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JOE'S WIFE.
E last raid of the Indians
on the overland trail
through Kansas was
made in 1867, and such
was its strength that
for two weeks they had
possession of ten sta-
tions and 100 miles of road. During this
tires, ;twenty passengers, forty employes
of the stage company, five mail riders
and a dozen ;•eldiers were killed. Seven
coaches, two wagou trains and nine sta-
tions were burnod, and e00 or more fine
horses were run off or killed. The only
station saved was Reilly's, and Pm going -
to tell you the story.
' The stage company had asked for sol-
diers to help beat the Indians off, but the
request come so late that in only two or
three cases could the troopers be placed.
She& as made a twenty -mile ride to
Reilly's by night, but only four reached
the place.
We expected to reach Reilly's before
the Indians could attack, They were on
their way there and only five miles dis-
tant when we ran into them. They pur-
sued as within rifle shot of the station,
and when day ight came we counted over
100 mounted warriors encircling th.e spot.
We expected to find there two station
hands, a stage driver, at least one mail
rider, and perhaps a couple of passengers
who had gone west by the last coach. We
found only a woman, a wounded man and
a corpse. The woman was the wife of the
wounded man, who was .1oe Harper, a
stage driver, and the dead man was one
of the station hands.
On the afternuon of the clay before Har -
per's stage had been attacked eight miles
away. His 4e-ife and two prospectors were
passengers, Both prospectors. were on top
of the stage. Both were killed and fell to
the ground, and the driver received a bal-
let in the leg, but brought the stage in.
The station hand had been fired. on while
out looking for a stray horse and had
reached shelter to die an hour before our
arriv .1. Had the Indians pushed forward
and attacked they would have had an easy
vietory, but having no fear that the sta-
tion would be re-enfoeed during the night
they had decided to wait until next morn-
ing. There had been, another station
hand, but early in the evening, unknown
to the woman and her wounded husband,
he had mounted one of the hoses and
fled for his life, though it was subsequent-
ly ascertained that he was captured about
seven miles away and put to death by
torture.
We had, then, when we came to talk of
defense, four soldiers, a wounded man
and a woman to beat oft a hundred. blood-
thirsty Indians. We left out the man
and the woman in our want, and as the
dawn. began to creep over the plains and
render objects distinguishable we looked
about to see what could be done. We had
talIcerl with the woman. and her husband
in the sodhouse and in total darkness,
not daring to show a light. We knew
that he was almost helpless and lying on
a bed of blankets, and Judging from her
tones I at least believed her to be a faint-
hearted woman who would scream at the
report of a rifle. She came out to us as
we were peering about, and we found her
to be a sweet-faced. woman not over
twenty-five years of age. Joe Harper, as
I may tell you, 'while serving as stcige-
driver, was yet a man of good. family and
education. Their marriage was a bit of
romance, and had taken place only a few
months before.
"Now, men," began the little woman
in a brisk way, "there's but one thing to
be done. We can't fight the Indians from
the sodhouse or the stable because they'll
set fare to the haystacks the first thing
and burn everything up. We must take
to the dugout. Sergeant, you and one
of your men carry Joe over there and the
others will fill thewater barrels and help
me to get food. We must work fast, for
the Indian* will attack within an hour."
She took command so naturally and she
was so cool and quiet in giving her or-
ders that no one ever looked. surprised.
When I went into. the sodhouse with her
she said to her husband:
"Joe, we'll carry you to the dugout
right away, ana in wash and. dress your
wound later on. There are nine fine
horses in the stable, and I'm going to
leave 'em there to burn up. If they've
got to he lost to the company, it's better
to have than roasted than to be run off
' by the Indians."
'Yes, that's so," replied. Joe. "Be sure
to bring over all the arms and ammuni-
tion, We'll be held up here for three or
four days probably. How about water?"
"Don't yoti worry about anything.
Now, boys, lift him easy and don't stum-
ble on the way."
In hall an hour we had everything in
the dugout which we could make use of,
and .Toe's wife leoked around to see that
nothing was missing, and then said to
me:
"Sergeanb, there are two things yet to
be done. It the Indians us a the houses
.and stacks for cover instead of burning
tb.era, they will be terribly close to us.
Those horses must be killed, poor crea-
tures, end then we must set fire to every-
thing with o ir own hands."
