Connecticut western news., 1894-11-29

Yes. Have you had your breakfasts Yes. Come, then, and let us mount and go out to be shot at and die like gentlemen. !" The three other heroes of Lucknow at that table told of Gen. eral Havelook other things just as stir ring. What speech that was Havelock made to his soldiers as he started for Cawnpur, India: cover 200 of our race are still alive in Cawnpur. With Gods help we will save them from death. l am trying you severely. my men, but l know what you are made of The en- thusiasm of his men was we'll suggested by the soldier lying asleep, and. Have lock riding along, his horse stumbled over the soldier and woke him, and the soldier recognizing the general cried out cheerily: Make room for tho general God bless the generalP'
 Hayelock's Crave
 A plain monument marks Havelook's grave, but the epitaph is as beautiful and comprehensive as anything I have ever seen, and I copied it then and there, and 1t is as follows: ''Here rest the mortal remains of Henry Havelock, major general in the British army and Knight Commander of the Bath, who died at Dilkoosha Lucknow of dysentry produced by the hardships of cam paign in which he achieved immortal fame, on the 24th of November, 1857. He was born on the 9th of April, 1795, at Bishops, Wermouth county, Durham, England. Entered the army 1915. Came to India 1928 and served there with little interruption till his death. He bore an honorable part in the wars of Burma, Afghanistan, the Mahratta campaign of 184S and the Sutlej of l845. Retained by adverse circumstances in subordinate position, it was the aim of his life to show that the profession of Christian is consistent with the fullest discharge of the duties of a soldier. He commanded division in the Persian expedition of 1857. In the terrible con- vulsion of that year his genius and character were at length fully developed and known to the world. Saved from shipwrcck on the Ceylon coast by that providence which designed him for greater things, he was nominated to the command of the column destined to relieve the brave garrison of Lucknow. This object, after almost superhuman exertion. he, by the blessing of God. ac- complished. But he was not spared to receive on earth the reward he so dearly earned. The Divine Master whom he served saw fit to remove him from the sphere of his labor in the moment of his greatest triumphs. He departed to his rest in humble but confident expectation of far greater rewards and honors which a grateful country was anxious to bestow. In him the skill of a com mander, the courage and devotion of a soldier, the learning of a scholar, the grace of highly bred gentleman and all the social and domestic virtues of a husband, father and friend were blend ed together, and strengthened, harmo- nized and adorned by the spirit of true Christian, the result of the influence of the Holy Spirit on his heart, and of an humble reliance on the merits of cru cified Saviour. II Timothy iv, 2, 8: I have fought @ good fight. have finish ed my course. I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me Q crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge. shall give me at that day. and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing. This monument is erected by his sor- rowing widow and family"
 England Careless.
 Is not that magnificent? But I said while standing at Havelock's grave, Why does not England take his dust to herself, and in Westminster abbey make him pillows In all her history of wars there is no name so magnetic, yet she has expressed nothing on this mans tomb. His widow reared the tombstone Do you say, "Let him sleep in the region where he did his grandest deeds?' The same reason would have buried Wellington in Belgium, and Won Moltke at Versailles, and Grant at Vicksburg, and Stonewall Jackson fan away from his beloved Lexington, Va. Take him home, O Englandl The res. cuer of the men, women and children at Lucknow! His ear now dulled could not hear the roll of the organ when il sounds through the venerable abbey the national anthem. But it would hear the same trumpet that brings up from among those sacred walls the form oi Outram, his fellow hero in the over. throw of the Indian mutiny. Let par. liamont make appropriation from the national treasury, and some great war. ship under some favorite admiral sail across Mediterranean and Arabian seas, and wait at Bombay harbor for the coming of this conqueror of conquerors, and then, saluted by the shipping of all free nations, let him pass on and pass up and come under the arches of tho abbey and along the aisles where have been carried the mightiest dead oi many centuries.
 Some audiences and some readers art so slow of thought and so stupid that they need an application made of every subject. But the people who get this sermon have made the application fol themselves already. I challenge you tc say whether or not I have kept my promise when in the opening of this dis course I said I would show you foul things-what an awful affair war is what genuine Christian character is un der bombardment, what is the coronation of Christian courage and how splendid ly good people die. And here endetl my first sermon of the round the world series.