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336 as “a devout man, and one who prayed to God alway.” His talents were equally at the Lord's service, so that he was ever ready to visit the sick, to hold a prayer-meeting, to address an audience at a missionary or Bible meeting, while his efforts to lead the men whom he commanded to Christ, and to promote temperance and virtue among them, are well known to have been continued to the last, and to have been greatly owned of God.

Havelock was a Baptist by profession, but he would not be a close communionist. He loved all good men, and delighted to join with them in celebrating his Lord's death. In all his public acts, when he rose to eminence and command, his dispatches and orders acknowledged God, and he delighted to ascribe to him the victories that he was enabled to achieve. How touching are these, especially in his last campaign!

His life was one of continued exposure and hard service. In 1824 he fought under Sir Archibald Campbell in Burmah, where he had the satisfaction of assisting at the liberation of Dr and Mrs. Judson from the Emperor's cruel tyranny. It was then, in the midst of a serious military move, and when the corps ordered to occupy a most important point were found utterly incapable, from intoxication, to fulfill their duty, that his commander-in-chief paid him and his men that rough compliment—“Call out Havelock's saints; they are never drunk, and Havelock is always ready!” The “saints” and their leader promptly responded, the position was saved, and the enemy repulsed.

How he was esteemed by his men, for whose highest good he labored so earnestly, may be seen in the fact that when, in 1836, his house was accidentally burned with all its contents, the men of his regiment came in a body to him, begging him to allow each of them to devote one month's pay to help him to sustain the loss. He gratefully declined the aid pressed upon him, but what a satisfaction must it have been in showing the estimation in which these men held him. He might well offset any petty High Church hauteur which certain parties might affect toward him because he was a “Dissenter,” with this noble instance of the value in