Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 46, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 14 June 1877 — Page 7

A FAMOUS MOSQUE.

Charles Warren Stoddard in Church of St. Sophia.

Constantine's Golden Temple.

Twice Destroyed and Twice Rebuilt—"The Glory and the Shame of Christendom."

Correspondence of Him Francisco Chronic.il. Over the roofs of Stamboul rise the thousand minarets of the mosques that are scattered everywhere through the length and breadth of the great city. More than a million souls are within call of the muezzinc who proclaim Mohammed the Prophet of Allah, and prayer better than sleep. In Stamboul the mosques are numerous, and three or four of them arc marvels of architecture. Close to the Seraglio there is a temple that seems not to have been made with hands. Indeed, tradition attributes much of its beauty to the angles, under whose immediate direction it was reared. Looking upon this superb structure over the roofs ot Stamboul your eye is fixed in wonder and delight upon the nine domes heaped together one upon the other, like a cluster of huge bubbles with the largest one floating at the top, where it 6eems to swim in the air and suspend the others. The minarets that spring from the tour corners of the building are as slenderly and elegantly proportioned as wax tapers, and the three galleries that girdle them are as chaste and as significant as if they were je veled rings betrothing eartii and heaven. This miraculous njofeque—it is as voluptuous in form as any Queen of the east—is

"AYA 60FIA."

The Saint Sophia that fifteen centuries ago sprang into existence as if by magic, and was dedicated by the Emperor Constantino to the Divine WisJom. the Word, the second parson in the Holy Trinity. Is there a termle under the sun whose history is more romantic, whose fate is more pitiful, whose future is more uncertain? Listen to the marvelous story of Saint Sophia: In the twentieth year of the reign of Canstantine, A. D. 325, the same in which the Council of Nice was opened and the foundations of the new city walls and palaces of Constanti nople were laid, arose this temple of Divine Wisdom. A hundred architects superintended it under each architect were a hundred masons. An angel had appeared to the Emperor in a dream and given orders as to the distribution of these artisans and the nature ot their work. Five thousand masons were placed upon the right side of the building and 5,000 upon the left. The Emperor, dressed in coarse linen, his head bound with a cloth and a stick in his hand, daily visited the workmen and hastened the progress of the bnilcling by

URIBKS AND GIFTS.

The walls and arches were constructed of brick, overlaid'with the rarest marble, granite and pophyry Phrygian white marble, with rose-coiored stripes, green marble irom Laconica blue from Libya black celtic marble, with white veins Bosporus marble, white with black veins Thessalian, Molossian, Proconnesian marble Egyptian starred granite and Saiti^porphvrj—all these were lavished upon the inner walls of the temple. Antique columns were brought irom the ruins of the most faitjous temples of the ancient faith and wronglit into the stiucture—columns ol Isis and Osiris pillars from the Temples of the Sun at Baalbek, of the Sun and Moon at Heliopolis and Ephesus, of Pallas at Athens, of Phoebus at Delos, and of Cybele at Cvzicus. The mortar was made with barley-water, and the foundations were cemented with a mastic made of lime and barley water. The chalk-white tiles trom Rhodes that covered the arch of the cupolas bear the inscription "God has founded it, and it will not be overthrown. God will support it in the blush of the dawn." These tiles were laid by twelves, and after each layer relics were" built in while the priest9 sang hymns and said prayers for

THE DURABILITY OF THE EDIFICE And the prosperity of the Church. When the question arose whether the light should fall upon the high altar through one or two arched windows, the Emperor and the architects were in a kot dispute, but an Angle appeared and di rected that the light should fall through three windows in honor of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The altar, more costly than Gold, was to be composed of every precious material bedded together with gold and silver, incrusted with pearls

an^

jewles. The taberna

cle was a tower of gold, ornamented with golden lillies, and above

was across of

gold adorned with precious stones, and weighing five and seventy pounds. The throne of the Patriarch and the seven priests were of silver about the altar were golden pillars, and by the pulpit stoood a golden

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one hundred pounds

in weight, glittering with carbuncles and pearls. The sacred vessels were of purest gold there were 42 000 chalice cloths worked in pearls and jewels. Four and twenty coloss.il books ot the Evangelists, with goldea covers, weighing each twen ty hundredweight. The gold in

