The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-21
TALMAGE ON THE JUBILEE.
GREATEST TRIUMPH OF vICToRIA's
CAREER OVERLOOKED.


land Declared the MiShtiest Chau,-
pion of Christianity in the World
To-day-The sermon Preached at
the Nebraska Chautauqua From n
Text Taken From Esther.
Beatrice. Neb., June 2o.-This is DR. Tai
images third annual visit TO the chaurau-
qua here, one of the greatest throngs ever
assembled on this continent. He lectur-
Cd yesterday; he breaches to-day. Text;
Esther SO: What wnt thou, Queen
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This question, which was asked OF
queen thousands Of years ago al civilized
ia lions are this day ASKING of Queen Vic
toria. What wilt thou have Of honor, OF
reward, or reverence, or service, of ma
tional ard International reclamation?
What wilt thou, the queen Of the nine
teenth century," The seven miles of
procession through the streets of London
day after tomorrow viii be small part
Of the congra tulatory procession whose
multitudinous tramp Will euciIca the
earth. The celebrative anthems tat will
sound up from Westminster Abbey and St
Pauls Cathedral in London will be less
than the vibration of one hsrp-string as
compared with the doxologies which this
hour roll up from ali nations in praise to
God for the beautiful life and the glorious
reign Of this oldest queen amid many cen
turtles. From O'Clock of the morning Of
1887, when the Archbishop of Canterbury
addressed the embarrassed and
weeping and almost afrghted
girl of IS years with the start
ling words, Your majesty" until this
sixtieth anniversary of her enthronement
the prayer OF all good people on all sides
of the seas, whether that prayer be offered
by the three hundred millions of her sub
jects or the larger number of millions who
are not her subjects, whether that prayer
be solemuized in church, or rolled from
great orchestras, or poured forth by mill
tary bands from forts and battlements and
in front of triumphant armies all around
the world, has been and is now, God save
the queen! Amid the innumerable col
umns that have been printed in eulogy of
this queen at the approaching anniversary,
columns which, put together, would be
literally miles long-it seems TO
me that the chief cause of
congratulation to her aud of praise
TO God has not yet been properly
emphasized. and in many cases the chief
keynote has not been struck a ALL We
have been told over and over again what
has occurred in the Victorian era The
mightiest thing she has done has been al
most ignored, while she has been honored
by having her name attached 20 indivd-
uals and events for whom and for which
she had no responsibility. We have put
before us the names OF potent and grand
~ useful men and women who have lived
during her reign, but l do not suppose
that she at all helped Thomas Carlyle in
twisting his involved and mighty satres,
or helped Disraen in issuance of his cpl
grammatic wit, or helped Cardinal New
man in his crossing over from religion to
religion, or helped to inspire the en-
ehdnted sentiments OF George Eliot and
Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Browning
or helped to invent any of George Cruik-
shanks healthful cartoons, or helped
George Grey in founding a British South
African empire, or kindled the patriotic
fervor with which John Bright stirred the
masses or had anything to do with the
invention OF the telephone or photograph,
or the building up of the science OF bac-
terology, or the directing of the Roent-
gen rays which have revoluuonized sur
gerry, or helped in the inventions for fac
ihtatins printing and rairOading and
ocean voyaging One is not TO be credited
or discredited for the virtue or the vice.
the brilhance or the stupidity, of his or
her contemporaries. While Queen Victoria
has been the friends of all art all liter
AZURE, all science, all invention, all re-
form, her reign will be most remember
ed for all time and gil eternity as the
reign of Christianity. Beginning with
that scene ~ 8 O'Clock in the morning in
kensington palace, where she asked the
Archbishop of Canterbury TO pray for her,
and they knelt down, imploring Divine
guidance until this hour not only in the
sublime Liturgy of her Established
Church but on all occasions. she has di-
rectly or indirectly declared, Il believe in
God, the Father Almighty Maker of heav-
en- ana earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only
begotten Son." I declare II, fearless Of con-
tradiction, that the .nightiest champion
Of Christianity to-day is the throne of
England. The queens book, so much crit
icised at the eime Of its appearance some
saying II was not skilfully done and some
saying that the private affairs OF a house
bold ought not so TO have boon exposed
was nevertheless a book Of vast useful
ness from the fact that it showed that
God was acknowledged in all her life and
that Rock OF Ages" was not an unusual
song In Windsor Castle. Was her son, the
Prince OF Wales, down with an illness
that baffled the greatest doctors Of Eng
land? Then she proclaimed a day Of pray
or 70 Almighty God, and In answer to the
prayers Of the whole civilized world the
prince got well. Was Sebastopol 70 be taxi
en- and the thousands Of bereaved homes
OF soldiers 70 be comforted she called her
nation TO It's knees, and the prayer was
answered. See her walking through tho
hospitals like an angel OF Mercy Was
there ever an explosion Of fire damp in
the mines Of Sheffield or Wales and her
telegram was not the first 20 arrive with
help and Christian sympathy? Is President
Garheld dying at Long Branch and is not
the cable under the sea, reaching to Bal
Snoral Castle, kept busy announcing the
symptoms Of the sufferer?
believe that no throne since the throne
OF David and the throne Of Hezekiah and
the throne OF Esther has been in such con-
slant touch with the throne OF heaven as
the throne OF Victoria. From what /
know Of her habits, she reads the Bible
more than she does Shakespeare. She adj
Hires the hymns Of Horatio Bonar more
than she does Byron's "Corsair" She has
not knowingly admitted into her presence
q corrupt man or dissolute woman. To
very distinguished novellsts ana very oel-
sbrated prima donnas she has declined re-
eeption because they were immoral All
the coming centurieF OF time cannot re-
woke the advantages Of having had sixty
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