REV. DR. TALMAGE
Th: Eminent Brooklyn Divine's Sua-
day Sermon.
Nuhjeect: “Siege of Luachnow,'*
Text: “When thon shalt “wsiege a ecitv a
fone time in making war against it tot
it, thou shalt not destroy the tries therso! by
forcing an ax them, -Deouterono
my xx., 19.
azains:
The awlulest thing nwar is hesiegzement,
forio the work deadly weapons it adds
hunver and starvation and plague, Bssfege-
meat is sometimes necosanry, but my text
commands mercy even in that, The fruit
trees must be spared beeauss they afford
food for man, “Thou shalt not destroy the
trees thereol forcing an ax agains<t
them.” Bat in my recent journey round the
world I found at Lucknow. India, the remains
of the most merciless nsiegement of the
ages, and I procesd io tell you that story for
four great rearons—:0 show you what a hor
vid thing war is and to make you ali advo-
eates for peace, to show you what genuine
Christian character is ander bombar iment,
to put a ) on Christian courage,
and to show you w splendidiy goo 1
die,
As onr train
station |
now?" an
pronunciation of
smotions rus
soni,
The word
erusity, of
gesie { by {
tor thirty
agonies thers encu
there witnaessod
have
of
Tons
uy
4
neo nl
lide lishtal
into the dimly
gaard, “Is tl
sred, “Luackno
wail
asked the
1 he answ
uct
mun,
and
which ¥
and a
poetry «
and sae
ple,
memory
talent enc
In the ear
natiy
Beiore 1
English G
*he hands
mann
of the (
time |
antiv % bys
Cod
ana t
firearms
go their we
It was
tive
the E
on, snd into
ironears
uintion of
from the {
growling for th
of the resides
nBoOn-cGr
~ify Hvis
» frye
rT ior,
Were
opie were in
3
4
of the time
heat at 1
wily
the
piace
them
the hospital
SeUryy
| shot and
women |
having
flewd
were born ; loss and less fool:
cept that w brought
snuer the ensmy 8 fire, so
tained was at t '
Of the dead borass addad
corp=es, and all wai
wien the grony of 8)
devi s glion renk
the residency, now re
riekness and
eh] iron,
Cull me early,” Tanld,
Ing, and I=t us bu at the residence
sun becomes 100 hot,” At
morning we loft our hotel in La
I said to our
HP ene take
omfort
crowded an
where nino
in
rm
ifeh
one pric
death 1
"to-morrow morn.
fit us i belorathe
in the
know, and
obliging, gentiomanly escort
us aiong ti toad by whic
Havelonk and Outram came to the relisf o
the residency.” Taat wasthe way we went,
There was a solomn stiliness as wo ap-
proached the gate of the residency, Bat-
terad and torn is the masoury of tas en-
trance. Signature of shot and punctuation
of eannon ball all up and down and every.
where,
“Here to the left,” said our escort,
fheremains of a building tne first
witiel in other days had been used as a bane
queting hall, but then was used as a hos.
pital, At tois part
place, and all such patients died,
was so great and the
that the poor fsllows
from the loss of blood,
i G'elork
’
th ¥
ne a
if
Hi
“are
The heat
food so insufficient
could not recover
They all died. Ampu-
All the anaesthetios wees
frmeture that In
exnaasted, A
other climates and une
sasy convaleseenion hore proved fatal, Yon
in's “octor.
evry’ room, and there Bir Henry Lawrenoe,
our dear commander, was wounded, While
he sat there a shell struck the room, sod
some one suguestel that he had bette:
leave the room, but he amiled and said,
Ligntning never wsirikes twice in the
game place.’ Hardly had he sald this
when another shell tore off hinthigh, aad he
was carried dying into Dr. Payrer's house
on the other side of the roxd. Sir Henry
Lawrence had been in poor health for a
long time before the mutiny, He had been
in the Indian service for years, and he had
started tor England to recover his health,
but getting as far as Bombay the English
riment requested him to remain ot
least awhile, tor he eonld not be spared
in such dangerous tim He enme hers to
Lucknow, und forsseeing the siege of this
resldency bad filled many of the rooms with
ws boun oh! to surrender, wers
into this rest doney rice
| and suza= and sharsoal and fo ller for the
osen and hay forthe horses, But now, at
i the times when all the people were looking
{to him for wislom ani courage, Bir Henry
is dving,” :
Our escort describes the szens, naique,
tender, beautiful and overpowering, anil
witle I stood on the very spot whers the
sighs nnd groans of the besiezad and Incera-
tad and broken hairta] me: the whiz of bul.
