"Dinna Ye Hear Them?"
IllustrationStoryHistorical Account★★★During the Indian Mutiny, the English were besieged in the city of Lucknow, and were in momentary expectation of perishing at the hands of the fiends that surrounded them. A Scotch lassie was in this fort, and, while lying on the ground, she suddenly shouted, her face aglow with joy— “Dinna ye hear them comin’? dinna ye hear them comin’?” “Hear what?” they asked.
“Dinna ye hear them comin’?” She sprang to her feet. It was the bagpipes of her native Scotland she heard. It was a native air she heard, that was being played by a regiment of her countrymen marching to the relief of those captives; and these deliverers made them free.
Oh, friend, don’t you hear the voice of Jesus Christ calling to you now?
The point
During the siege of Lucknow, a Scottish girl hears the bagpipes of an approaching relief regiment before anyone else believes her, an image applied to hearing the voice of Christ calling.