"Wouldn't it be better to turn the
horses louse and hope to recapture them
by and by V" E suggeeted. •
"Nosteeee should never see otte of them
again, One of us must shoot them while
the other gets ready to start the fire."
I am certain that if I had refused to
enter the stables she would. not helve hesi-
tated. Thule wore nine of the finest
homes on the whole line, five of which
were Lor sad lle alone. If they were to die
it was surety loom merciful to shoot them
than to let them roast to death, and it
was a etauding order with the company
to kill and destroy rather than permit
anythiug to tell into the hands of the red-
skins. Itseented like murder to go among
thexn revulver iu hand, and. when I left
the etalee1 Mid something of that feeling
which must come over the man who has
plotted and carried out it, cold-blooded
=ardor,
"It had. to be eon°, and no one will
blame you," said ,Tee'ci wife, as 1 eeloined.
her, "aryl nese everything here is ready
fur et, m teh
The incliens had opened fire long be-
fore, told the men in the dugout were an-
swering briskly as we started the confla-
gration. It was a clear 100 feet of open
grourei we had to ttaverse, and as we
stood hesitating tor a, montane the WOMOU
saide
"Don't stop fro me wheel we start.
Wave your hetet to lot thein kncor we
are coming. That's h. Now, then, here
we go !"
I reached out for her hand, but elte uaea
them both to gather up her sleirts. We
reshed oat from behind one of the haY-
stacks just as a cloud of ,black smoke
swirled down to hide us, but I heard the
whiz of fifty bullets before 1 terabled in-
to the open door at her heels. A. bullet
out the cloth on ray right shoulder, and
one passed through the sleeve of her dress,
bat neither of as was scratched. On. the
west side about twenty Indians had gal,
loped up to withiet pistol shot, and but
for the hot fire whieh the three soldiers
maintained they would have rale ae
down. The door was hardly shot when
she was on her feet, and saying:
"Now, boys, you are throwing away
lot$ of good lead. Those Spencers don't
shoot like a rifle. Take it cool and see if
you can't hurt someone. Here—let me
show you a shot."
She had a Henry rifle, which I believed
belonged to one of the station men. The
Indians were crowded about the stable,
probably hoping to get out some of the
horses, and the woman waited for the
smoke to lift. The rest of us watched for
her shot. With her eyes to the sights she
presently called.out
"I'm waiting fdr that chap ou the spot-
ted pony. He's behind the big stack now.
Ah, there he comes !"
Her rifle cracked as she uttered the last
words, and the warrior, who was a sub -
chief, threw up his hands and tumbled
heddlong, shot through the head.
"You can do it if you take time," ,she
said as she withdrew her rifle from the
porthole. "Now, Joe, how's the leg ?"
"Never mind the leg till the fight is
oyer," he replied.
"But I shall. I'll wash and dress it,
and then have the boys prop you up for a
shot at your old enemies. If you don't
kill at least one, you won't remember that
you were in the row."
The Indians couldn't stand our firing
long, having no shelter, and while Joe's
wound was being dressed. the whole gang
of them withdrew out of range. We
were certain of having killed two and
wounded three or four, and there were
four dead ponies lying between the sod
.house and the hay stacks. Luckily for
us the wind changed and swept the smoke
and smell out on the plain' as the fire
raged for several hours, andthe odor from
the roasting horses was terribly strong.
Long enough before the redskins made
another move Joe had been made as cone-
fortable as possible under the circum-
stances. By the aid. of blankets and
cracker boxes we propped. him up at a
porthole, and now that we had six rifles
to blaze away with there was no fear that
twic,e as manyIndians could drive us out.
It was an hour after noon before they de-
veloped their plan.
Reilly's was the only one of the ten
stations they had not yet destroyed, and
they were desperately determined that it
should not escape them. They could not
burn us out, and the walls were bullet-
proof. I mean that they could not burn
as out by setting fire to the roof or sides,
but there were the door and the frame.
The door could stand the bullets, but door
and frame mast burn if fire were placed
against them. There were two pertholes
on a side. Long enough before any of us
men had made out the plan ,Thels wife
turned from one of the portholes and
said :
"We want two more portholes on this
side to defend the door. As near as I can
make out they are gathering dry grass
and twisting it into bundles. That means
that they are going to come with a rush,
fling down a dozen bundles and then try
to set fire to them and the door."
With our sabres we workedthrough the
sod walls and made two extra portholes.