lets, and the demoniae hiss of bursting shell,
i and the roar ol rE RAYS me
the partieninre
“44 soon Sr Henry wis told
many he asked
chaplain to administer to him the holy com
munion, partieaiariv anxious for
the safery of women in the residency,
who, at aay moment, migit bs subjected to
savages who howisl around the resi.
dency, thelr breaking in only a matter of
time unless resanforcoment should
Ho would fred
roundel his
indies,
dren’!
defenss of the places, He asked forgiveness
ol all those whom he might unintentionally
have neglected or offendel He loft a mes-
sags for all his friends, He forgot not to
g.ve directions tha eara of
He charend his oMeers, saving
no means surrender, Make no
compromiss with desperadoss,
Hetook charge ;
hud established |
or
Ho
alieres, my esc
ns
had no: hours no live the
He felt
the
the
come,
SRY {0
Coed [ava
ir woman and
the
ehil-
God hein the po
for
in
horse, 3
tranty or
the
fizhting.’
Rava
the sigitl
was iors
oC
I know the
sted their t y
tiles
wr
jraged the so
wounded an i
CHTS §
the grap
fan their
when tame
When
svears of
They =
ier fied
and Out
these heginord
hay
Lattas foe
married
san cer, yee
im that
1 the was OWS Was
HnDel!
i between
» and despair, AL ons dey they hear
guns of relia!
arer, - Yet all the bouses of Lackaow wer
reanis,
irny
§
!
nearer and
5
i
tresses flied with
every step of Have
sontest ed dr
from wiadow
I asked thoaent that the
world fame : Inss in her
delinum bearing the Scotel bagpipes ade
Vaucing with the Scoteh regiment was 5 trae
story. He said he did not know but that it
was trie, Without this man's telling mo [
knew from my own observation tha
lrium sometimes qaickens some of the fa
ulties, and I rather think the Heotoh lass in
her delirium was the first to hear the bag-
pipes, 1 decline to believe that class
people who would like to kill all the pootry
of the world an! banish all the fla: sen-
| timent, They teil us thas Whit.
tier's poem atout Barbara Freitohie was
{ founded on a delusion, and that Longfellow’s
| poeme immortalized things that never or.
fetrred. The Seoteh lass did hear the slo-
gan. I almost beard it myself as I stood in-
side the residency while my escort told of
Armed ax
was
Ha story oO. Sete
| Regiment,
in?" I asked, for I oould suppress the ques.
tion no longer, His answer camo
‘was not at the moment present, but
with some other young fellows [| saw sol.
{ dines danviog while two highland pipes
played, and [ said, ‘What is all this exits.
ment? Then we came up and saw that
Havelook was in, and Ootram was Io, and
the regiments were pouring in.”
“Show us wheres they came fn, I ex-
olaimed, for I know that they did not enter
through the gate of the residency, that be.
ing bunked up Inside to keep the murderar:
out, “Here jt is’ answered my esoor:,
“Hera it isthe embrasure through which
they came,"
We walked up to the spo’. It fs now an
broken down pile of bricks a dozen yards
from the gate, irass now, but taen a
blood shuttered, bullet soattors tl opening in
the wall,
As we stood there, sithou zh the seens was
thirty seven years ago. L saw them come wn
~ Havelock pale and sick, but triamphant,
ani Outram, whom all the equesirian statues
in Caleutta and
i
“What then happened?” 1 sald to my es.
eort, Oh," he sald, *‘that Is impossible to
tell, The earth was removed from the gate,
and soon nll the army of roliel entered, ani
some of us laughed, and some cried, ani
raved, and some danecad, Highlnne
wounds on their faces to make them up-
snatched the babes ont of
mothers’ arms and Kissal them ani
thn babies along for other
to kiss, and the wounded
their
pass +d
diers
BO.
men
cheerine, and it was wild jubllee until, the
first excitement passed, the story of how
of the advancing army had been
on the way bagan to have tearfal
and the story of sufering that had
endured inside the fort, ani the an-
to children that they wars
andi to wives that thoy wera
many
wailing of noony,
“Bat were you nof embarrassed by the ar
no food with them?” He answered: “0.
