dent that Cawnpore was once more in our possession.'

'Such,' says the author of 'The Indian Mutiny,' was the battle of Cawnpore, in which 1000 British troops, and 300 Sikhs, labouring under every disadvantage, a powerful sun over their heads, a merciless enemy in their front, strongly intrenched, without cavalry, and with an artillery of inferior weight, defeated 5000 native troops, armed and trained by our own officers. Perhaps in no action that ever was fought was the superior power of arrangement, moral force, personal daring, and physical strength of the European over the Asiatic, more apparent. The rebels fought well; many of them did not flinch from a hand-to-hand encounter with our troops; they stood well to their guns, served them with accuracy; but yet, in spite of this, of their strong position, of their disproportionate excess in number, they were beaten.'

And now the bugle sounds; this time to rest. The wounded were gathered together and cared for. The sentries cominenced their nightly watch, the overwrought soldiers soundly slept for many hours, when a crash that shook the earth awoke them:-Nana Sahib had blown up the Cawnpore magazine, and abandoned the place.

The following general order, issued on the morning after the battle, and one of the last General Havelock penned, must now possess a melancholy interest:

Cawnpore, won by Lord Lake in 1803, has been a happy and peaceful place ever since, until the wretched ambition of a man, whose uncle's life was, by a too indulgent government, spared in 1817, filled it in 1857 with rapine and bloodshed. When, soldiers, your valour won the bridge at the Pandoo Nuddee, you were signing the death-warrant of the helpless women and children of your comrades of the 32d. They were murdered in cold blood by the miscreant, Nana Sahib, whose troops fled in dismay at the victorious shout of your line, on the evening of the memorable 16th.

Soldiers! Your general is satisfied, and more than satisfied, with you. He has never seen steadier or mcre elevated troops-but your labours are only beginning. Between the 7th instant and the 16th, you have, under the Indian sun of July, marched 126 miles, and fought four actions: but your comrades at Lucknow are in peril. Agra is besieged; Delhi still

the focus of mutiny and rebellion. Yon must make great sacrifices, if you would obtain great results. Three cities have to be saved; two strong places to be disblockaded. Your general is confident that he can effect all these things, and restore this part of India to tranquillity, if you only second him with your efforts; and if your discipline is equal to your valour.

'Highlanders,-It was my earnest desire to afford you the opportunities of showing how your predecessors conquered at Maida;-you have not degenerated. Assaye was not won by a more silent, compact, and resolute charge, than was the village near Jausemow on the 16th instant.

'64th,-You have put to silence the jibes of your enemies throughout India. Your fire was reserved until you saw the colour of your enemy's moustaches-this gave us the victory.'

Havelock's account of these successive engagements to the circle at Bonn, has a significant mention of the courage of his eldest son, and a reference to his youngest brother, which will be deemed pleasant evidence of his habitual recollections of home:

'Cawnpore, July, 1857.

'Last week I fought four fights. On the 12th I took Futtehpore; on the 15th I fired the village Aong and the bridge over the Pandoo Nuddee; on the 16th I recaptured this place, defeating the usurper Nana Sahib in a pitched battle, and taking all his guns. I lost a hundred men. I never saw so brave a youth as the boy H.; he placed himself opposite the muzzle of a gun that was scattering death into the ranks of the 64th Queen's, and led on the regiment, under a shower of grape, to its capture. This finished the fight. The grape was deadly, but he was calm as if telling George stories about India. . . Lawrence had died of his wounds. . Mary Thornhill (a niece of the general's) is in great peril at Lucknow. I am marching to relieve it. Trust in God and pray for us. All India is up in arms against us, and everywhere around me things are looking black. Thank God for his especial mercies to me. We are campaigning in July. H. H.'

THE LESSON OF THE HERO'S LIFE. Our reverence for the memory of this good man constrains us to seek for the lessons which are to be learned from his

Preclude the operation of the evil by surcharging your sympathies with the good. Turn off your eyes from beholding vanity, by keeping ever before you the images of darling children fondly listening as they are told about their absent father by your lealhearted, loving wife.

Havelock speaks, and he says that, whatever a man's virtues, he ought to trust for his salvation exclusively to Christ alone. That he was virtuous and reputable is beyond doubt. To a long and most eventful life the reference may be made in confirmation. He was patriotic. He was unselfish. He was forgiving. He was veracious. He was temperate. He was pious. Not many of us should be found surpassing him, were investigation to be made into our duties, whether towards God or man. By coinmon consent he was a sound-minded, a right-hearted, and a good-living man.

But he held himself to be personally unworthy of the Divine mercy. By his reading of Holy Scripture he had concluded himself under sin. In more than one point had he offended against God's commandments: thence he was guilty of all. He had not continued in all things written in the book of the law to do them: consequently he was liable to the curse. But that would not befall him, if so be he would believe in Christ as the sacrifice and propitiation for sin. He did believe in Christ. He submitted himself to the righteousness of God. His sins were forgiven him. He was accepted in the Beloved. He became complete in Christ.