They were only finished when the scheme
of the redskins was patent to all.
"Now, Joe," said the little woman,
"the four soldiers will take the front and
you and 1 the back. Move him around,
boys, and rn take two of the revolvers.
Joe will use the rifle, butr11 try and make
the pistol bullets count. The reds will
divide and. charge front and back at once.
Are you all right, Joe ?"
"Yes, Molly, all right."
"Well, here are extra cartridges if you
Want to reload. If I'm hit don't get shaky
and stop shooting. If the flames get hold
of that door we'll be roasted in this trap.
What are they doing on your side, boys?"
I reported that a number of warriors
were creeping forward on their faces, and.
she said.;
"Same on this side. They are going to
concentrate their fire on the portholes
while the others charge. We needn't
worry about their bullets, however, as
they must fire at an angle. Now they are
placing up the bundles of grass. I can
see three or four of them with brushwood
torches all alight. Joe, do you want a
sip of whiskey to brace your nerves?
Boys, how is it with you ?"
None of us wanted the liquor, and it
was not brought in. We were all pale -
faced. and trembling under the strain,
when the Indians got the signal from
their chief. That charge has gone down
to history as tb.e bravest one ever made
by a war party of Sioux. They knew our
strength, and coolly reasoned on losing
six or eight men. It had been deeided
that there was no other way to get out,
and the warriors who bore the, bundles of
grass and torchee were all young men
and volunteers. There were two parties
of twenty eaoh, and they laid aside rifles
and blankets and made their start from
points just beyond rifle range. A hotfire
was opened by all the others and. the
muzzle of my carbine was struck twice
before I had fired a shot.
„dee
4TII.E.TOU AND TEMPLE."
A.NOUND WOIULD SERMONS.
By Bev. T. De Witt Talmage -
In oontinning his series of Around -the -
World Sermons, Quoit& the press, Rev.
Dr, Talmage otiose for bis subject: "The
Tomb and Temple," hat ing reference
that MOSt famous and beautaf al of mauso-
leums, Tej Malta'. The text seleeted was
"From /nclia even unto Ethiopia."
Esther I: 1.
In ell the Bible this is the only book in
which the etro d India OMITS, but at stends
for a realm of vast iisterest M the time of
Esther as in our time. It yielded the . as
now spicas, and silks, and cottons, and
rise, and indigo, and ores of all richness,
and precious Atones of all sparkle, and
had. a civilization of iM own as marked
as Egyptian or Greelan or Roman civili-
zatiozi. It holds the costliest tomb ever
built, and the most unique and wonder-
ful idolatrous temple ever opened. For
practical lessons, in this ray sixth dis-
course in "Around-the-Wmed" aeries, 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. But
there was one structure toward -which we
were all the time travelling, and having
seen that, we felt that if we saw nothing
more, our expedition would be a success.
That one objet was the Taj Mahal of In-
dia. It is the crown of the whole earth
The spirits of architecture met to en-
throne a king, and the spirit of the Par-
thenon of Athens was there; and the
spirit of St. Sophia of Constantinople was
there; and the spiris of St. Izaak of St.
Petersburg -was there; and the spirit of
the Bapistery of Pisa was there • and the
spirit of the Great Pyramid, and of Luxor
Obelisk, and of the Porcelain Tower of
Nankin, and of St. Mark's of Venice;
and the spirits of all the great towers,
great cathedrals, great mausoleums, great
sarcophagi, great capitols for the living,
and of great necropolises for the dead
were there. And the presidingegenius of
the throng with gravel of Pariah 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, end mount the
chief throne, and wave the chief ceptre,
and by unanimous acclaim the cry was:
Long live the spirit of the Taj, king of all
the spirits of architecture! Thine is the
Taj Mahal of India!
The • building is about six miles from
Agra, and as we rode out in the early
dawn we heard nothing but the hoofs and
wheels that pulled and turned us along
the road, at every yard of which our ex-
pectation rose until we had some that we
might be disappointed at the first
glimpse, as some say they were disap-
pointed. Bat how can anyone be disap-
pointed with the Taj is almost as great a
wonder to me as the Taj itself. There are
some people always disappointed, and
who knows but that having entered
heaven they may critieize the architec-
ture of the temple, and the cut of the
white robes, and say that the River of
Life s not quite np to their expectations,
and that the white horses on -which the
conquerors ride seem a little springhalt
or spavined ?
