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Show KiMJM IXUIA-. Phi thitogical i'catnr-. of thai Fr-oXLanJ, Fr-oXLanJ, aul TJ)ojtit IaJItla-tlo'a IaJItla-tlo'a ' the Utllglon or IN lVoplr. Sac ejfXJipMtsaos 4! lbs bikssr .NEmr1 " ,s Tasp'iyilcilgJigeip'iy of In Hi iscjrtain'.v not astuU a lhat of the Hooky M Mntaiui, if we except the tlvemilehijh paaksof the Hiral-liys(whlet'i,I Hiral-liys(whlet'i,I haventM!on). ri.ill, If Wc bahold the expanse or the sacrud Gxujes, tj whoe yelhw waves the ttei 1 wero coiulgiied uot nuny years a , we sVi,-, aiv e struck, won lering'if a rivjr can bo found greater In iM. A batlal iu this sacred n ver Is as great" a desideratum desidera-tum to tho 1 tola tors of Iniiaasa burial lot near tha w ills of Jerusalem Jerusa-lem is to the pious Jew. The Indian peninsula Is not unlike South America with regards to water, mountain, table lands and relative altitudes, if we measure that continent from the equator south ward-: ever bearinj iu mind lhat India Is several times smaller in i.vrry iroportlou. Iu South Anl'tba a Huron-sUlpof Huron-sUlpof Unit bdgltiatngat the Pacific ocean, rises abruiKly as wc aiceuJ eastward s to tho Andes, and at every gridaiinn of altitude the vegetation becomes more an J-more like that of tcuiiK-rato climes. So It is in Living Itooibay. ell ublng eaittfanls to tlie Ghauts. Tnis awent Is ro -(', that the train lias to rtversa completely ou a V in the heart of the mountains. moun-tains. I will gives ha-ty description, descrip-tion, and revert to my subject. Within the S cr 10 miles which recede;! re-cede;! this Y switch we rushed in and nut o! Si or 3S tunnels. tun-nels. How rrand' The suu was nil abiale. Tlie atmosphrro seemed shiny and glistering. Like awritli-Ing awritli-Ing snake r eel tbe long train pitehed right and left in n swinging metkm, winding here and thtrc around eitarfol iluSr; stvmlng at times almost to leap over dep. ugly cha-msond pnTipices liereas;ore i of Cascades Seemed with headlong ; fury to pursue each other over algie I povered rocks, scattering spray aud 1 ralnliowsall over, while ruhlng to-1 ! gether to form larger waterfalls be-1 be-1 l-w. In this profu-ion of sdnlighl j H was painful for the eye to b.hold the sparkling silver thrcs'Is of water, the sucw-uhlte clouds of ,iray aui the .gorgeous red an I i el- j I low Mowers which here and there, ' I'ke com", shone through the brl! 1 llant bands of many raliibows. With ' I a loud sn rt and nnny echo-8 the ' I engine plunges lulo a Ikaok nzged. shagsy hide. JV'e soon follow and j notice, that instead qf a fantastic 1 cave. It is a regular, vfll tulllt tun-I'eh tun-I'eh the niouth of which, however, 'If so overhung ultn great ferns I pendulous air plants, mosses and lunging grasses, that It looks like a breach In the bowels of tho earth, a cavern for 1 tigers. Tho train rumbles loudly in ' Ibis great mountain, and though the 1 minutes am few, the time rccms , long. Now air I again tlie smoke In ; the tunnel seems agio like the cloudy panache, above. Vesuvius' or Etna's crater at night time. A dim light appears, and again we see a dark, Irregular outline as If I looking from the Inside of a grotto 1 outwards, but, very slrtngc to say. 1 tho entrance recall Uaried Willi , crystals Arid ehscts of glas, si Mcli Jccai to turn spirally and vibrate. We ore In Iheinidrtof tbe rainy season. Aswepas-J through the I tunnel a cloud burst on the rl 'ge. We were deluged by torrents of water. It is like diving tliiough a Water fall. Vibrating flints or water bar the entrances, while the ferns, long gras-rs and rarases en-tWfnts en-tWfnts to let down pillars cf water, aid even each one of th? thick, broad leaves of the idautaln. Inuilia ' audct!iergtraullcHdoeiisn.-.utlh : fluid like so mauy tavrs of a grual 1 cithedrai. Wrily the windows o! '. heaven rm open. So iVoJider Ihc sllof India isso shallow, and the rocks crop out all over. As tb Ian i n jw l, if these rains ceul a , decade, India would lie a iu ire barren bar-ren aud flery ili-sitt than that o( Lybla or Arabia. Thus wn go through 3 score of tunnels, amid rain aud shlire, umv mluutrs ot bUsing win and it rains again, aud so on. ite'ow us are terraced rice fields, a-id broal pools in which languidly lloat black, shiny, halrlns water-bullock hardly to is; distinguished distin-guished from tlie dark, wtt U.uldcrs around them lu the water. . Islam says Godvrnt 0),0) prophets pro-phets to niru on earth. Mortal man disregarded them all. Even Noah, Abraham, Ishmie', Moses and Christ tho greatest but one (!) were mockcJ. As none of these could establish peace in the habitations of wickedness, Mohammed, thelat and greatest prophet was sent with the sword. This statement may surprise some, but what of 3,4a,O0O Hindu gods? Is net that more puzzling? I do not suppose the reader admits tho statement as expressing ex-pressing the truth. I don't think it correct, at any rata. Vet tlie Eist India school text books say that tbe Indian Gods amount to "XlcrCrtt." (Acrore equals Wo,. O.W.) It Is truo that those text books are published by a soclity for the propagation of 'Christianity." 