The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-11-30

smaller rations Immediately in order
that they might share with us, but we
knew that the coming of this reinforce
ment would help us to hold the place
until further relief should come Had
not this first belief arrived as it did in
a Cay or two at most and perhaps in
nny hour the besiegers would have bro
lren in, and our end would have come.
The sepoys had dug six mines under
the residency and would soon have ex-
ploded all. y
After we had obtained afew bullets
that had been picked out of the wall
and piece of bombshell we walked
around the eloquent ruins, and put our
hands into the scars OF the shattered
masonry and explored the cemetery in
side the fort, where hundreds of the
dead soldiers await the coming of the
Lord of Hosts at the last day, and we
could endure no more. My nerves were
all a-tremble, and my emotions were
wrnng out, and said, "Let US 60" l
had seen the residency at LUCKNOW the
day before with beloved missionary,
and he told me many interesting facts
concerning the besiegement OF that
place, but this morning had seen it in
company with one who in that awful
1857 of the Indian mutiny with his own
fire had fought the besiegers, and with
his own ear had heard the yell OF the
miscreants as they tried to storm the
walls, and with his own eyes had wit
messed scene of pang and sacrifice and
endurance and bereavement and PROV
ess and rescue which has made all this
Lucknow fortress and its surroundings
the Mount Calvary of the nineteenth
century.
Honors For the Hero.
On the following day, about four
miles from the residency, ] visited the
grave of Havelock The scenes of hard
ship and self sacrifice through which he
had passed were too much for mortal
endurance, and few days after Have
lock left tho rcsidency which he had re-
lieved he lay il tent a-dying, while
his son, whom | saw in London on my
way here, was reading to the old hero
the consolatory Scriptures. The tele-
graph wires had told all nations that
Havelock was sick unto death. He had
received the message of congratulation
from Queen Victoria over his triumphs
and had been knighted and such re-
ception as England never gave to any
man since Wellington came back from
Waterloo awaited his return. But he
will never again see his native land.
He has led his last army and planned the
last battle Yet he is to gain another
victory. He declared it when in his last
hours he said to General Outram: 81
die happy and contented. / have for 40
years so ruled my life that when death
came might face it without fear. To
die Is gain. Indeed this was no new
sentimentality with him. He once stated
that in boyhood with four companions
he was accustomed to seek the "seclu-
sion of one of the dormitories for pur-
poses of devotion, though certain in
those days of being branded as Metho-
dists and canting hypocrites. ~ He had
in early life been immersed in Baptist
church. He acknowledged God in every
victory and says in one of his dispatches
that he owes it ''to the power of the En-
field rifle in British hands, to British
pluck and to the blessing of Almighty
God on most righteous cause. He
was accustomed to spend two hours ev
cry morning in prayer and Bible read
ing, and if the army was to march at
O. clock he arose for purposes OF religious
devotion at O'Clock, and if the army
was to march at 6 O'Clock he arose at 4.
Sir Henry Havelock, the son in
whose arms the father died, when |
came through London invited three of
the heroes Of Lucknow to meet me at
his table ann told me concerning his
father some most inspiring and Chris
tian things. He said: ''My father knew
not what fear was. He would say to me
in the morning as he came out of his
tent, Harry, have you read the book?'
Yes. Have you said your prayersT
Yes Have you had your breakfast?
Yes. Come, then, and let us mount
and go out to be shot at and die like
gentlemen. 4" The three other heroes
Of Lucknow at that table told of Gen
eral Havelock other things just as stir
ring. What speech that was Havelock
made to his soldiers as he started for
Cawnpur, India: "Over 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
know what you are made of. y" The ell
thusiasm of his men was well 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 the general
God bless the generalP
ERyelocks Grave.
A plain monument marks Havelock's
grave, bot the epitaph is as beautiful
and comprehensive as anything l have
aver seen, aud l copied it then and
there, and it is as follows: Here rest
The mortal remains of Henry HaveloclI,
major general in the British army and
Knight Commander of tie Bath, who
died at Dilkoosha Lucknow of dysentry
nrodncad nv the hardships of q CAM