The result of that rush has been given
in military and other reporte. Our bal-
lets began to tell as soon as the warriors
got within fair range, but we could not
check them. Fourteen out of the twenty
men on my side got close up to the dug -
mit, and at least ten hunches of the dry
gra.es were heaved against the door. Five
of the party earried torches at the start.
We killed four and. wounded the fifth, and
a sixth wareior who seized the torch from
the wounded one was likewise killed.
They got the bundles where they wanted
them, but could not set thorn on fire. On
the other side See and his wife killed five
and severely wounded, four others, and
not a warrior got nearer than ten feet. It
Was a desperate but ueeless charge:I. At
sundowri the Indians had sighted. Custer's
column moving up, and then made haste
to get safely away, bearing all the woun-
ded, but lerseing their dead. An hour
later out =suedes were at hand, and
when we epoxied the door to them YOO'S
wife sat down and buried her face in her
hands and sobbed like a child. She was
a heroine, but a woman above all, Gen-
eral Custer himself stood beside her when
she finally looked up, and wiphig away
the lett of her tears $he held out het hand
and ajtia
"General, I've beeo showing your boys
hole to kill Indians, but two over ts
command to yoti now and. look after J
hut"
My son said, "Thero it is!" I said,
"Where?" For that which he saw to be
the building seemed to me to be more like
the morning cloud blushing under the
stare of the rising sun. It seemed not so
much built up from earth as let down
from heaven. Fortunately, you stop at
an elaborate gateway of red sandstone
one-eighth of a mile from the Taj, an en-
trance so high, se arched, so graceful, so
four -domed, so painted and ehisled and
scrolled that you come very gradually
upon the Taj, which l stratum is enough
to intoxicate the eye, and stein the imagi-
nation, and entrance the soul. We go
up the winding stairs of this majestic en-
trance of the gateway, and buy a few pic-
tures and examine a few curios, and
from it look off upon the Taj, and de
scend to the pavement of the 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 bril-
liant fins swirl and float. There are
eighty-four fountains that spout, and
bend, and arch themselves to fall in
showers of pearl in basins of snowy white-
ness. Beds of all imaginable flora greet
the nostril before they do the eye, and
seem to roll in waves of color as you ad -
vatic° towards the vision you are soon to
have of what human genius did when it
did its best; moon -flowers, Biwa, mari-
golds, tulips, and almost everywhere the
lotus; thickets of bewildering bloom; on
either side trees from many lands bend
their aborescence over your head, or seem
with convoluted branches to reach out
their arms towards you in welcome. On
and on you go amid tamarind, and cy-
press, and poplar, and. oleander, and yew,
and sycamore, and bayaia, and palm, and
trees of such novel 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 sensa-
tion 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 very
bad. I choose to think she was very
good. At any rate, it makes me fel bet-
ter to think that this commemorative
pile was set up for the immortalization of
value rather than vice. The Taj is a
mountain of white marble, but never
such walls faced ,.each other with ex-
quisiteness; never such a tomb was cut
from block of alabaster; never such a
congregation of precious stones brighten-
ed, and bloomed, and blazed, and chasten-
ed and glorified a building since sculp-
tor's chisel cut its first curve'or painter's
pencil traced its first figure, or mason's
plumb-line measured ib a first wall, or
architect's compass swept its first ounle.
and Punjab its jasper, and Pereis its
%motley -et, and 'Mist its turquoise, and
Lanka its sapphire, and Yemenitis age,*
and Punah it diamonds; and blood-
stones, and sardonyz, and chalcedony,
and Moss agates are as common es
though they were pebbles. You
find one spray of Tine beset with
eighty, and Another with gem hundied
stones. Twenty thousand men were
twenty years in building henna although
the labor was slave labor, and not paid
for, the building cost what would be
about $60,000,000 of our Amerioan
money. Some of the jewels have been
piked out of the wall by Moneclasts or
conquerors, and substitutes of less value
have taken their places ; but the vines,
the traceries, the arabesent s, the spand-
rels, the entablatores are so wondrbus
that you feel like dating your life from,
the day you first saw them. In letters of
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 he intended to build a
palace as black as this was white on the
opposite side of the river :or himself to
sleep in. Indeed, 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 dethroned hien and -imprisoned him,
and it is wonderful that the king had
any place at all in which to be buried.