THE VINE-FORMED CANDELABRA For the high altar, the pulpit, and the gallerv for females amounted to 6000 hundred-weight of the purest quality. There were two candelabra adorned with figures, all of gold, each weighing lit pounds, and seven golden crosses ot 100 pounds each. The doors were of ivor amber and cedar, the principal door silver. Three doors were veneered with plan lis said to have been taken from Noah's ark. Above the holy font in the church there were four trumpets blown by sculptured angels, supposed to be the very trumpets at whose blast the walls of Jericho were overthrown. The floor was to have been paved^ with gold, but the wise Justinian abandoned this idea, fearing that his successor might be tempted to dia mantle the temple. The floor was therefore of clouded marble, over which faint waving lines imitated the advance of the sea, and from the four corners of the temple these mimic waves flowed silently toward the four vestibules, in the manner of the four rivers of Paradise. At the fountain of the priests twelve shells received the rain-wntei, and twelve lions, twelve leopards and twelve does spat forth ag.un. An an

gel gave the plan and the name for the Temple. It remained for an angle to lurnish

PART OF THE FUNDS

for its construction.. When money was failing, though taxes were imposed upon the people of all classes, and even the salaries of the professors were applied to the building, this angel appealed and directed a train of mules into a subterran ean vault, laden with eighty hundredweight of gold and delivered the same over to the Emperor. Seven and and a half years the artisans toiled upon tbe material as it slowly accumulated eight and a half years the building grew, and when it was finished and furnished, on Christmas eve, A. D. 548, the Emperor drove in state to St. Sophia, entered the church with the patriarch Eutychius, ran alone from the portico to the pulpit, and with outstretched hands he cried, "God be praised, who hath esteemed me worthy to complete such a work. Solomon, I have surpassed thee One thousand oxen, one thousand sheep, six hundred doer, one thousand pigs, ten thousand cocks and hens were slaughtered, and together with 30,000 bushels of corn were distributed among the poor. On the following morning, Christmas day, the church was formally opened and the sacrifices and thanksgivings continued fourteen days, until the Epiphany. What followed is scarcely less marvelous.

TWICE THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED By fire and twice rebuilt twice th« great dome fell and twice it was restrored. The arches, having resounded to the mu

sic

of Chrysostom's voice, came at last to echo the blasphemies of the infidel and the groans of the wounded and dying At the capture of Constantinople the clergy, the virgins dedicated to God and a multitude of people of all classes crowded into the church and sought refuge before the high alter. Mohammed at the head of the Osmalis rode into the sanctuary, forced his way through the affrighted throng and, leaping from his hoise at the alter he cried, "'There is no God but God, and Moham.ned is the Prophet!'' A hideous scene of slaughter followed and the temple was desecrated. The Sultans have despoild it ot its pictorial beauty have added minarets and abutments to support the tottering southeast wall have caused the rich frescoes to be plastered over with a yellowish substance have chipped away, whereever it was possible, the carved symbol of the cross have hung grett disks graven with the names of the four companions of tha Prophet over the seraphims under the dome with their slender wings crossed above and below them.

BENEATH THE COPULA.

Is inscribed, in fantastic and beautiful characters, a line from the Koran ''God is the light of the heavens and of the earth." As we entered the porch of Saint Sophia, protected by our dragoman, we were gently but emphatically requested to put oft" our shoes. We could keep on our hats if wc chose—you always wear them in a mosque—but we instinctively doffed our hat at the threshold of the ancient church and entered it stock-ing-footed in solemn silence, bearing our shoes in one hand and our hat in the other. The first impression we received was almost overpowering. The vastness and elegance of the interior, the solemnity and majesty ot the decorations, the tranquillity that broods over all the place, fills one with religious a.ve. The seraphims fold their six great wings above you and from the walls, from the marble galleries, from the shadow-filled cupolas a hundred vague forms gradually discover themselves—the ghosts of the saints and angels that once hallowed this lovely temple. I know not how many crosses I traced in the mutilated sculpturing. The original cross is gone, but the chisel has left the form there as exactj' as ever. There

MADONNA FACES

That seem to exhale from the thick, d_ull plasters that hive been laid over them. You see them, vet can hardly convince yourself that you see them, they ure so like half-imagined pictures. In the apse —the hollow and naked apse that once sheltered the high altar—there is a shadow thac haunts you you turn to it again and again, and study it from every part of the building. By and by the shadow begins to take shape. It is a faint cloud that deepens in certain lights, and when you are at the exact angle and the fortunate hour has come you Bee it plainly enough—the sorrowful but forgiving countenance of the Redeemer as it looks down upon the desolated and desecrated sanctuary. The apse of St. Sophia is due east, the holy house of Mecca is southeast of Stamboul, theretore, as every Mussulman must pray with his face turned to Mecca, the Mihrab, or Mussulman altar, is erected in an angle of the mosque. Almost any hour of the day you find rows of the prayerful stretched crosswise through the mosque, prostrating themselves on the rich cat pets that cover the marble floor. Two flags, suspended near their pulpit, commemorate.

