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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
wrung out, and said, "Let US Co." I
had seen the residency at Lucknow the
day before with a beloved missionary,
and he told me many interesting facts con-
cernine the besiegement Of that place, but
this morning I had seen 1t In company with
one who in that awful 1857 OF the Indian
mutiny with his own fire had fought the be-
siegers, and with his own ear had heard tho
yell Of the mtscreants as they tried to storm
the walls, and with his own eyes had Wit
messed scene Of pang and sacrifice and en-
durance and bereavement and prowess and
rescue which has made all this Lucknow
fortress and its surroundings the Mount CAL
vary OF the nineteenth century.
On the following day, about four miles
from the residency, visited the grave OF
Hayelock. The scenes Of hardship and salt
sacrifice through which he had passed were
too much for mortal endurance, and rev
days after Havelock left the residency which
he had relieved 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 telegraph
wires had told all Nations that Have.
lock was sick unto death. He had
received the message OF congratulation from
Queen Victoria over his triumphs and had
been knighted, and such a reception rs Eng
land never gavet to any man since Weiling-
ton came back from Waterloo awaited his
return. But he will never again see his ma
tive 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 saidto General Outram II
die happy and contented. have for forty
years SO ruled my life that when death came
I might face It without fear. TO diels
gain" Indeed this was no new sentiment
tality with him. He once stated that ID
boyhood with tour companions he was ac
customed to seek the ''secluslon OF one OF
the dormitories for purposes OF devotion,
though certain In those days Oh being brand.
ed as Methodists and canting hypocrites.
He had in early life been immersed IN Bap-
tist church. Heacknowledged God In every
Victory and says In one Of his dispatches
that he owes It "to the power Of the Enfield
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 every morning In prayer
and Bible reading, and If the army was to
march at o'clock he arose for purposes or
religious devotion at o'clock, and II the
army was to march at 6o'clock he arose ct 4.
A plain monument marks HavelocS's
grave, but the epitaph is as beautiful ana
Comprehensive as anything Ihave ever seen,
and copied 1t then and there, and 1t Is as
follows: "Here rest the mortal remains OF
Henry Havelock, major general In the Brit
ish army and knight Commander of the
Bath, who died at Dllkoosha Lucknow OF
dysentry produced by the hardships OF
campaign 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, Eng
land. Entered the army 1916. Came to In
dia 1928 and served there with little inter.
ruption till his death. He bore an honorable
part In the wars OF Burma, Afghanistan, the
Mahratta campaign OF 1843 and the Sutlij OF
1S45. Retained by adverse circumstances
In subordinate position, It was the aim
Of his life to show that the profession OF
Christian is consistent with the fullest
discharge OF the duties OF a soldier. He
commanded division In the Persian expe-
ditiou OF 1857. In the terrible convulson OF
that year bis genius and character were at
length fully developed and known to the
world. Saved from shipwreck on the Cey-
lon coast by the 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 re-
ceIve on earth the reward he 80 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 hum
BILE but confident expectation of far greater
rewards and honors which a grateful coun-
try was anxious to bestow. In him the skill
of a commander, the courage and devotion
of a soldier, the learning OF a scholar, the
grace of highly bred gentleman and all
the social and domestic virtues OF hus-
band, father and friend were blend
ed together, and strengthened, harmonized
and adorned by the spirit of a true Chris
tian, the result OF the influence OF the Holy
Spirit on his heart, and Of an humble relt-
ance on the merits OF cr1clfied Saviour.
II Timothy, iv., Z, 8: u have fought good
fight. 7 have finished my course. I have
kept the faith. Henceforth there Is laid up
for me crown OF righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, 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 his sorro wing widow
and family"
Is not that magnificent? But I said while
a. I1aSolOCk BEdNc3 why QOcS uOL
England take his dust to herself and in
Westminster abbey make him pillow? In
all her history Of wars there is no name so
magnetic, yet she has expressed nothing
on this mans tomb. His widow reared tho
Tombstone. Do you say, "Let him sleep in
the region where he did his grandest deeds?"
The same reason would have buried Well
lington in Belgium, and Won Moltke at YER
sailles, and Grant at Vlcksburg, and Stone
wall Jackson far away from his beloved
Lexington. Va. Take him home, o Eng
land! The rescuer of the men, women and
children at Lucknow! His ear now dulled
could not hear the roll Of the organ when 1t
sounds through the venerable abbey the
national anthem. But It would hear the
same trumpet that brings up from among
those sacred walls the form Of Outram, his
fellow hero In the overthrow OF the Indian
mutiny. Let Parliament make appropria-
tion from the national treasury. and some
great war ship under some favorite admiral
sail across Mediterranean and Abraham seas,
and wait at Bombay harbor for the coming
OF this conqueror OF conquerors. and then,
saluted by the shipping Of all free nations,
let him 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.
Bones Crushed to Powder.