Instead of windows to let in the light
upon the tees tombs, there is a trellis-
work of marble, marble cut so delicately
thiu that the sun shines through it OM
easily as though glass. Look the world
over and find so much tranducency ;
canopies, traceries, lace -work, embroid-
eries of stone.
We had heard of the wonderful re-
sona,ece of this Taj, and so I tried it. I
suppose there are more Ale ping echoes in
that builaing waitieg to be wakened by
the human voice than in any buildi g
ever constructed. I uttered one word.,
and there seem d. descend.ng
cloths in full chant, and there
was a reverberatiott that kept on lot g af-
ter one would have expected it to cue*.
When a lime of a hymn was sung ther
were replying, rolling, raising tailing,
interweaving sounds that s enied m. du-
lat, d by bellies eeraphic. There were
aerial sopranos and bassos, scot, high,
deep, tremulous, k rao t lone', commingling.
It was like an an 'iphonal o heaven. Bat
there are four or five raj Mahals. It has
one appearance at sunrise, another at
noon, another at sunset and another by
moonlight. Indeed, the silver bowel of
the moon., and the golden trowel of the
sunlight, and the leaden trowel of th
storm built and re alit the glory, so that
it never seems twice alike. In has all
mods, all eosep!exione all grandeurs.
From the top of the Taj, which is '250
feet high; springs a spire thirty feet high
sr, and that as enamell. a gold. What
an anthem in eternal rhyth ! Ly ics
and. elegies in marble. Sculptur d ho
sauna! Masonry as of supernatural
hands! Mighty,, doxology in stone!
I shall see nothing to equal it until I se
the Great White Throne, and on it Him
from wh. se iace the heavens and eaith
flee away..
The Taj is the pride of India, and tope-
cially of Mohammedanism. An English
officer at the fortress teed us that when
during the general mutiny in 1857 the
Mohammedans propoeed insurrection at
Agra, the English Government aimed
the guns of the fort at the Taj and said.:
"You make insurrection, and that same
day we will blow your Taj to atoms ;"
and that threat ended the disposition for
mutiny at Agra.
The Taj has sixteen great arched win-
dows, four at each cerner. Also at each
of the lour corners of the Taj stands a
minaret 187 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, nor a rnosaie kosenech
nor an arch sagged, or a panel dulled.
The storna$ of 250 winters have not mar-
red, nor the heats of 260 summers elism-
tegrated, a marble. There is no story of
age written by mosses on its white sur-
face. Montaz, the ejeteen, was beantifttl,
end Shah jehan, the ,kingehtte ptepoeed
to let sal the eenturies of time know A,
She was Married at tsventy years of age
and aiea at twenty-nine. Her life ended
as another life began, ite the rose bloomed
the rosebud perished. To adoirn this
clernaleory of the dead, at the commend
of the king, Bagdad sent to this building
its tornelian, and Ceylon its lapis laztilo
dentlY laeked, or he would not have so
depreciated them, when he said, '''The
Lent takettl pleasure in the legs of a
Man," V e passed up some stone steps,
and between the walls we saw awaiting
us a cobra, one of those snakes which
greet the traveler oet times in India. Two
01 the guide,s left the cobra dead by the
wayside. They enust have been Moham-
medan*, for Hindoos neyer kill thet eacied
reptile.
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 out put of the game stone. So vast
was the undertaking, and to the Iiincloo
was so great the human imposaibility
that they say the gods scooped out this
stracture from the rock, and earved the
pillars, and hewed its swipe into gigantic
idols, and d.edioated to it all the grand -
ears. We climb many stone steps before
we get to•the gateevays. Ihe entrance to
this Temple has sculptured doorkeepers
leaning on sculptured devils. Now
strange! But I have seen doorkeepers
of churches and auditoriums who seemed
to be leaning on the demons of had venti-
laton and. asphyxia. Doorkeepers ought
to be leaning on the angels 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 the audiences by inefficiency
ought to visit this Cave of Elephants,
and beware of what these d orkeepers are
doing, when instead of leaning on the
angelic, they lean on the demoniac.
In. these Elephanta Caves everything is
on a Sarasoman and Titanian scale.