THE TRIUMPH OF ISLAM

Over Judaism and Christianity, of the Koran over the Old and New Testaments. There is a prayer-carpet of Mohammed a very precious relic a sweating column, the moisture of which is said to produce miraculous cures: a cold window, famous as productive of science, inasmuch as any one who sits in the draft thereof is sure to study with exceptional success. They show also among the relics ot the mosque a small sarcophagus, which is called the Cradle of our Lord, and a cup or bowl in which ihe Blessed Virgin is said to have bathed her baby but these traditions are purely Turkish. While we wandered over the vast building and were being besieged byTurks who had handfuls of fragments from the mutilated mosaics, and were eager to dispose of them at a bargain, I heard the murmurs of voices in the mosque. Looking about me I saw the wise men of the East seated upon tat cushions in the midst of a circle of youths, expounding the Koran that lay open on a tiny table richly inlaid with pearl. In distant pans of the building there were singing-boys committing the Koran to memory. They were the acolytes of the mosque, and some of them had remarkably fine voices. One 'ittle fellow who was seated in an inclosure under the gall ery threw back his head and

CAROLED LIKE A LARK.

The Turkish chant has no more method in it than a lark's song. It is appar ently the spontaneous expression of the singer, who yoluntarily yields to every passion of the heart, and finds a sensual pleasure in the distracting vagaries of his own delightful voice. We paused to listen. The youngster was rocking his bodv 10 and fro and sending deiiciou

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notes aloft like vocal sunbeams sparkling among the nine dgmes of the mosque. He stopped suddenly, like a bird in a cage starvled and curious then stretched out his slender, hand for alms gave us a baby scowl that had something of inherited hate in it, and shut his small mouth with scorn. We passed on and listened among the columns at a little distance. He stretched his neck and stared after 11s again began rocking to and fro piped a little, chirped^softly to himselt, and then, with one daring flight, soared into the seventh heaven of melody and floated there in an ecstacy of fanaticism. During the seven holy nights of Islam, in the fast month of Ramazan, 10,000 lanterns blaze before the 1 gend at the top of the cupola 'God is the light of the heavans and of the earth." The lanterns are

FANTASTICALLY MINGLED.

With huge shell and glittering pendants. The mosque is a palace of fire. On the night of the Predestination-the night in which the Koran was sent down from heaven^the Sultan repairs with his whole Court to Saint Sophia for midnight prayers. At the close of the service he retir.es to the Seraglio attended by a thousand torch-bearers, and there his mother brings him a virgin slave, who is at once borne away to his harem. From the dome of Saint Sophia flashes a crescent that is visible a hundred miles at sea. It mav be seen even from the summit of the Bithyman Olympus. It stands where the the cross stood, and marks the glory and the shame of Christendom. The temple that was the pride of the earth has fallen from the hands of angels to be the threshold of that harem wherein is publicy sacrified tke lily of virgin ity'and at a rid— culously early age, too! C. W. Stodard.

FOLLOWING THE SEA.

A TRUE STORY.

At the time of "the great earthquake of '68," said Mr Swiddler—Wiiliam Swiddler of Calaveras—I was at Arica, Peru. I have not a map by me, and am not certain that Arica is not in Chili, but it can't make much difference there was earthquake all along there.

Sam Baxter was wilh me I think we had gone

from

San Francisco to make a railway, or something. On the morning of the 'quake. Sam and I had gone down to the beach to bathe. We had shed our boots and begun to moul', when there was a slight tremor of the earth, as if the elephant who supports it was pushing upwards, or lying down and getting up again. Next, the surges, which were flattening themselves upon the sand and dragging away such small trifles as they could lay hold of, began racing out seaward, as if they had received a telegraphic dispatch that somebody was not expected to live. This was needless, for we did not expect to live

When the sea had receded entirely out ot sight, we started after it for, it will be remembered, we had come to bathe and bathing without some kind ot water is not refreshing in a hot climate. I have heard that bathing in asses' milk is invigorating, but at that tirrie I had no dealings with other authors I have had no dealings with them since.

For the first four or five miles the walking was very difficult, although the grada was tolerably steap. The ground was soft there were tangled forests of seaweed, old rotting ships, rusty anchors, human skeletons, and a multitude of things to impede the pedestrian. The floundering sharks bit our le^s as we toiled past them, and we were constantly slipping down upon the flat fish strewn about like orange-peel on a sidewalk. Sam, too, had stuffed his shiat-tront with such a weight of Spanish doublons from the wreck of an old galleon, that I had to help him across the worst places. It was very dispiriting.