'Christian-ity." That makes the statement -su'plcloua. Much as wc respeit GsntUu, "Christians," wc. have all riutired how some reverend people vllllfythe heathens. Many heathens heath-ens are bliefc. but why make them blacker? If I had to estimate the llkell'ucoJ cf'the existence at any time of 3,3),0K) gods Iu India, and h&d to estimate It by the truthful, nwa of statements uow maJo in India by "reverends" concerning tho Latler-day Saints; I houlJ reject re-ject It all, except here and there a salient name and a few pbscaro though solid facts. Let us Invest!- Bte JtWDOVl THBOGOM- In the face of these Mq0,0p) g;l the book tells us lhat .India had origlnallr but one God " vJ Dy" Pltar. J liar I perhaps the latlnpofo-and latlnpofo-and the English "father" andls so used here to this day. Paul recalls the Greek tf.eu. tho deta of the Latins and rartuguceze and tho Spanish diat. Tho Celtic names fir God, are also nearly identical. In short It means God the Fattier, or Father God. He Is generally represented rep-resented as a triune person. Hindu scripture and carving is often grotesque grot-esque and III proportioned, yet, wheal think of tills Ojaut I'ltar, as represented, I always remember a Greek oil portr-it cf the Trinity which I oncesaw. Itwasnotabad conception of"ino Iu three and three but one." Tho Great Hindu god Is often represented In three separate per-wus. per-wus. Besides Ibis we find In Hindu Hin-du theogony a great serjAnt, dragons, dra-gons, winged twines 01 Various sorls, genii, good ard evil, and last of all inslKnlDcaht loiagrs of fat, Irtin, pretty or liortld men or women (bleroglyihIcsi, ttzrtt, as It were, or household goods. There is some resemblance between be-tween tho Bible doctrines aud the mythology of the Hindus. Brahma, for Instance, obtained from onn lord ' (Vltlinu) tue prumlse tbat tho lord ' (Vishnu) should go down among men, be conceived of a virgin, J reserve re-serve the earth ami restore tbe racu or earth from the ravages of riataii ; (the demon-king). This is literally 'the history of llojddha, in ludlan theology. Bouddba means Ihc wise. ' There are dilTereut kinds hieroglyphics. hiero-glyphics. Many a reader could not distinguish between arowofSaa-scrltlettcrs, arowofSaa-scrltlettcrs, purely alphabetical, and as many Chi ues characters, chit fly Ideographic Most alphabets are made up of remnant' of hieroglyphic syrtems of tiotallou or u riling. Tne liindu hliroglyphlcs are seldom sel-dom disfigured, punwsely,to fit Into the cartouche, in illndu carvings tlie cartouche is a depression In tlie stone, neither oval as tbe Egyptian, nor squared like the ancient American. Amer-ican. Ills square at the bottom and vaulted or arched at Iho lop. In the appear humau figures with heads of Llrks, luPphaUU, ibUxs, rHlnocerois, alligators, hawks, cats, etc.; very much like the Egyptian; but tho style, though lew stereo-typeil stereo-typeil nud less proportioned, is more free, cay, and not so much oarvd or gauged as culturcd. itelng more like s:ulituru or bigh-cellef. bigh-cellef. Hindu iiieroglyphlcs do not look so still" and deficient til iwrqiective as the Egyptian. Egyp-tian. For all this I claim neither grace, grandeur or precision In favor nf Hindu architecture or carving, whetherancient or modern, ascompiral to Egyitlan. llliUu art has undergone many rclsp-e and defective or innovated re-tora-tiins. Theclinutcof Indls Is so cioiit nad wariU tllaltiieair,unauilraln, with myriaalsuf almost microSA-ojdc funi vnpite to deface nnd reduce the hardest rocks as effectively a Miuliine anl frost. ConsHjuently no really ancient monument are hereto be found.. Some centuries b-foro Christ Is the limit. Moreover More-over the natives ol India do 11 -t, nor over did, tSccl In rta cutting or carvlhg, con- fining their art to friable stones, ivory, hard woods, bronze casting snd day. Indian art, too, is so fi.'Me in its selection of ornaments that faciei plgmfcs built In modern times, have ore is-ionally, where should bo, w"h4t the "HeVereuJs" call a god; there, I soy, the pago-d pago-d is occasionally hare a carved Brit- ' h-li seVlirr, shouldering a gun, or preeuting arms. Yet it Is Urgely from tliwe '-gods" that the mls-siinariesdraw mls-siinariesdraw uji their S3 crures. When first I heard of these numiHr I appealed to what I term obscure or forg 'tton hleroglyiiliic-, for the majority ma-jority are but such. traiep?iutcd by j I ndlanajt, from Egypt bj India. In r jy4 they oiten reprwnted varl-j varl-j ihis attribute of one deity. The itlbla cniM furui-li scores of'gcds If we w ere to u-e each name or attribute attri-bute of the Dlty as representing represent-ing another god. A few ci- amplest I am Jehovah, Jilo' I him, Lotil Cod of Habaoth, of Abraham, of Isaac, etc aurcl of the Lord, Holy Spirit, almighty, t'lcn-iful, love. Alpha and Omega, etc., etc TlHiugh India may have had many gods, I consider 3,3'W,000 an hoax -of a numb-r; Imagine a directory aif gods with NW.ttW names, a lioolt larfer thin Wdfeter'a una-iiridirisl, una-iiridirisl, and If you pbsr-e, thirty- two such volumes on top of It I larrely names and addresses of the I (wis let alone attributes, birth, j death, and history and manner of I serving each sod- Ieslde. accord !ng tostutlMic, it wouhl make only I a congregation of KM U? 13d men, I women nnd babes to ca-b god. It I is prrosleroua. But In summing upt'iehlols and hieroglyphics, the baarj of islucalioii easily enough 1 got thirty-three More of Gods. ! t U. Is. |
