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356 assumed its malignant form. He realized that his hour had come, and his work was done, and that now he had nothing more to do but to die. For that, too, he was ready. “The Resurrection and the Life” was beside him in that little tent, ready to pass with him through the valley and shadow of death. He feared no evil. Messages to his dear ones were delivered, and his last thoughts were given to the Redeemer, whom he had served and loved so long. He would say, and repeat it, “I die happy and contented!” To his eldest son, who waited upon him with such tenderness and loving attention, (though himself a wounded man and needing care,) he exclaimed, “My son, see how a Christian can die!”

General Outram, his illustrious comrade, asked to be permitted to see him. They had confronted danger together on many a hard-fought field, and death in all its reality was to be faced now. The Christian warrior looked up into the kindly, sympathetic countenance of his visitor, and said to him, “Sir James, for more than forty years I have so ruled my life that when death came I might face it without fear.” Then pausing, as he realized that death had come, he added: “So be it. I am not in the least afraid. To die is gain!”

On the evening of the 24th he “departed to be with Christ,” realizing the literal truthfulness of the favorite lines,

He was buried amid the tears of those he saved, and his companions in arms, on the following day, in the Alumbagh, five miles on the Cawnpore side of Lucknow.

We cannot conclude without referring to the loss of the garrison and the cost of their rescue. Of the 1,692 fighting men in the Residency on the 29th of June, the loss was 713—including 49