course we were put on smaller rations ime
madiately in order that they might shares
with us, hut wa knew that the coming of his
would help us to hold the
place until further relia! should come. Had
arrive l as it did in a dav
re-anforecament
bestegsrs would have broken in, nnd our end
The Sepoys hn { dug six
ani would soon
cone,
ines under the residency
pve pxnio led
After we had ¢
vid bean pi
vorites
inna Ba
4
Wearaaurh
catered the army i
pera with
He
part in the wars of Barma, Afghanistar
paiga of 1843
Belained by ads
ordinate position, it
Bris life to show that
Jaristian is consistent
hnrge of the
¥
vaanded a dis
i and served t
his death
Mabhratta ean and td
1845,
Rar
fran
duties
ion in Porsian
Iva
the ex
ap wife
' #1 Day
fis blessinz of Gol
" 0
not spared to 1
earned i
gorved saw ft 10
of bis labor in
He departed to his rest in ham.
fident expestation of
rewards and houors which
IrYy wasansious to bsstow
a! nn commander, the courage aad devo
of 6 soldier, the learning of a schol sr, the
graes of a highly bred gentleman an! all
the social and domestic virtues of a
band, father and friend wore
ed together, ani strengthens), harmonized
and adornsd by the spirit of a tras Chris.
tisn, the result of the influence of the Holy
Spirit on his heart, ant of an humble rele
ance on the merits of a eraeifled Raviour,
11 Timothy, iv., 7, 8 ‘I have fought a good
fight. Ihave finishe! my course, I havs
Kept the faith, Heneeforth there is laid up
for me a crown of righteousness which the
Lord, the righteous Judge, shail give md ag
that day, and not to me ouly, but nate all
them also that love His appearing.’ This
the moment of his greatest
inampas,
sie bt eon far gronter
SIL te
iil
a
a grateful
In him the sg
Hite.
blends
Is not that magniflsent? Dut I sald while
standing at Haveioel's grave, Way does uo
England take his dust to herself, ani in
Westaiinster abboy make him a pillow? ia
magastic, yet she has expressed nothing
His widow reareltas
Do you say, “Lat him sles) in
the region where he did his grandest des «2°
Hooton in Belgium, and Von Moltke at V oe
sailies, and Grant at Viekstueg, and Stone
wall Jackson iar away from his beloval
Lexington, Va, Take him home, 0 Euge
Innd! The rescasr of ths men, women nnd
children at Lucknow! His ear now dulled
eonld net hear the roll of the organ warn ic
sounds through the venerable abbey tie
national anthem. Bat it would hear ths
sate trampet that beings up from among
those sacred walls the form of Oateam, his
feliow hero in the overthrow of the India
mutiny, Let Pardament make appropria
tion irom the national treasury, ani sows
great war ship under some favorite admiral
sail neross Moditeranean and A sony,
nnd walt at Bombay harbor for the coming
of this conqueror of conquerors, aad then,
saluted by toe Mnipping ve all tree uations,
: up and coms under
“Jupnoe,” sald the young man with |
the torn clothes and the black eve,
“considerin’ the way the police done |
me up, I think vou ought to let me |
down easy.” “Young man, if you |
came hereexpecting this court to be a |
parachute,” replied the judge, with a
harsh police court lauzh, “you are |
away off your trolley. Ninety days.” |
~incinpati Tribune.
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Sne-—1t. takes two to make a bar
gain, you know. He—Yes: but only
one gets ivi—Boston Courier.
a
Well Pat.
“It makes me mournful to think,”
old veteran of the G, A
sald an
y “that this good,
right arm of mine which carried a musket in
a hundred fights, should now bs all doubled
up and out ol shaps with rheumatism
“Wall look here, wheres have you besa living
nil this time, that yon don’t know 81, Jacohs
Oil will cure you.' And stralghi way
went for a bottle, and 10: he was cured
The straight way the sure way for the ue-
compitshment of any good in
tho seeking of the great remedy for the
of pain Is sursly the
way. Ask those
who have been and they will put
you straight,
”"
ne
Hino,
4 jife, and
Tle)
Fy ngt
bonafited
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men, 1 thiydon't ad-
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posters that
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at Youghal, Raleigh planted
potatoes ever grown in Ireland. The
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rat
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1585,
to establish in Virginia
started in April,
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Vesr nor Pain,
when that end
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with
seated assertions of its
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into his fold.
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word
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in his eco
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handiul of
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*Brothren, it doesn’t
who trings the f:h
who caught em.”
converys ngrega-
make odds
he Lord knows
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washing and cleaning an
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shows in the
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tell
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