The Progress., 1897-06-26
VICTORIA'S JUBILEE.
REV. Or. 1AlMA0E breaches UPON
A TIMELY THEME.


A TIMELY THEME.
He Pays . Glowing Tribute to Great Brit
aims Venerable Ruler-The Capacity Of
women-The splendors Of Earth and
Of Heaven.
BEATRICE, Neb, Juno 2O.-This Is DIR.
Talmage's third annual visit to the Chau-
tauqua here, one of the greatest throngs
ever assembled on this continent. He leo
tured yesterday; he breaches today Text,
Esther Y, 8, "What wilt thou. Queen
Esther"
This question, which was asked OF a
queen thousands of years ago. all civilized
nations arc this day asking OF Queen Vlc-
toria. 'What wilt thou have OF honor, OF
reward or reverence or service OF natlonal
and international reclamation? What
century," The seven miles of procession
through tho streets of London day after
tomorrow will be q small part of the con-
0ratulatory procession whose multitudi-
nous tramp will encircle the earth. The
coaebrative anthems that will sound up
from Westminster abbey and ST. Pauis
cathedral in London viii be less than the
vibration OF one harp string as compared
With tls doxologies which this hour roll
mn from all nations In praise to God for
the beautiful life and the glorious reign OF
&his Oldest queen amid many centuries.
From O'Clock Of the morning OF 1887,
when the archbisl,op OF Canterbury nd
dressed the embarrassed and weeping ana
almost afIrighted girl Of IL years with the
skartlinQ words, 'your majesty, until
this sixtieth anniversary of her enthrone-
mont. the prayer Of all good people on all
eaAes OF the seas, whether that prayer be
offered by the SOC. O00, 600 OF her subjects
or the larger number of millions who are
not her sub3eots. whether that prayer be
oolemuized In church, or rolled from great
aechestras or poured forth by military
hands from forts and battlements and In
front Of triumphant armies all around the
world, has been and Is now, God save
the ouccnl" Amid the innnlnerable col
umns that have been printed In eulogy OF
this queen at tho approaching anniversary
columns which,, put together, would be
literally miles lona-it seems to me that
the ohief cause of congratulation to her
and OF praise to God has not yet boon prop
erly emphasized, and In many cases the
chief keynote has not been struck at all.
Wa have boon told over and over again
what has occurred In the Victorian era
The mightiest thing she has done has been
almost ignored, while she has been honored
by having her name attached to indivi-
tuals and events for whom and for which
ehe had no responsibility. We have put
before us tho names Of potent and grandly
useful men and women who have lived
during her reign, but do not suppose
that She at nll helped Thomas Cariyle In
twisting his involved and mighty satires,
or helped Disrneli in issuance OF his cpl
Rrammatic wit, or helped Cardinal New
man In his crossing over from religion To
religion, or helped to inspire the enchanted
sentiments Of George Eliot and Harriet
Martineau and Mrs. Browning, or helped
to Invent any of George Cruikshank's
hoalthful cartoons or helped George Grey
In founding u British South African EN-
rirc. or kindicd the patriotic fervor with
which John Bright stirred the masses, OF
had anything to do with the invention OF
the telephone or photograph, or the build
ing up of the science of bacteriology, OF
tho directing of the Roentgen rays which
have rcvolutionizcd surgery, or helped In
the Inventions for facilitating printing
and railTcaling and ocean voyaging. One
is not to TO credited or discredited for the
Al. A1<, hv>llO Sov,r he