With chisels that were dropped from
nerveless hands at least eight centuries
are) the forms of the gods Braanha, and
le I
Vishnu, and Siva Were OM into the ever-
lasting rock. Siva is here represented by i
a figure sixteen feet nine riches high,
one-half man and one-half woman. Run
a line from the center of the iorehead
straight to the floor of the rock, and you
divide this idol into masculine and femi-
nine. Admired as this idol is by many,
it was to me about the worst thing that
was ever cut into porphyry, perhaps be-
cause there is hardly anything on earth
so objectional as a being half man and
half woman. Do be one or 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 as from effeminate men and mascu-
line women.
But I thought while looking at that
-palace for the d ad all this r• (instructed
to cover a handful of dust, but even that
handful has probably gone from the mau-
soleum, how much better it wosild have
been to expend $60,000,000 which the Taj
Mahal cost for the living. What asy-
lumit might have built for the sick,
what homes for the homeless! What
improvenaent our century has made upon
other centuries in lifting in honor ofethe
departed memorial churches, memorial
hospitals, memoral reading -rooms, me-
morial observatories. By all possible
means let us keep the memory of (sem/t-
ee loved ones fresh in mind, and let there
be an appropriate head -stone or monu-
ment in the cemetery, but there is a di-
viding line between re ,sona.ble commem-
orations and wicked extravagances. The
Taj Mahal has its uses as an architectu
ral achievement, eclipsing all other ar-
chitecture, but as a memorial of a de-
parted 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 U4 when
we are gone is in the memory of those
whose sorrows we have alleviated, in the
wounds we havehealed, in the kinelneass
we have done, in the ignorance we have
enlightened, in the recreant' we hive re -
gleamed, in the souls we have saved!
Such a monument is built out of mate jai
more lasting than inarble or bronze, and
will stand amid the eternal splendors
long alter the Taj Mahal of India shall
have gone down in the ruins of a world
of at hioh it was the costliest adornment.
But I promised to show you n t only a
tomb of India, but a unique heathen tem-
ple, and it is a temple underground.
Yonder is the Bing Havana. worship-
ping. Yonder is the sculptured represen-
tation of the marriage ol Shiva and Par-
hati. Yonder is Daksha. the son of Brah-
ma, born from the thumb of his right
hand. He had sixty daughters. Seven-
teen of those daughters were married. to
Idaserapa and became the mothers of the
human race. Yonder is a god evith three
heads. The center head has a crown
wound with necklaces of skulls. The
right hand god is in a paroxysm of rage,
with forehead of snakes, and in its hand
is a cobra. The left hand god. has pleas-
ure in all its features and the hand has a
flower. But there are gods and goddesses
in all directions. The chief temple of
this rock is one hundred and thirty feet
square and has twenty-six pillars rising
to the r of. After the conquerors of other
lands, and the tourists from all lands
have chipped, and defaced, and. blasted,
and carried away curios and mementos
for museums and homes, there are enough
entrancements left to detain one, unless
he is cautious, until he is down with
some of the malarias which encompass
this island, or get bitten with some
of its snakes. Yes, I left the chilly
dampness of the place, and left this
congress of gods, this pandemonium
of demons, this pantheon of indifferent
deities and came to the steps and looked
off upon the waters which rolled and
flashed. around the steam yacht that was
waiting to retum with us to Bombay.
As we stepped aboard, our minds filled
with the idols of the Elephanta Caves, I
was impressed as never before with the
thought that man must have a, religion
of some kind, even if he has to contrive
one himself, and he must have a God
even though he make it with his own
hand. I rejoice to know the day will
come when the one God. of the universe
will be acknowledged throughout India.
