The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-11-30


place. but this morning l had seen IL 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 tho nineteenth
century.
Honors For the Hero.
On the following day, about four
miles from tho residency, visited the
grave Of Havelook. 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 the residency which he had re-
loved he lay in 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: II
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 "secm
sion of one Of the dormitories for pur-
poses of devotion, though certain in
those days of being branded as Metho-
dists and centing hypocrites. I" He had
in carly life been immersed in Baptist
church. He acknowledged God in every
victory and says in one of his dispatches
that he owes 1t ito the power of the En-
field rifle in British hands, to British
pluck and to the blessing Of Almighty
God on a most righteous cause. - He
was accustomed to spend two hours ey-
cry morning in prayer and Bible read.
ing, and if the army was to march at s
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 A.
Sir Henry Havelock, the son in
whose arms the father died, when /
came through London invited three of
tho heroes Of Lucknow to meet me at
his table and 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 prayers?'
Yes. Have you had your breakfast
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 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 I
know what you are made Of" The en-
thaEiasm 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 generalr'
Havelock's Grave.
A plain monument marks Havelock's
grave, but the epitaph is as beautiful
and comprehensive as anything have
ever seen, and copied it then and
there, and it is rs 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 oath of November, 1857.
He was born on the 9Th of April, 1895,
at Bishops. Wermouth county, Durham,
England. Entered the army 1915.
Came to India 1923 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 1845.
Retained by adverse circumstances in
subordinate position, it was the aim Of
his life to show that the profession Of a
Christian is consistent with the fullest
discharge of the duties Of soldier. He
commanded a 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
shipwreck 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 OIL earth the reward he 30 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
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