One of the most remarkable religious wars of history apparently came to an end last week with the pronouncement of sentence by the Imperial British Court in Lahore, India, upon 54 Sikhsfor 4, death; for 9, life imprisonment; for 41, a term of three to seven years hard labor.
The story of this war is a coat of many colors, of which the patches must be plucked from the incidents of four centuries.
Sikhism is the world's newest great religion; is, in many respects, the world's purest. Its locale is Northwestern India (Punjab, etc.) and its personnel, about 2,000,000a sturdy,...