Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-26
Yes..

Come, then, and let us mount and go
out to be shot at and die like gentlemen .
The three other heroes at Lucknow at
thnt table told Of General Hnyelock other
things just as stirring. What speech that
was Hnvelock made TO his soldiers as bo
started for Cawnpur, Indial
cover 200 OF our race are still alive in
Cawnpur With Gods help we will save
them from death, am trying you SO.
yerely, my men, but know what you nre
made of. T"
The enthusiasm OF his men was we'll
suggested by tho soldier lying asleep, and,
Hayelock riding along, his horse stumbled
over tho soldier aud woke him, and tie
soldier. recc mixing the general, cried t
cheerily; MAKE room for tho general
God bless tho general"
Havelocls's Immortal Fame.
A plain monument marks Hnvelock's
grave, but the epitnph Ia as beautiful and
comprehensive as anything I have ever
seen, and copied 1t then and there, and
It Is as follows;
"Hcre rest tho mortal remains Of Henry
Hnvelock, major general in tho British
army md knight commander OF tho bath,
who died at Dilkoosha, Lucknow, OF dys.
entcry, produced by the hardships of
campaign in which he achieved Immortal
fame, ON the cath of November, 1867. He
was born on tho 9th Of April, 1895, at
Bishops, Wernouth county, Durham,
England; entered the army 1915; came to
India 1923 and served thoro with little in
corruption till his death He bore an hon
orable part in tho wars OF Burma, Az
ghanlstan, the Mahratta campaign OF ls43
and the Sutlej Of 1916.
Retained by adverse circumstances in
subordinate position, 1t WINS the aim OF
his life to show that tho profession of
Christian Is consistent with tho fullest
discharge of the duties OF soldier. He
commanded division in the Persian ex-
petition Of 1857. In the terrible convul-
sion Of that year bis genius and character
were at length fully developed and known
to the world. Saved from shipwreck ON
tho Ceylon coast by that providence which
designed him for greater things, no was
nominated to the command Of the column
destined TO relieve the brave garrison of
Lucknow. This object, nfter almost SUI
perhuman ozertlon, no by the blessing Of
God accomplished. But he was not spared
to receive on earth the reward so dearly
earned. Tho Divine Master whom he sery.
cd saw fit to remove him from the sphere
trimnphs. IIc departed to his rest in hum
bic but confident expectation OF far grenter
rewards and honors which grateful
country was anxious to bestow. In him
the skin Of commander, the courage and
devotion Of soldier, tho learning Of a
scholar tho grace Of a highly bred gentle.
man and all the social and domestic yir.
tues of a husband, father and friend were
blended together and strengthened, hnr-
monizcd and adorned by the spirit Of
truc Christian, tho result OF the influence
of the Holy Spirit on his heart and of
humble reliance on the merits OF u cruel
fed Saviour, ii Timothy ~, Z, S. i have
fought a good fight; l have finished my
courses have kept the faith Henceforth
there is laid up for me crown of right.
eousness which tho Lord, tho righteous
Judge, shall give nc Mt that day, and not to
mo only, but unto all them also that love
his appearing This monument is erect.
ed by his sorrowing widow and family"
Is not that magnificent But 1 said
while standing at HaveloclS's grave, Why
does not England take his dust to herself
and in Westminster abbey make him q
pillow
The Application.
In all hor history Of wars there Is no
name so magnetic, yet sho has oppressed
nothing OH this mans tomb. His widow
reared tho tombstone. Do you say, Lot
him sleep In the region where he did his
grandest deedsY
The same reason would have buried
Wellington In Belgium, and Won Moltke
at Versailles, and Grant at VloksburR. and
Stonewall jackson fur away from his be.
loved Lexington, Va. Take him home, o
England! The resouor OF the men. women
and children at Lucknow His car now
dulled could not hear the roll Of tho organ
when 1t sounds through the venerable alb
hey the national anthem, but 1t word
hear the same trumpet that brings up
from among those sacred walls tho form
OF Outram, his fellow hero in the over.
throw of tho Indian mutlny. Let parlia. |
mont make appropriation from the ma. |
tlonAl treasury and some great wArship |
under some favorite admiral sail across |
and Arabian seas md wait |
AT bombay harbor for the coming OF this |
Sohqueror OF conquernrs, and then, snluted |
oy the shipping OF all FREQ nations, let him
pass on ana pass up and come under the
utohes OF the abbey md along the aislns
whore nave been carried the mightiest
dead Of many centuries.
Some audiences and some reaasrs ,ra 90
SLOW oil thought and so stupid that they |
need an application made OF every sub
get But tho people who get this sermon
nave made tho application for themselves
challenge you to say whether
or not have kept my promise when In
tho opening Of this discourse said
would show you four things-what an
AWlul anair war is, what genuine Christian
character Is under bombardment what il
-he coronation OF Christian courage and
VOW splendidly good people die. And hero
SDle.h my hrso sermon of tho round tho