of architecture .met to enthrone a king, and tlie spirit of the. Parthenon of Athens was there; and- the spirit of Ijit. Sophia, of Constantinople was there: and the spirit of St. Izank of St. Petersburg* was there: and the spirit of tho Baptistery of Pisa was there: and the spirits of the Great Pyramid, and of Luxor Obelisk, and of the Porcelain 'Power of Nankin* and of St- Mark's of Venice; and the spirits of all the great towers, great cathedrals, great mausoleums, great sarcophagi, greatcapitols for the living, and of great necropolises for -.thedead, were there. And the presiding genius of the throng with gavel of Parian marble smote, the table of Russian malachite, and called the throng of spirits to order and called for a vote as to which spirit should wear the chief crown, and mount the chief throne, and Wave the chief scepter,and by unanimous acclaim the cry Was: “Long live the spirit of the Taj, king , of all the spirits of architecture! Thine is the T.nj lndiar’ The building is about six miles from Agra, and as we rode out in tin* early dawn we .lizard nothing but theand wheels that pulled and turned us ■along tire road, al every yard of which our expectation rose until we had some thought that.we might be disappointed at the lirst glimpse, as some'" say they were'disappointed, lint bow chn any one be disappointed with 1 he/i’n j is almost as greqt a wonder to me as the Taj itself. Them are some -people always disappointed,.and who knows but that having entered Heaven they lhay criticise the architecture of the temple, and-the cutof the white robes, arid say that the River of life is not quite up to their and that the white horses on which the conquerors ‘ ride seem a little spring-halt or spavined?

1 “-My son said: “There it is.” I said: “Where?'’ For tlijit which he saw to be the building seemed to me to .he more like the morning cloud blushing tinder the stare of the rising sun. It . seemed hot so much built up from earth*as let down front heaven. Fortunately, you stop at an elaborated gateway of red sandstone one-eighth of a mile from the Taj, an entrance* so high, so arched, so graceful, so foilrdomed, so painted, and chiseled, and scrolled that 3am come very gradually upon the Taj, which structure is enough to intoxicate the eve, and stun the imagination, and entrance tlie soul. We go up the winding stairs of this majestic entrance of the gateways ai\d buy a few pictures and examine a few curios, and from it look off,upon the Taj, and descend to the pavement of tlj£ garden that raptures everything between the gateway and the ecstasy of marble and precious stones. You pass along a deep stream of water in which all manner of brilliant tins swirl and lloat. There are eighty-four fountains that spout and bend and arch themselves to fall in showers of pearl in basins of snowy,, whiteness. Beds of all imaginable flora greet the nostrils before they do the eye, and seem to roll in waves of color as 3 r ou advance towards the vision you are soon to have of what human genius did when it did its best; moon flowers, lilacs, marigolds. tulips, and almost everywhere the lotus; thickets of bewildering bloom; on either side trees from many lands bend their arboreseenee over your head, or seem with convoluted branches to reach out their arms towards 3*oll in welcome. On and oh .you go amid tamarind, and cypress, and poplar, and creamier, and yew, and sycamore, and banyan, and palm, and trees, of such noi*d branch and leaf and girth, you cease to ask their name or nativity. As you approach the door of the Taj one experiences a strange sensation of awe, and tenderness, and humility, and worship. The building is only a grave, but what a grave! Built for a queen, who, according to some, was very good, and according to others was v&ry bad. I choose to think she was very good. At liny rate, it makes me feel better to think that this commemorative pile was set up for. the immortalization of virtue rather than vice. The Taj is a mountain of white marble, but never such walls faced each other with exquis'teness; never such a tomb was cut from block of alabaster; never such a congregation of precious stones, brightened and gloomed, and blazed, and chastened, and glorified a building since sculptor's

