H.; he placed himself opposite the muzzle of a has been a happy and peaceful place ever | battle, and taking all his guns. I lost a hundred since, until the wretched ambition of a men. I never saw so brave a youth as the boy 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 valor 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 more elevated troops-but your labors 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. You 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 valor. "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 color of your enemy's mustaches-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: Mary Thornhill (a niece of the General's) is in great peril at Lucknow. I am marching All India is up in arms against us, and every to relieve it. Trust in God and pray for us. where around me things are looking black. Thank God for his especial mercies to me. are campaigning in July. H. H." THE LESSON OF THE HERO'S LIFE. We Our reverence for the memory of this good man constrains us to seek for the lessons which are to be learned from his eventful life. It would be a reflection on his name, a practical dishonor to his reputation, to let those lessons go unlearned. If by presenting his example to general attention we can accomplish good, then we are sure he would have acquiesced in our doing so. If the narrative of his history or the mention of his habits, can be made subservient to the formation of sound character, and to the maintenance of upright conduct in other men, then we know he would have been content, but not else. Ostentatiousness he abhorred; vainglory was odious to him; to flattery he was insensible; of himself he never cared to speak. From that distant grave in the Alumbagh there comes his voice, reminding us of duties which we are sadly prone to neglect, and of privileges which we are far too ready to forego. Havelock speaks, and he says that, whatever a man's secular activities, he ought to fear God. Instantly it will be granted that our secular engagements are not more absorbing than his were. Through the whole period of his manhood he was out prominently before the world, having a good deal more than the ordinary share of harass, and turmoil, and responsibility. There were times, no doubt, when he "CAWNPORE, July, 1857. was comparatively at rest. But very often "Last week I fought four fights. On the he had for months scarcely any rest at all 12th I took Futtehpore; on the 15th I fired the-his condition in Affghanistan and Oude, village Aong and the bridge over the Pandoo Nuddee; on the 16th I recaptured this place, defeating the usurper Nana Sahib in a pitched to wit. The condition, however, was virtually immaterial. The first thing any where was to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness. That must be attended to, of course. He was not all day long at his Bible, but he invariably pondered some portion of it every day. He was not continually in the outward act of prayer, but he took care, somehow or other, to be alone both morning and evening, that he might worship and bow down. He was not constantly at church or chapel, but he was there on the Lord's day, and not unfrequently on other days besides. If for these engagements he could not find time, he just made time. Even when so pressed as he was at Jellalabad, he got his comrades who were like-minded with himself together constantly, that they might join in worshiping and in commending themselves to God; and when on his heaviest marches it was determined to start at some earlier hour than that which he had allotted to his devotions, he arose quite in time to hold undisturbed his usual fellowship with God. He lived and he died, declaring that where there is a will there is a way. What has been done may be done again. Go, saith Havelock, as we are contemplating the godliness which was nurtured by communion with God, and which consisted in walking humbly with Godgo and do likewise. When you object the anxieties of your warehouse, remember the anxieties of my tent. When you plead the distractions of your business, remember the distractions of my profession. When you vindicate your irreligiousness, by urging the pressure of your occupations night and day, remember the pressure of my occupations at Ghuznee and Lucknow. Through God's grace, I could live godly in Christ Jesus; so, if you will only try, so can you. Havelock speaks, and he says that, whatever a man's unavoidable absences from home, he ought assiduously to cherish affectionate attachment for those who constitute his home. It was his lot to be separated for a long time together from his wife and children. A sense of duty left him no alternative. Circumstances necessitated their absence from one another. But mutual attachment was cultivated with most congenial assiduity. The interchange of sympathy between the father in his solitariness on the Ganges or the Jumna, and the mother with her children on the Rhine, was uninterrupted. Letters by almost every mail were both the evidence of well-sustained affection and the generous aliment by which the affection was increased. No matter how heavy the pressure of his occupations at one time, or the agreeableness of his relaxation at another, Havelock must keep up his correspondence with home. None so dear to him on earth as its precious inmates. Nothing in his esteem comparable with the honest reciprocation of their irrepressible and yearning love. He lived and he died evincing the imperativeness and the possibility of maintaining the conjugal and the parental responsibilities untarnished and intact. What has been done may be done again. Go, saith Havelock, as you are contemplating his virtuous and honorable married life-go and do likewise. Repel the intrusion of the wrong by preoccupying your sensibilities with the right. 