Presently away on the western horizon, I saw the sea coming back. It occured to ine that I did not wish it to come back. A tidal wave is nearly always wet, and I was now a good ways from home, with no means of making a fire.

The same was true of Sam, but he did

not

appear to think of it in that way. He stood quite still a moment with his eyes fixed on the advancing line of water then turned to me, saying, very earnestly: "Tell you what, William I never wanted a ship so bad from the cradle to the grave! I would givem o-r-e for a ship! —more than tor all the railways and turnpikes you could scare up! I'd give more than a hundred, thousand, million dollars! I would—I'd give all I'm worth, and all my Ophir shares, for—just—one —little—ship!"

To show how rightly he could part with his wealth, he lifted his sr.irtout of trousers, unbosoming himself of his douboons, which tumbled about his feet, a golden storm.

By this time the tidal wave was close upon us. Call that a wave! It was one .solid green wall of water, higher than NiagaraJKall, stretching as far as we could see to the right and lelt, without a break in its towering front! It was by no means clcar what we ought to do. The moving wall showed no projections by means of which the most daring climber could hope to reach the top. Theie wa« no ivy there was no winder-ledges. Stay 1—there was the lighting rod! No, there wasn't ar.y lighting rod. Of course not!

Looking despairingly upward, I made a tolerable good beginning at thinking of all the mean actions I had wrought in the flesh, when I saw projecting beyond the crest of the wave a ship's bowsprit, with a man sitting on it, reading a newspaper. Thank fortune, we were saved!

Falling upon our knees with tearful gratitude, wc got up again and ran—ran fast as we could, I suspect for now the hole fore-part ofj,the ship bugded through the water directly above our heads, and might lose its balance any moment. If we had only brought along our umbrellas!

I shouted to the man on the bowsprit drop us aline. He merely replied that his correspondence was already very onerous, and he hadn't any pen and ink.

Then I told him I wanted to get aboard. He said I would find one on the beach, about three leagues to the south'ard, where the "Nancy Tucker" went ashore.

At these replies I was disheartened. was not so much that the man withheld assistance, as that he made puns. Presently, however, he folded his newspaper, put it carefully away in his pocket

went

and got a line, and let it down to

us' just as we were about to give up the

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little grog, we. were hauled up. I can assure yOu that it was no fine experience to go up in tliat way, close to the smooth vertical front of water, with the whales 'tumbling out all round and above us, and the sword-fishes nosing UB pointedly with vulgar curiosity.

We had no sooner set foot on deck, and got Sain disengaged from the hook, then the purser stepped up with book and pencil. "Tickets, gentlemen."

We told him we hadn't any tickets, and he ordered us to be set ashore in a boat. It was represented to him that this was quite impossible under the circumstances but he replied that he had nothing to do with circumstances. Nothing wonld move him till the captain, who WAS really a kind-hearted man, came on deck and knocked him overboard. We were now stripped of our clothing, chofed all over with stiff brushes, rolled on our stomachs', wrapped in flannels, laid before a hot stove in the saloon, and strangled with scalding brandy. We had not been wet, nor had we swallowed any sea-water, but-the surgeon said this was the proper treatment. I suipect, poor man, he did not often get the opportunity t» resuscitate anybody: in tact, he admitted he had not had any sijch case as ours for years. It is uncertain what he might have done to us if the tender-hearted captain had not thrashed him into his cabin, and told us to go on deck.

By this 'ime the ship was passing above the town of Arica, and we were about to go astern and fish a little, when she grounded on a hill top. The captain hove out all the anchors he had about him and when the«"water went swirling back to its legal level, taking the town along for company, there we were, in the midst of a charming agricultural country, but at some distance from seaport.

At sunrise nex-morning we were all on deck. Sam. sauntered aft to the pinnical, cast his eyes carelessly upon the eompass, and' uttered an ejaculation of astonishment. "Tell you, captain," he called out, 'this has been a direr convulsion of naire than you have any idea. Everything been screwed iij ht round. Needle points due south!" "Why, you cussed lubber!" growled the skipper, moving up and taking a look,

It p'int* d'rcctly to labbard, an' there's the sun, dead ahead!" Sam turned and confronted him, with a steady gaze 01 ineffable contcmpt. "Now who said it wasn't dead ahead!" —tell me that. Shows how much you know about earthquakes. ,Course, I didn't mean just this continent, nor just thisearih: I tell you the whole thing's turned!"

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Sure Throats, Stono and Gravel, Tic-Doulour-cux, Tumors, Ulco 1 .Worms of all kinds. Weakness from an causo, etc.

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