What has been done may be done again. Go, saith Havelock, as you are contemplating his quiet confidence in the intercession of our Great High Priestgo and do likewise. Put no trust in your own doings, for what do they amount to at the best? Have done with all reliance upon your integrity, and your loyalty, and your philanthropy; for in evincing these you have acquired no merit at all; you have simply performed your duty, and nothing more. Be the good father, and the good neighbour, and the good citizen, by all means; but be the penitent sinner nevertheless. Through God's grace I renounced dependence on myself, and went and depended on the Saviour; so-if you try-so can you.

Havelock speaks, and says that, whatever a man's liabilities to persecution, he ought to abide resolutely by his convic

tions of what is right. No secret was it to him that if he confessed Christ before men, he must expect persecution in some or other of its different forms. Not the most congenial with his religious habitudes and predilections would be the associations and companionships of mili tary life. Would he, under such circumstances as his, conceal his evangelical principles, and imitate Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly, for fear of the Jews? He revolved the question thoughtfully, and presently he was ready with his reply. He dared not act clandestinely. He was under paramount obligation to the Lord Christ. Show him that what he meant to do was wrong, and he would instantly leave it undone. Make it evident that it was at least doubtful or premature, and he would postpone it until it could be reconsidered and ascertained; but, once admit that the course which he projected was in itself prescribed by the grace and the providence of God, and an objector might forthwith hold his peace. I have opened my mouth unto the Lord,' was his answer then, 'and I cannot go back.' The satirist might sting, and the sarcastic might exasperate contempt; misrepresentation might attribute his peculiarities to eccentricity, rather than to principle; to chagrin, rather than to deliberation; to obstinacy, rather than to conscientiousness; to a deeper form of worldly policy, rather than to spirituality of mind: timidity might forebode unpleasant consequences from the misrepresentations, and expediency might gravely recommend him to be somewhat careful about the main chance; but it was in vain. The opposition, in the different forms of it, availed nothing against the call of duty from the Lord. He was not ambitious of singularity; but he was bent upon obedience. He was perfectly aware that he might be mistaken; but he exercised himself to have always a conscience void of offence toward God and toward men.

What has been done may be done again. Go, saith Havelock, as you are contemplating his inflexible adherence to his convictions-go and do likewise. Tell the employer who bids you to falsify and defraud, that you must refuse his bidding. Tell the counsellor who misquotes the apostolic text, about being all things to all men, that you must have something better than misquotation. Tell

the men of this time-serving, moneygrasping, self-seeking, luxurious generation, that, politic or impolitic, competency or no competency, through good report or through evil report, you, the individual man, mean fearlessly to do the right and straightforward thing. Tell yourself, when by unbelief you get entangled, and embarrassed, and disheartened, that light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart; and then, hoping against hope, bravely hold on your way. Through God's grace I outbraved and outlived the opposition which threatened and impeded me; so, if you try, so can you.

Havelock speaks, and says that, whatever a man's professional calling, he ought to aim evangelically at doing good.

Most sincerely did he esteem all faithful ministers of Christ, Upon the services which they conducted was he a constant attendant, whenever he had the opportunity. For a stated and settled administration, both of the word and ordinances of the gospel, he evinced the highest possible respect. In no degree would he heedlessly infringe upon what he always held to be an institution of the Head of the Church. At the same time, when those around him were perishing for lack of knowledge, and there were none ready to interfere to prevent the consummation of the calamity, he felt constrained to interfere himself. The duty of doing good and communicating was remembered. The responsibility of striving together for the faith of the gospel was realised. The injunction to love our neighbour as ourselves was apprehended. The fact that, in the apostolic times, men who were not specially ordained went everywhere preaching the Word, came up to his recollection; and, as the result, he felt that he must preach. He could expound to the inquiring the meaning of Christ's gracious invitations, and he could enforce upon the thought less the lessons of Christ's solemn admonition. He began the effort, and he continued it to the last; often, if not in every case, most diligently preparing, in order, by the manifestation of the truth, to commend himself to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

What has been done may be done again. Go, saith Havelock, as you are contemplating his evangelic services at the Shivey-dagoon and Jellalabad-go, and do

likewise. Never be ashamed of Christ. If you believe that your servants, your neighbours, your companions, are, whilst unconverted, dead in trespasses and sins, take care to tell them of their danger. If you are well assured that not one of them need to remain dead in trespasses and sins another hour, the Holy Spirit being most willing to make them alive unto God, render your assurance the ground of action, without delay or hesitation, and beseech them to invoke the new heart, through the intercession of the Son of God. Break with the selfishness that has been withholding you. Renounce the indolence that has been hindering you. Correct the mistake that has been misleading you. Through God's grace I was enabled to exhort, and to warn, and to encourage, even so that many were converted from the error of their ways: so, if you try, so will you be enabled also.

