Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-12-12

With US, but We knew that the comng OF his
reinforcement would help US to hold the
,lace until further relief should come. Had
lot this first relief arrive as it did in n day
" two at most and perhaps in any hour the
,esiegers would have broken in, and our end
would have come. The Sepoys had dug six
mines under the residency and would soon
AVE exploded all.
After " had obtained few bullets that
lad been picked out of the wall, ami piecs
II the bombs hell, we walked around the elo-
luent ruins and put our hands into the scars
" the shattered masonry and explored the
cemetery inside the fort, where hundreds of
he dead soldiers await II coming of the
Lord OF Hosts at the list day, and We
ould endure no more. My nerves were
Ill a-tremble, AMI my emotions were
vrunS out, and I said. "Let US CO." ]
lad seen the resid ,ncy at Lucknow the
lay before with beloved missionary,
md he told me many interesting facts con-
.erning the besieSsmenr of that place, but
his morning I had seen it in company with
,ne who in that awful 1857 of the Indian
nutiny with his own fire had fought the be-
segers, and with his own ear had heard tie
rell OF tho miscreants as they tried to storm
he walls, and with his own eyes had wit
iessed scene of pang and sacrifice and en-
iurance and bereavement and prowess AMI
:escue which has made all this Lucknow
ortress and its surroundings the Mount Cal.
On the following day, about four miles
rom the resideDcy, 1 visited the grave OF
HavelocS. The scenes of hardship an self
,acriflce through which he had passed were
90 much for mortal endurance, and a few
lays after Havelock left the resilsncy which
1e had relieved he lay in n tent a-dying,
while his son, whom saw in LONDON on my
way here, was reading to the old hero the
.onsolatory Scriptures. The telegraph
wires had told all Nations. that Have
ock was sick unto death. He had
received the message of eongratulatioa from
Queen Victoria over his triumphs and hal
been knfghtei, |, and such a reception AS Eng.
land never gave to any man since Wellins
ION came back from Waterloo awaited his
return. But he will never again see his
tive land. He has led his last army and
planned the last battle. Yet he is TO gair
another victory. He declared it when il
his last hours he saidto General DURAN So
die happy and cohtentel. 1 have for forty
years so ruled nv life that when death cam
might face it without fear. To dieh
GAIN" InIeet this was no new sentimsn
iality with hi Y. He once stated that II
boyhood with tour companions he was ac
customed to sehk' the "seclusion OF one
the dormitorie5 for purposes of devotion
though certain il-those days OF being brand
Ell as Methodists ap cautinS hypocrtes.
He had in early life been immersed in a Bap
list shutch. He acknowledged God in ever
victory an says in one OF his disp Itcle
that he owes = "to the power of the Enfiel
tihe in British han Is, to British puck and t,
Me blessing of Almighty Col on mos
righteous causa."' He was accustomed t.
spend two hours every mornin. in praye
and Bible rea ling, AMI il the army was t.
march at o'clocS he arose for purposes
religious devotion at 6 o'c,o,S, AMI If tn
rmy was to march at Go clock he arose at
"A plain monument marks Havelock'
kut tba IL Ft,I
Comprehensive as anythin; have everseen
and II copied it then aud there, an it is a
foaiows" Here East thu mortal remains
Henry Hayelock. ma ior gensr ii in the Brit
lsh army and knight C0mnan Ter of tn,
Bath, ow9o diei at D.kooSla Lucknow o
1yseHry prolucei by the hariships of
senpsiSn in which ne achieved immorta
lame. on the 2ith OF November, 1857
Ha,was born on RE 9TH of April. 1895. a
Bishops. wermouth County durham, Eng
land. Enterei the army 1915. Came to In
.5ia 1923 and servsi there with little inter
suption till his death. He bore IN honorabl,
part in the wars o. Burma, AfShanistau. III,
Hahratta camp lign OF 1913 AMI the Sutiij o
1915. Retained hy Iverse circu Instance
IN subordinate position, it was the ain
II mis- life to show that the profe ession O
1 Christian il consistent with the fullest
discharge OF the duties of a soldier. He
,omnaniei division in the Persian exp
iition OF 1851. In the terrible convu sion o
that year his genius AMI Character wsre al
enGth fully dev ilopei AM known TO tbs
world. Saved from slipwracl on the Cey.
on coast by tho Providence which designed
Aim for greater things, he WAS nominated
% the command of tho colu m destine tc
relieve the brlvs garrison OF Lucknow
This object, alter almost super iumtr
sxertion, he, by the blessing of Goi, ac.
.omplished. But he WIS not spared to re-
ceive on earth tho rev rd he SO dearl,
earned. The Divine Master whom he
served saw fit to remove him from the spher,
OF his labor in the moment OF his creates
triumphs. He departed to his rest in hum
be but confident expectation of far create
rewards and hOnorS which n grateful coun
try was anxious to 6cstow. In him the skill
OF Il commln Ter. thh courage AMI devotion
OF a soldier, tGr leIrnIn: OF a scholar, tn,
grace Of i highly brei gent ieman an all
the social and domestic virtues of a hus-
band, father AMI friend We're blend
ed together. an strengthened, harmonizei
an adorned by the spirit of trus Chris
tian, the result OF the influence of the Holy
Spirit on his heart, ant of an humble reli
nncs on the mer Is of n crucIded Saviour.
III Timothy, w.. Z. s. Il have fought a good
fl sht. L have hnlshe | my course. L have
kept the faith. Hsncefortn there is laid up
for me 4 crown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous JUICE, 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 MS sorrowinS widow
and family"
Is not that ma-niflc ent? But said Will.
standing at Hlvelocl's grave, Way does moi
England take his dust to herself. an | in
estninster abbey make him n pillow? In
all her history of wars there is no name so
yet sha. has expressed nothing
on this mans tomb. HIS widow reared ths
tombstone. Do YOU say, ''Let him sleep in
the region where he iii | his -randest deeds?'
The same reason woud have buried Wei
linCtol in Belgium, and Won Moltke at Ver-
sailies, an Grant at Vickso ourg, and Stone
wall Jackson lar away from his beloved
Lexington, VI. Take him home, o Eng.
land, The rescuer of the man, women and
cIIllren 1T Lucknow! His ear now duled |
could not hear the roll of the organ when il
sounds through the venerable abbey the |
national anthem. But it would hear the |
5 Ime trumpet that brings up from among
those SACRED walls the form of Outram, bis |
fellow nero in the overthrow of the Iniiar
mutinv. Let Par lament make appropria.
ton irom'the national treasury. and somt
great war ship under some favorite admira |
sail across Mediterranean and Abraham seas
and waif at Bombay harbor for the coming |
OF this cohI ueT0r OF conquerors. and then
saluted i>y tne shipping OF all free nations, !
let MIN pass on and pass up and come under |
the Arches of the abbey and along the aisles |
where have been carried the mightiest dead !
of many centuries.