The herald., 1897-06-21


| neer Of advancement and progress
throughout the world. You may say
/ that Great Britain does some bad things.
: So she does, but she takes about with her
. her religion, her schoolmaster, her sys-
| tenn of government. and you cannot but
say that wherever she has gone the peo-
Pile have been uplifted from the mire OF
ignorance and oppression and placed
. upon their feet as men.
The queen has ever kept watch over
her distant dominions and kept her
finger on the pulse Of her people whereve:
they might be. She has been worker.
She is linguist-else how could she talk
to those grandchildren-and a writer.
She is the wisest woman in the world.
And why should she not be? She has
faced politics for 60 years and has kept
great secrets until the time was proper
to divulge them. She has accumulated
knowledge until she excels any subject
in her kingdom. You may say there is
Gladstone. Well, she Is greater than he.
for while he has been her premier sew
eral times. in all the sixty years of her
reign, there has been no interruption to
the business Of the country, and that
through her wisdom. She does not like
wildcat schemes, but when her people
| in their sober Judgment demand some
measure, she sees that they get their de-
mands. She has in this way never affil-
lated with party, and if at times she has
seemed to favor one political party it
was because that party was carrying or
the splendid work of the empire.
Some people say she is a fgurehead.
That is because they do not know the
situation. She insists on mastering
every detail and statesmen have to
come into her presence to learn wisdom.
She's a real queen, worker, and no one
has ever been ablbe to take the reins
of government from her hands.
The queen of England has always been
the greatest friend of the United States,
| and takes great interest in all that per-
tains to it's development. Can we forget
when Abraham Lincoln was struck down
the sweet and womanly words of SYM
pathy, not for political purpose, but just
out of the depths of a tender heart?
And when Garfield, too, died her words
came again, bringing tender sympathy
and solace And this not because she
need to do so; she hadn't to beg this
country for anything. But she remem-
bered the treatment accorded to her first
born by this country, when he first
started out in life as a young man.
"It is to be remembered, too, that
Queen Victoria has done more for
women than all other women put to-
gether. She has scaled the great stair
way of woman's development and has
proved absolutely the capability of
woman for the highest position. Her
genius and her character have COM
bined to rivet the attention of the world
This woman in the home. in the court,
in trouble, in the shadow of death, has
proved that God has placed in
woman's soul all that is necessary to
make the greatest monarch since the
world began.
"Then she hates war. She hates it
because she hates misery and she knows
the bitter cost. In quiet, noble, womanly
fashion she uses her influence to keep
peace between the nations. Do you re-
member the pathetic occasion when her
ministers came to her with document
bristling with threats, that was to be
sent to this country? Her husband lay
dying. but she left his side and took her
pen and scored sentence here, another
there; put in some modifying words
and changed the tenor of the message.
1t was received in this country thank
fully, and a breach between the same
branch of the Anglo-Saxon race was
averted.
"And, if she could. that arbitration
treaty would have been ratified. Nay.
1 say further, if Victoria had been reign
ing instead of George III. there would
have been no breach between the Anglo
Saxon race. Never She would have
appealed to the justice, the honor of her
ministers, and she would have ruled
over three an done-half millions of miles
more territory and would have seventy
millions more people"
DR.. Thompson next adverted to her
majesty as being head of the Anglican
church, and in the religious aspect of her
character being distinguished by
broad sympathy, minus all sectarianism
and wise and cautious in all she did.
| The speaker then drew attention to
the request of the queen that her jubilee
be particularly remembered by helping
the sick and the poor, and made STIR
ring appeal that every one respond by
contributing generously.
"The city of London" said Dr. Thorn
son, in concluding, sis the largest and
strongest city in the world-it is the
cradle of liberty. There, when the peo-
pie defed their king, was laid the foun-
dation of those liberties which are our
heritage today. They say that there will
be so 900. 900 of people in that city this
week. What for? Not all for curiosity,
but to honor the woman who, as wife,
as mother, as widow and as a ruler of
surprising wisdom and beneficent pow
er, has commanded the admiration of
the world.
"And, think of it! the stars and
stripes is blending with the union jack
And the eagle, king Of its kind, will this
week drop flowers al the feet of the
British lion, and prayers will go up for
the good queen who has always loved
our nation"
Upon the conclusion of the address the
choir sang ITO Thee, o Country" during
! the offertory, after which the hymn
God Bless Our Native Land" was sung
by the audience to the tune America"
The benediction was given and the jubi-
| lee service was at an end.
UNITY CHURCH