The Penn's Grove record., 1894-11-30
REV. DIR. TALMAGE.
TIE BRooKLyN DrvINE,s SUM-
DAY SERMON.
Subject "sIese orLuesnow :

1E1Tt "When n shalt Nesiege VI 2 I
iong time in making war against 1t to tax,
forcing an az against tnem. "-Deuterono
my XIX, 10.
The aw!ulest thing In w1r Is besiegamani
Tor to the work of deadly weapons II add
hunger and starvation and plague. Besiege
ment is sometimes necessary, but my tex
commands mercy even 10 that. The frui
trees must be spared because they affori
food for man. Thou shalt not destroy tn,
trees thereof by forcing an az againA
Them" But in my recent journey round thi
world iouat at Lucknow. Indin. the remain
oil the most merciless besiegement of thu
ages, and l proceed to tell you that story fol-
iour great reasons--to show you what a hor
rid thing war Is and to make you all advo.
Gates for peace, to show you what genuine
Christian character is under bombariment,
TO put n coronation Of Christian courage
and 10 show you how splendldiy good people
die.
As our train glidsi into the dimly ligbts.
station | asked the guari, SIS this Luck.
nowg' and he answered, tLucknow,' ut the
pronunciation OF which proper name strong
soul.
The wori Is a synonym. OF suffering, o.
cruelty, OF heroism, OF horror such as is sug.
Rested by hardly any other word. We have
Tor thirty-five years been reading OF the
agonies there endurei and the daring deeds
there Witnessed. 1t was my great desire TO
have some one who had witnessed the
scenes transacted in Lucknow In 1857 con.
duet us over the place. We found just the
man. He was q young soldier at the time
the greatest mutiny Of the ages broke out,
and he VS. put with others inside the
residency, watch was a cluster OF buildings
making u fortress In which the representa-
tiyes OF the English Govercment lived and
which was TO be the scene of an endurancA
and a lonbnrdment the story of which
poetry and painting an1 history and secular
and sacred eioqurncs havs been trying to de-
pict Our escort not only had a good
memory OF what had happened, but had
talent enough TO rehearse the tragedy.
In the eariy part OF 1857 all over India the
NATIVES were really to break out In rebellion
against all foreigners and especially against
the civil AM military representatives of the
English Government.
A half dozen causes are mentioned for the
feeling Of discomfort and insurrection that
was eyinceI throughout India. The most
ofthese causes were mere pretexts. Creased
cartridges were no doubt an exasperation.
The grease ordered by the English Govern.
ment to be usel on these cartridges waf
taken from wv or pigs, and grease to the
Hindoos is uDclean, AMI to bite these car
tridges at the loading OF the guns would b.
TN offrnse to the Hinioo religion, The
leaders OF the Hlndoos said that these
CREASED cartridges was only part of an at.
the natives give up their religion hence, IN
bounded indignation was aroused,
Aaother Gauss o! the mutiny was that an.
other large province OF Iniia hsd been an.
nexsd to the British empirs, and thausanis
o officials in the employ o. the King OF that
provinces were tarown out OF position, and
they were all ready for trouble making.
Anothrr Gauss was 9 lid to be the bad gov.
ernm-nt exercised by some English oficiab
in India.
The simple fact was that the NATIVES OF In
dia were o conquered race, an the English
were the conquerors. For 100 years tn,
British scepter mad been waved oyer India
and the Indians wanted to break that scep.
ter. There never hal bern any love or sym,
patty between the natives Of India AMI this
Europ ans. There is none now.
Beior the time OF the great mutiny tn,
Engush Government risked much power il
the hands OF the natives. Too many OF then
manned the forts. Too many OF them wer,
in the Governmental employ, And now the
time had come Tor q wide outbreak. Tit
natives had persuade themselves that they
could send the English Government dying,
and to accomplish 1t dagger and sword and
firearms and mutilation and slaughter mus
do their worst.
/. was evident In Lucknow that the ma.
lives were about to rise and put to death all
the Europeans they could lay their hand.
on, and into her csidency the Christian pop
uiation OF Lucknow FASTENED for defenss
from the tigers in human form which were
growing for their victims The occupant
OF The r~esidency, or fort, were-mihtary ant
non-combatants, men. women and childreI
lin number about 1852.
! suggest in one sentence some OF the
chief woes TO which they were subjected
when ] say that these people were In the
r%esidency live months without q single
change OF clothing some OF the time this
heat at 120 and 1870 degrees, the place black
with flies and all a-squirm with yermin
firing OF the enemy upon them ceasing
neither day nor night the hospital crowded
with the dying smallpox, scuryy, cholera,
adding their work 10 that OF shot and shell
women brought up In all comfort and never
having knowa want, crowded and saert-
feed In q cellar where nine childrep
were born less and less food no water ex-
c. pit that which was brought from q wall
unier the enemy's fire, so that the water OBJ,
tanned was at the price OF blood, the stencil
Of the dead horses added to the efiuyis Of
corpses, and all waiting for the moment
when the army OF go. 900 shrieking Hindoo
devils should break In upon the garrison Of
the residency, now reduced by wounds and
sickness and death to e76 men, women and
children.
"Call me early" I said, Tomorrow morn.
ing, and let us be at the residency beforeths
sun becomes too hot" At z o'clock in the.
morning we left our hotel in Lucknow, and
! said to our obliging, gentlemanly escort,
stPlsase take us along the road by whicI
Havelock and Outram came to the relief OF
= a ~nasI1.A- fVh-e -.uthA -.-A
There was a solemn stiffness as We APP
preached the gate of the resldency, Bat
tered and torn is the masonry OF the en-.
trance. Signature of shot and punctuation
II cannon bah all up and down and every
where.
Here to the leit,- said our escort, Aar.
the remain of q building tue first floor Of
which In other days had been used as a ban-
hall, but then was used as q hos
pttal. Al this part the amputations took
place, and ali such patients died. The heat
so great and the food 10 insufficient
that the, poor fellows could not recover
the loss otblood. They all died. Ampu.
tafions were performed without chloroform.
All the anaesthetics were exhausted. A
that in other climates and I'M
der other circumstances would have come &c
Easy conyaleseence here proved fatal, Yon-
der was DR.. Fayrer's house, who was sur
Of the place and Is now Queen Victor.
doctor This upper room was the ofl-
GERS room, and there Sir Henry Lawrence,
dear commander, was wounded. While
be sat there a shell struck the room, and
one suggested that he had better
the room, but be smiled and said,
lightning never strikes twice In the
same place Hardly had he said this
when another shell tore OF his thigh, and he
carried dying into DR.. Fayrer's house
on the other side OF the road. Sir Henry
had been in poor health for d
long time before the mutiny. He had been
In the Indian service for years, and he had
for England to recover his health.
Dut getting rs far as Bombay the English
Government requested him 10 remain al
awhile, for he could not be spared
such dangerous times. He came here to
Lucknow, n foreseeing the Siege OF this
resideucy had flied many OF the rooms with
grain, without which the residency would
been Obliged TO surren der. There were
'lso taken ~ him into thls residency rice
and i r \ charcoal and sodder for the
oxen and ~ ior tho horses. But noT, ut
re- time wAen Ill the people were looking
TO him for wis. on AM eoaraso, Sir Henry
Is DYING
Our escort desert rs the sceaea un:qls
lender. beautiful aut oserpowering. ani
pbils l stood on the very spot where the
siehs aud groans OF tho bes'egsd AMI laeerl-
tod and broken hearted me- the Whig . bull
infa and fha dnmoatan hiss If huratfnu ehnlfl