That evening of our return to Bombay
I visited the -Young Men's Christian As-
sociation, with the same appointments
that you find in the Young Men's Chris-
tian Associations of Europe and America,
and the night after that 1 addressed a
throng of native children who are in the
schools of the Christian Missions. Chris-
tian universities .gather under their wing
of benediction a host of the young men
of this country. 13orobay aud Calcutta,
the two great commercial cities of India,
feel the elevating power of an aggressive
,Christianity. Episcopalian liturgy and
Presbyterian Westmmster Catechim, and
Methodist Anxious -seat and Baptist
WaMrs of Consecration now stand where
once basest idolatries had undisputed
sway. The work which Shoemaker Carey
inaugurated at Serampore. India, trails -
bating the Bible into forty different dia-
lects, and, leaving his worn-out body
amid the natives whom he had come to
save, and going up into the heaven from
which he can better watch all the field—
that work will be completed in the salva-
tion of the millions of India; and beside
him gazing from the same high places
stand. Bishop Heber and Alexander
Duff, and John Scudeer, and Mackay,
who fell at Delhi, and Moncrieff, who
fell at Cawnpore, and Polelmmpton, who
fell at Luckuow, and Freeman, who fell
at Futtyghur, a,nd all heroes and hero-
ines who,
for Christ,s sake, lived and
died 1 r t..he Christianization of India;
and .heir heaven will not be complete
until. the Ganges that washes the Ghats
of heathen temples shall roll between
churches of the living God, and the
trampled womanhood of Hindooism shall
have all the rights purehased by Him
who, amid the cats and stabs of His own
assassination, cried out: "Behold thy
mother!' anti from Bengal Bay to Ara-
bian Ocean,, and from the Himalays to
the coast of Coromandel there be liftea
hosannas to Him who died to redeem all
nations. In that da.y Elephanta Cave
will be one of the places where idols are
"cast to the moles and bats." If any
clergyman asks me, as an unbelieving
minister of religion mice aelted the Duke
of 'Wellington, "Do you not think that
the work of tacinvereing the leindoos ie all
a practical force ?" I answer him as
Wellington answered the unbelieving
ministm- : "Look to your marching or-
ders, sir i" Or if any one having Joined
in the Gospel attack feels like reheating,
say to him, as General liaveloek said to
a retreating regiment, "The enemy are
in front, not ii the roar,'" and iesaiing
them again bate the fightethough twb
horses had been shot uneer hint
Indeed. the taking el thie wrerld for
Christ will be no holiday oelebralion, but
as tremendous as when India during the
With miners' candles -we had Been
something of the underside of Australia,
as at Gimpie, and with guide's torch we
had seen at different times eornething of
the underside of America, aa in Mamrarr h
Cave, but we are now to enter one of the
sacred cellarof India, commonly collet
the Elephanta Caves. We had it all to
ourselves, the steam yachb that was to
take us about fifteen miles over the her
bor of Bombay and between enchanted
islands. and along shores whose curves
and gulches and pictured rocks graduallY
prepared. the mind for appreciation of the
most unique spectacle in India. The
morning had been full of thunder and
lightning ate deluge, but the atmos heric
agitations had ceased, and the cloudy
ruins of the storm were piled up in blae
heavens, hugely enough an i darkly pur-
ple enough to make the skies as grandly
metureeque as the earthly scenery amid
which we moved. After an hour's cut-
ting through the waters we came to the
long pier reaching from the island called
Elephant t. It is art island small of girth
but 600 feet high. It deslines into the
marshes of mangrove. But the whole
island is one tangle of foliage and verdure;
convoltralus creeping the ground; masses
elimbing the rocks. vines sleeving the long
arms of the treeS, red flowers here and
there in the woods, likeincendiary's tereh
trying to eet, the groves on fire; cactus
and acacia vying as to which can most
charre‘the beholder; tropical bird meet-
ing perti-colored butterfly in jutigles
planted the 38,1110 summer the world was
born. We stepped out of the boat amid
enough natives to afford all the help we
'needed for landing and guidance. Y
can be sallied by coolies in an easy thair
or you catt walk, if you are blessed With
poy4 was toll be' cantered by Fir Celin
"Campbell and the at my of Tritain, elate
Sepoya hurled. upon. the attacking columns
burnuag missiles, ;end grenades, and fired
on them shot and shell, and po.orecl en
them from the ramparts buriung oil,
until •the writer who witnessed it says,
"It was a picture of 3-endemism/um,"
Then Sir Colin addressed hia troops, say-
ing, "Remember, the WoM'en and child-
ren must be rescued!" and his men re-
plied, "Ay! ! Sir Collo. e stood
by you at Balaklaya, and will stand by
you here !" And then came the trium-
phant assault of the bettromento• so in
this Gospel campaign which proposes
capturing the very last oitidel of icloletry
and sin, and hoisting over it the banner
of the Cross, we may have hurled upon
us mighty opposition, and scorn, and 01,-
loguy1 and many may fall before the ,
work is done, yet at every call for new
onset, let the cry of the chard) : "Ayl
ay! Great Captain of our salvation; we
stood by Thee in other conflicts, anti 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 Ap-
polyonic fortifications shallora,sh into the
rum, we will join in the shout, "Thanks
be unto God who giveth us the victory !"
"Hallelujah ! for„the :Lord God Omnipo-
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