chisel cut its first curve, or painter's pe t ncil traced its* first figure, or mason’s plumb-line measured its first wall, or architect’s compass swept its first circle—. The Taj liafc sixteen great archfed windows, four at each corner. Also at each of the four corners of the Taj stands a minaret one hundred and thirty-seven feet high. Also at each side of this building is a splendid mosque of red sandstone. Two hundred and fifty years has the Taj stood, and yet not a wall is cracked, nd[r a mosaic loosened, nor an arch sagged, nor a panel dulled. The of two hundred and fifty winters have not marred, nor the heats of two hundred and fifty summers disintegrated a . marble. There, is no story of age written by mosses on its white surface. Montaz, the queen, was beautiful, and Shah Julian, the king, here proposed to let-all the centuries of time know it. She was married at twenty years of age and died at twenty-nine. Her life ended as another life began; as the rose bloomed the rose bush perished. To adorn this dormitory of the dead, at the command of the lying Bagdad sent to this building its carnelian, and Ceylon its lapis lazuli, and Punjab its jasper, and Persia its amethyst, and Thibet its turquoise, and Lanka its sapphire, and Yemen its agate, and Puiiah its diamonds; and blood-stones, and sardonyx, and. chalcedony, and nioss agates are as. comihon as though they were pebbles. You find one spray of vine beset with eighty, gnd another with one hundred stones. Tweqty thousand men were twenty years in building it, and, although the labor was slave labor, and not paid for, the building cost* what would be about sixty million dollars of our American money. Some of the jewels have been picked out of the .walls by iconoclasts or conquerors, and substitutes of less .value have taken their places, but the. vines, the traceries, the arabesques, the spandrels, the entablatures an*, so wondrous that you feel like dating the rest of your life fromythe day you lirst saw them. In letters <*/ black marble the whole of the Koran is spelled out in and on this august pile. The king 'sleeps in the tomb beside the queen, although lie intended to build a palace as black as this was white on P the .opposite side of the river for himself to sleep in. v ,lndeed,- the foundation of such a necropolis of black marble is still there, and from the white to the black temple of the dead a bridge was to cross; but the son dej-lirdned him and imprisoned liiiu, and it is wonderful that, the king had any place at all in which to be buried. Instead of windows to let in tlie upon the two tombs, there is a trellis work of marble, marble cut so delicately thin that the sun shines through it as easily as through glass. Look.tlie world over and find so much translueency; canopies, traceries, lace work, embroideries of stone.

But I thought while looking at that palace for the dead, alii this constructed to .cover a handful ‘of* dust, but even that handful lias probably gone from the mausoleum. How much better it would have been to expend sixty million dollars, which the Taj Mahal cost, for the living. What asylums it might build for the sick, what houses for the homeless! What improvement our century has made upon other centuries in lifting in honor of the departed memorial churches, memorial ’hospitals, memorial reading rooms, memorial "observatories. By all possible means let us keep - the memory of departed lovcd ojics fresh in mind, and let there be an appropriate headstone or monument in the cemetery, but there is a dividing line between reasonable commemoration and wicked extravagance. The Taj Mahal has its uses as architectural achievement, eclipsing all other architecture, but as a memorial" of a departed wife and mother it expresses no more than the plainest slab in many a country graveyard. The best monument we can any of us have built for us when we are gone is in the memory-of those whose sorrows we have alleviated, in the wounds we have healed, in the kindnesses we have done* in the ignorance we have enlightened, in the recreant we have reclaimed, in the souls we have saved! Sucli a monument is built out of material more lasting than marble or bronze, and will stand amid the eternal splendors long after the Taj Mahal of India shall have gone down in the ruins of a world of which it \vus the costliest adornment. But I promised to show you not only a tomb of India,, but a unique heathen temple, and it is a temple underground. And now we come near the famous temple hewn from one rock of porphyry at least eight hundred years ago. On either side of the chief temple is a chapel, these cut out of the same stone. So vast was the undertaking, and to the Hindoo was so great the human impossibility that they sky the gods scooped out the structure from the rock, and carved the pillars, and hewed its shape into gigantic idols, and dedicated it to all the grandeurs. We climb many stone steps before we get to the gateways. The entrance to this temple -has sculptured doorkeepers leaning on sculptured devils. How strange! But I have seen doorkeepers of churches and auditoriums who seemed to be leaning on the demons of bad ventilation and asphyxia. Doorkeepers ought to be leaning on the angel of health, and comfort, and life. All the sextons and janitors of the earth who have spoiled sermons and lectures, and poisoned the lungs of audiences by inefficiency ought to visit this cave of Elaphanta and beware of what these doorkeepers are doing, when instead of .leaning on the angelic they lean on the demoniac. In these Elephanta caves everything is on a Samsoniau and Titanian scale. With chisels that were dropped from nerveless hands at least eight centuries ago. the forms of the gods Brahma, and Vishnu, and Siva were cut into the everlasting rock. Siva is here represented by a figure sixteen feet nine inciies high, one-half, man and one-