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 leal-hearted, 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 common 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 | ency might gravely recommend him to be again. Go, saith Havelock, as you are somewhat careful about the main chance; contemplating his quiet confidence in the but it was in vain. The opposition, in intercession of our Great High Priest the different forms of it, availed nothing go and do likewise. Put no trust in against the call of duty from the Lord. your own doings, for what do they amount He was not ambitious of singularity; but to at the best? Have done with all re- he was bent upon obedience. He was liance upon your integrity, and your loy- perfectly aware that he might be mistaken; alty, and your philanthropy; for in evinc- but he exercised himself to have always a ing these you have acquired no merit at conscience void of offense toward God and all; you have simply performed your toward men. duty, and nothing more. Be the good father, and the good neighbor, 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. 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. 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 counselor who misquotes the Havelock speaks, and says that, what- apostolic text, about being all things to all ever a man's liabilities to persecution, he men, that you must have something better ought to abide resolutely by his convictions than misquotation. Tell the men of this of what is right. No secret was it to time-serving, money-grasping, self-seeking, him that if he confessed Christ before luxurious generation, that, politic or immen, he must expect persecution in some politic, competency or no competency, or other of its different forms. Not the through good report or through evil remost congenial with his religious habi- port, you, the individual man, mean feartudes and predilections would be the as-lessly to do the right and straightforward sociations and companionships of military 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 can not 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 expedi 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. duty of doing good and communicating was remembered. The responsibility of striving together for the faith of the Gospel was realized. The injunction to love The our neighbor as ourselves was apprehended. The fact that, in the apostolic times, men who were not specially ordained went every where 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 thoughtless 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 evangelical services at the Shivey-dagoon and Jellalabad-go, and do likewise. Never be ashamed of Christ. If you believe that your servants, your neighbors, 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 VOL. XLIV.-NO. II. every aspect of sectarianism. Who might rely upon his coöperation 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 defense? 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 15 Christ Jesus, and having no confidence in the flesh. God could ever perish. That every genu-| ine Christian would be kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, he Being dead! Yes, a nation mourns his knew; but then, he knew, besides, that loss; and, judging from such indications every genuine Christian would keep him- as the lowering of their colors half-mastself in the love of God, looking for the high by one fleet after another as his mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto death was heard of in the United States, eternal life. Beyond all fair question was other nations, we gather, sympathize with the guarantee of perseverance on God's our sense of loss. The country will have part; beyond all fair question also was the him honored. India demands the celeduty of perseverance on his own part. bration of his deeds. The world must Hence, his patient continuance in well-know that we hold him in renown. doing. Hence, his pressing towards the Be it so. But one thing is incumbent mark for the prize of his high calling. first of all. Let every reader of this Hence, his diligence to be found of his sketch be personally a follower of him, as Lord in peace. 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 habitudes of a religious life henceforward the indelible eulogium: 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 me 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 That will be an association "Sacred to the Memory of Henry Havelock." That will be legible when the sculptured inscription will be illegible. That will tell when the granite and the marble are unavailing. That will be an honor done to him of which Christ will take grateful with his name which shall be consummated cognizance. all might, majesty, and dominion to Him gloriously, when in his company we ascribe that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb forever and ever. Havelock: the Broad Stone of Honor. THE CHARACTER OF HAVELOCK. In the middle ages the true hero's heart was said to be the Broad Stone of Honor-stainless and impregnable, living above fear, without spot and without reproach; on the banks of the Rhine, as we know, there frowns still the mighty, massive tower of other days-it too was called Ehrenbreitstein-The Broad Stone of Honor-because it had never yielded to attack, and storm of war and siege. Alas! it is but a fiction. The heart, spotless and without reproach, has never |