Havelock speaks, and he says that, whatever a man's ecclesiastical or theological preferences, he ought to show brotherly regard for all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity.

No doubt was there, within his circle, of the preferences which he cherished for one of the various bodies of which Christ's Church is now composed. His correspondence and his conversations, and his conduct generally, made his denominational preferences plain. It was not his habit to make light of any portion of his Lord's discovered will. Latitudinarianism, in every aspect of it, was held in utter disrepute.

But in equal disrepute did he hold every aspect of sectarianism. Who might rely upon his co-operation in their aggressions upon the world's misery and wickedness? Every Christian body under heaven. Who might send for him in any seasons of their sorrow, or assure themselves, if he was within their reach, of his readiness to weep with them as they wept? Every Christian family throughout the world. Who might trust themselves implicitly to his generosity, certain that if they were misrepresented he would fraternally undertake their defence? Every Christian community, however designated, whether so illustrious as to be envied, or so insignificant as to be despised. Who might reckon that, in the celebration of the Lord's Supper, he, if possible, would be present, gratefully acknowledging the right of every believer in Christ to show forth his death in that

service until he comes again? Every section of the entire Christian Church. Then did he make no reservation of his evangelical friendships and fellowships at all -not even in the commemoration of the death of his Redeemer at the sacramental table? He made no reservation. Enough for him that a man was a servant of the Lord Christ.

What has been done may be done again. Go, saith Havelock, as you are contemplating his large-hearted Christian charity, go and do likewise. Give way to the warmer impulses of your regenerated nature. Remember the Master's memorable reproof to the disciples who boasted that they had forbidden a man, because he followed not with them. Read the apostolic injunctions to receive one another, as Christ also hath received us to the glory of God:-'Whereunto you have already attained, walk by the same rule, mind the same thing.' Speak the truth, as you have been assisted to apprehend it, but always speak the truth in love. Through God's grace I was enabled to be valiant for the truth upon the earth, whilst I kept the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. So, if you try, will you be enabled also.

Havelock speaks, and he says that, whatever a man's maturity of Christian experience, he ought to continue diligently, faithful even unto death.

Firm was his belief in the inviolable security of the saints of God. Like an anchor to his soul, both sure and steadfast, was the persuasion that no child of God could ever perish. That every genuine Christian would be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, he knew; but then, he knew, besides, that every genuine Christian would keep himself in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life. Beyond all fair question was the guarantee of perseverance on God's part; beyond all fair question also was the duty of perseverance on his own part. Hence, his patient continuance in well-doing. Hence, his pressing towards the mark for the prize of his high calling. Hence, his diligence to be found of his Lord in peace.

What has been done may be done again. Go, saith Havelock, as we are contemplating him in the act of his departure in the Alumbagh, go and do likewise. I have found the necessity to be imperative to run with patience the

race that was set before me. I have derived no satisfaction from the reminiscences of former times, except as they have been confirmed by the habits of the present time. I have been constrained to continue in the grace of God, to hold fast the profession of my faith, to cleave unto the Lord with purpose of heart;-and now, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for He is with me: his rod and his staff they comfort me. Through God's grace I have been enabled to fight the good fight, to finish my course, to keep the faith; so, if you try, so will you be enabled also.

One distinguished soldier reminds us of another. See the one: he is dying, and thus he speaks,-'Come and show ne that a man who was at one time in a state of grace can never fall away from grace: if you can show me that, I die content; not else.' See the other: he is dying, and thus he speaks,—'Come and see how a Christian can die. I have so ruled my life for more than forty years, that when it came I might face death without fear. I die happy and contented. Thank God for my hope in the Saviour! We shall meet in heaven.'

Who dies like that? Who are tranquil, not terrified; confident, not doubtful; expectant, not desolate; joyous, not sad? The men who rule their lives as did Havelock; the men who live the life which they live in the flesh, a life of faith upon the Son of God; the men who continue and end as they began, rejoicing in Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh.

Being dead! Yes, a nation mourns his loss; and, judging from such indications as the lowering of their colours halfmasthigh by one fleet after another as his death was heard of in the United States, other nations, we gather, sympathise with our sense of loss. The country will have him honoured. India demands the celebration of his deeds. The world must know that we hold him in renown.

Be it so. But one thing is incumbent first of all. Let every reader of this sketch be personally a follower of him, as he followed Christ. Let him go and imitate his example; and whether he be the statesman, or the magistrate, or the lawyer, or the physician, or the soldier, or the merchant, or the yeoman, or the artisan, or the shopkeeper, or the assistant, or the domestic servant, bring out in the