Delaware State journal and statesman., 1866-12-25
ANECDOTES OF QUEEN VICTORIA.


England has never had ruler who hal
obtained such hold on the people as hei
present matron Queen, and she is scarcely
less admired and respected in this country
though in different way. With u.s. hei
royalty adds no lustre to her honored name,
or, if at all, II is but that her exalted posi-
ton, which has proved ruinous to the per.
sonal characters and domestic virtues of SO
many Of her race, has had no power fol
evil over her pure womanly nature. We
respect her as the true wife, the devoted
mother, and the earnest Christian who, in
all the relations Of life to which woman may
be called, may we'll stand as a noble model.
AS a pattern of all tho public, social and do
mestic virtues, she has been long and fire.
quently held up for admiration and imiia-
tion. Her modest, unobtrusive discharge Of
the humblest Christian duties is less gener-
ally known.
DR.. Guthrie says In the Sunday Magazine,
that some three years ago, when in the
neighborhood Of Balmoral, he was asked to
visit q widow who, but q short time pre-
viously, had been bereaved of her husband
"a plain, humble, but Dious man, who had
been an elder in the Free Church congrega-
tlon there. Her home was a cottage within
the Queens grounds. "Within these walls
the Queen had stood, with kind handssmooth-
Ing the thorns Of dying mans pillow.
There, left alone with him at her own re-
| quest, she had sat by the bed of Death
Queen ministering to the comfort of saint
preparing one of her humblest subjects TO
meet the sovereign of US all. The scene, as
our fancy pictured it, seemed like the break
ing of the day when old prophecies shall be
| fulfilled; kings become nursing fathers and
queens nursing mothers to the Church."
AT meeting in behalf Of the Army Scrip.
ture Readers and Soldiers Friend Society,
held recently at Cambridge, England, an
army chaplain related that the clergyman at
Osborne, having occasion to visit an aged
parishioner, found lady in deep mourning
seated by the bedside of the invalid, read
ing to him the word of God. He was about
TO retire, but the lady asked him to remain,
as she would not wish the invalid to lose
the comfort which q minister might afford
The lady retired, and the Clergyman found
lying on the bed book with texts of Scrip
ture adapted to the sick, and he found that
out OF that book the lady in black, who was
none other than the Queen, had been read
ing portions Of Scripture to the sick man.
In commemoration Of this scene, the cele-
brated artist, Mr. Gourlay Steel, has paint.
ed picture entitled, "a Cottage Bedside at
Osborne" and in the pamphlet which has
been drawn up to illustrate the painting,
the above anecdote is related, together with
others not less indicative of her tender
spirit.
The aberdeen Free Press tells how she
visited farmer who had been seriously i'll
for near six months; and, lest her visit might
have an exciting effect upon him, sent word
the previous day that she wished TO go to
his bedside, and hoped he would not be an
noyed, and how afterwards she sent inquir-
les of kind interest as to his health.
It is said that the cottages near Balmoral
are often visited by the gentle Queen and
the members of her family, and that she has
always taken generous interest in the well
fare of their humble tenants She some
times goes from door to door with large
roll of serviceahle Scotch ''linseY" in her
arms, and the fabric grows shorter by
'pattern" as she departs from each lowly
dwelling.
Some regret has been expressed by the
English people that their Sovereign has re-
mained so much in exclusion since her be-
reavement; but when we think of the pure
influence which emanates from the throne at
this time, and then revert to the days of
gayer court, we can rejoice that Englands
Queen is, in being a sovereign, no less q
noble woman.--7he MethOdist.