half woman. Run a line fromJtlie center of the forehead straight to the floor of the rock, and you divide this idol into masculine and feminine. Admired as the idol is by many, it was to me about the worst tiling that was eVer cut into porphyry, perhaps because there is hardly anything on earth so objectionable as a being half man and half woman. Do be one or the other, my hearer. Man is admirable, and woman is admirable, but either in flesh or trap rock a compromise of the two is hideous. Save us from effeminate men and masculine women. That evening of our return to Bombay! visited the Young Men’s Christian association with the same appointments that you find in the Young Men's Christian association of Europe and America, arid the night after that I addressed a throng of native children who are in the schools of the Christian missions. Christian universities gather under their wing of benediction a host of the young men of this country. Bombay and Calcutta, the two great commercia cities of India, feel the elevating power of an aggressive Christianity. Episcopalian liturgy and Presbyterian Westminster catechism, and Methodist anxious seat, and Baptist waters of consecration now stand where once basest idolatries had undisputed sway. The work which Shoemaker Carey inaugurated at Serampore, India, translating the Bible into, forty different dialects, and leaving his worn-out body amid the natives whom he had come to save, and going up into the heavens from which he can better watch all the.field—that Work will be completed in the salvation of. the millions of India; and beside him, gazing from the same high Bishop Heber, and Alexander Duff, and .John Seudder. and Mackay, who fell at Delhi, and Monerieff,who fell at Cawnpore, arid Pbleliampton, who fell at Lucknow, and Freeman, who fell at Futtyghur, and all the Heroes and heroines who, for Christ's sake, lived and died for the Christianization of India; and their Heaven will not be complete! until the Ganges that washed the Ghats of heathen teifiples shall roll between churches of the living God. and tlic trampled womanhood, of liiiidooisin shall have all the rights purely; rse*d by him who amid the cuts- arid stubs of his own assassination cried nut: “Behold thy mother!” and.from Bengal bjny to Arabian ocean, and from the Himalayas to ‘the coast of Coromandel there be lifted hosannas to Him who -died to redeem all nations. In that (lay Elephanta cave will he one of *the places where idols are “east to tin* moles and .bats.”.-If any clergyman asks me, as an unbelieving minister... of religion once asked the duke of Wellington, “Do you not think that the work of converting the Hindoos is all a. practical farce?” I answerhini as Wellington answered the unbelieving minister: “Look to your marching orders', sir!” Or if any one having joined in the gospel attack feels like retreating, I say to him, as Gen. Ilav.elocksaid to a retreating regiment:’ “The enemy are in fcqift, not in the rear,” and leading them again into the fight, though two horses had been shot under him.

InTlced, the taking of this world for Christ will he no holiday celebration, biit as tremendous as when in India during the mutiny of lS')7, a fortress manned by Sepoys, was to be captured bv Sir Col hi Campbell and the army of Britain. The Sepoys hurled under the approaching colums burning missiles and grenades, arid fired on them shot and shell, and poured on them from the’ ramparts burning oil, until, a writer who witnessed it says: “It was a picture of pandemonium.” Then Sir Colin addressed his troops, saying: “Remember the women and children must be rescued!” and his men replied: “Ay! Ay! Sir Colifa! We stood by you at Balaklava, and* will stand by you here.” And then came the triumphal assault of the battlements. So is the gospel campaign which proposes capturing the very eitadelof idolatry and sin, anil - h\irtjjiff*(Vve r it the banner of the Cross, we may have hurled upon us mighty opposition and scorn arid obloquy, and many may fall before the work is done, yet at every call for new onset let the cry of the church be, “Ay! Ay! Great Captain of our salvation: we stood by thee in other conflicts, and we will stand by thee to the last!” And then, if not in this world, then from the battlements of the next, as the last Appolyonic fortification shall crash into ruin, vve will join in the shout: “Thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory!*’ “Hallelujah! for the Lord God Omnipotent reigneth!” The Growth of Jerusalem. Travelers who have recently visited Jerusalem report that the historic city is just now growing in size and population at a rapid rate. The Jews build . the greater number of houses? but Russians, Greeks and Armenians are also busy. When we consider the part, which this celebrated place is soon to fill in connection with the fulfillment of that prophecy which relates to the downfall of the Turkish empire, according to interpretation of it, this sudden growth and consequent rise in importance as a bv seen to be exactly what we would naturally expect. lie Ye Prepared. This is a short world; whether it be filled with joy or sorrow, lighter shade, it matters little. Here we are to work and wait, hat soon all will be over and the eternal day will dawn—the clouds and shades and stm-ms will pass; andO that we, when tlie morning breaks, may “as children of light'’ be found watching and waiting, prepared for Jlie bright ami evertasting (lay.—Sabbath Advocate. —And tlie light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; ahd the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for by thy sorceries are aU nations deceived.—liiblo.

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