by a wretched fool of a general, while the Sepoys set to work to destroy every bungalow and murder the officers. Women and children were seized, tormented, slain. Thirty-one Europeans in all lost their lives in Meerut. The mutineers marched toward Delhi unmolested, unpursued. The general seems to

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have been a helpless old creature, and made a poor show. when the soldiers saw the bodies of the Europeans who had been slain and mutilated they lost control of themselves, and finding no Sepoys to punish they "rushed through the bazaars killing all who came in their way."

Then all India flamed into mutiny. The King of Delhi was proclaimed emperor, and opened his court in the beautiful

provinces. It broke out in the Punjab. Even in Bombay men were blown from the guns for sedition. Calcutta was in a panic. On May 18th, Dr. Duff gave it as his opinion that "nothing but some gracious and signal interposition of the God of Providence seems competent now to save our empire in India." In June a massacre was expected in Calcutta. Englishmen and all who resided in that city of European and American race offered their services as special police. Citizens took refuge in the fort and turned every bungalow into a defense. Messengers went from house to house to warn the residents. The panic passed over. The mutineers did not know their power, and very soon forces came from Burmah. But one incident is worth noting as showing the spirit of the noblehearted men who had gone out to educate and reform the people. "I note the fact," writes Dr. Duff, "to the praise and glory of God, that, though the Mission House be absolutely unprotected, in the very heart of the native city, far away from the European quarter, I never dreamed of leaving it, never thought of getting musket or sword or any other weapon of defense, never spoke of apprehended danger before the servants, and never even asked them to be careful in locking the doors and outer gate. I say this to the praise and glory of God, as it was he that preserved my partner and myself from all fear. 'Unless the Lord the city keep, the watchmen watch in vain,' was everlastingly on our lips. We felt this as an absolute truth, and trusted in it."

Beautiful amid these scenes of horror, panic, massacre, and treason is the picture of this stout old Scotch clergyman, whose name lives among the heroes of India, relying alone on the promises of the sacred Word, calm amid danger and death. Englishmen will find many things in the history of the mutiny to make them proud of their race. If the government of India, under the rule of the company, had been marked by no other consideration than revenue gain, no matter by what means obtained, the defense of India, when the few defenders were suddenly confronted by a mutiny which soon became a rebellion, brought out the noblest traits of the English race.

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feeble generals in command at the beginning died or were put aside. New men New men came to the front. Delhi was invested. Here the Mogul king established his sovereignty. He seems to have been a foolish, wretched old man, and, although he was tried and convicted afterward of having given an order for the massacre of women and children, it appears to have been the work of the savage soldiers.

garding discipline, breaking into citizens' houses, dishonoring their families. The doting monarch held his court daily in the marble halls of the Grand Moguls, which look out upon some of the fairest valleys in India, upon a country studded with mosques and temples, studded with the ruins of an ancient and glorious civilization. On Fridays he went in state to the