Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1897-06-25

menia and Cuba? No. The Christian
nations would have gone forth with
bread and medicine aud bandages and
military relief until Abdul Hamid
would have had no throne TO - Oh, end
Woyler, the commanding assassin IL
Cuba, would have been thrust into 8
prison as dark as that in which I'll y
murdered Dr. Ruiz. am no advocate
for female suffrage. and l do not know
whether il would be best to have it, but
| point you to the queen of Grea. Bri .ain
and the nation over which she rules as
proof that woman nay be politically
dominant and prosperity reign. God
save the queen, whether now on the
throne in Buckingham palace or in
some time TO come il American White
House
And now pray God that day after
tomorrow the uncertain skies Of Eng
land, so economic Of sunshine, may pour
golden light upon all the scene, and
that since the day when in Wesimin-
ster abbey the girlish queen took III one
hand the scepter and in the other the
OH Of empire there may have been no
day so happy as that one in which She
shall this week receive the plaudits Of
Cbristcndom. May she be strengthened
in her aged body to ride the whirlwiud
f international excitement, and her
failing vision be illumincd with bright
memories Of the past and brighter VI
sions of the future, and when she quits
the throne Of earth may she have a
throne in heaven, and as the doors Of
the eternal palace are swung open may
the question Of the text sound i'll her
onraptured ears, "What wilt thou.
Queen Esther"
Another Coronation.
But Is all Of us viii be denied attend
ance on that siXtiCth anniversary coro-
nation l invite you not to the anniyer-
sary Of coronation, but TO a corona
ton itself--aye, to two coronations.
Brought up as we are, to love as no 9th
er form Of government that which is
republican and democratic, we, living
on this side Of the sea. cannot so easily
as those living on the other side Of the
sea appreciate the two coronations to
which all up and down the Bible You
and are urgently invited. Some Of You
have such morbid ideas Of religion that
you think Of it as going down into "a
dark cellar, or out on a barren com
mon, or as a fagellation, when, so far
from a dark cellar, it is a palace, and
instead Of a barren common it is a
garden, atoss with the brightest foun-
tains that were ever rainbowed, and
instead of hagellation it is coronation,
bat a coronation utterly eclipsing the
one whose sixtieth anniversary is now
being celebrated It was great day
when David, the little king who was
large enough TO thrash Goliath, took
the crown at Rabbah-a crown weigh
ing talent Of gold and encirclod with
precious stones-and the people shout
ed, Long live the king" 1t was q
great day when Pctrarch, surrounded
by - patrician youths clothed in scar
let, received from senator the laurel
crown, and the people shouted, Long
live the poet"
1t was a great day when Mark An
tony put upon Caesar the mightiest tiara
Of all the earth, and in honor Of divine
authority Caesar had it placed after
ward on the head Of the statue Of Jupiter
Olympus. 1t was a great day which the
greatest Of Frenchmen took the diedem
Of Charlemagne and put it on his own
brow. 1t was a great day when, about
an eighth Of a mile from the gate Of Je-
rusalem. under a sky pallid with thick
est darkness and on a mountain tram
mclod Of earthquake, and the air On
fire with the blasphomies Of mob, a
crown Of spikes was put upon the Ial'
lid and agonized brow of our Jesus.
But that particular coronation, amid
tears and blood and pIoans and sbiyer-
ing cataclysms. made your own corona
ton possible Paul was not a man 10
lose his equilibrium, Int when that old
missionary, with orockod back and IL
famed eyes, got glimpse Of the crown
coming to him, and coming TO you, if
you will by repentance and faith accept
it, he went into ecstasies, and his poor
eyes flashed and his crooked back
Strengthened as he cried to Timothy,
"There is laid up for me a crown Of
righteousness" and to the Corinthians,
"These athletes run to obtain cor
ruptible, we an incOrruptible, crown.
And 10 the 7 lessalonians be speaks Of
1.-THE crown Of glory" and to the Philip
plans be says, my joy and crown. "
The anostle Petor catchos the insrira-