Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1897-06-24
VICT0RIA'S JUBILEE.
REV. DR.. TALMAeE breaches UPON
A TIMELY THEME.

He Pays n Glowing Tribute to Great Brit
4in's venerabIe Ruler-The Capacity of
Women-The Splendors OF Earth and
of Heaven.
BEATRICE, Neb., June 20.-This is DR..
Talmage's third annual visit to the Chau-
tauqua here, one of the greatest throngs
ever assembled ON this continent. He lee
tured yesterday; he breaches today. Text,
Esther v, 8, "What wilt thou, Queen
Esther?"
This question, which was asked of a
queen thousands of years ago, all civilized
nations are this day asking of Queen Vic
toria. "What wilt thou have of honor, Of
reward or reverence or service of national
and international acolamation? What
wilt thou, the queen of the nineteenth
century," The seven miles of procession
through the streets of London day after
tomorrow will be small part of the con-
gratulatory procession whose multitude
nous tramp will enoircle the earth. The
celebrative anthems that will sound up
from Westminster abbey and st. Pauls
cathedral in London will be less than the
vibration of ono harp string us compared
with tho doxologies which this hour roll
up from all nations in praise to God for
the beautiful life and the glorious reign of
this Oldest queen amid many centuries.
From o'clock of the morning of 1887,
when the archbishop of Canterbury ad-
dressed tho embarrassed and weeping and
almost affrighted girl of IS years with the
startling words, "your majesty" until
this sixtieth anniversary of her enthrone-
ment, the prayer of all good people on all
sides of the seas, whether that prayer be
offered by the 800, 900, 900 of her subjects
or the larger number of millions who are
not her subjects, whether that prayer be
solemnized in church, or rolled from great
orchestras or poured forth by military
bands from forts and battlements and in
front of triumphant armies all around the
world, has been and is now, "God save
the qucen!'' 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
and of praise to God has not yet been prop
erly emphasized, and in many cases the
chief keynote has not been struck at all.
We have been 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'
duals and events for whom and for which
she had no responsibility. We have put
before US tho names of potent and grandly
useful men and women who have lived
during her relgn, but I do not suppose
that she at all helped Thomas Carlyle in
twisting his involved and mighty satires,
or helped Disraeli in issuance of his cpl
grammatic wit, or helped Cardinal New
man in his crossing over from religion tc
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' Is
healthful cartoons, or helped George Grey
in founding a British South African en-
pire, or Eindled the patriotic fervor with
which John Bright stirred the masses, Oh
had anything to do with the invention Of
the telephone or photograph, or the build
ing up of the science of baoteriology, Oh
the directing of the Roentgen rays which
loNC oulS SClyJ VI hSipCA IL
the inventions for facilitating printing
and railroading and ocean voyaging. One
is not to bo credited or discredited for the
virtue or tho vice, the brilliance or the
stupidity, of his or her contemporaries
While Queen Victoria has been the frienG
of all art all literature, all science, all in
vontion, oil reform, her reign will bt
most remembered for all time and al
eternity as the reign of Christianity. Be
ginning with that scene at o'clock il
the morning in Kensington palace, where
she asked the archbishop of Canterbury to
pray for her, and they knelt down, i'm
ploring divine guidance, until this hour
not only in the sublime liturgy of hel
established church, but on all occasions
sho has directly or indirectly declared, 81
believe in God the Father Almighty, max
er of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ
his only bcgotten Son." I declare it
fearless of contradiction, that the might
est champion of Christianity today is the
throne of England.
The queens book, so much criticised al
the time of it's appearance, some saying II
was not skillfully done and some saying
that the private affairs of household ought
not so to have been exposed, was neverthe-
less a book of vast usefulness from the
fact that it showed that God was acknowl-
edged in all her life and that Crock oi
Ages" was not an unusual song in Wind
sor castle. Was her son, the Prince Of
Wales, down with an illness that baffIpd
the greatest doctors of England? Ther
she proclaimed day of prayer to Almighty
God, and in answer to the prayers of the
whole civilized world the prince got we'll
Was Sevastopol to be taken and the thou
sands of bereayed homes of soldiers to be
comforted? She called her nation to its
knees, and the prayer was answered. Set
her walking through the hospitals like al
angel of mercy! Was there ever an explo
sion of fire damp in the mines of Sheffield
or Wales and her telegram was not the
first to arrive with help and Christian
sympathy? Is President Garfield dying al
Long Branch, and is not the cable under
the sea, reaching to Balmoral castle, KEEP
busy in announcing the symptoms of thu
sufferer?
victoria's Throne.
1 believe that no throne since the throne
of David, and the throne of Hezekiah, ant
the throne of Esther has been in such con
slant touch with the throne of heaven q!
the throne of Victoria. From what know
of her habits she reads the Bible more thar
she does Shakespeare. She admires thu
hymns of Horatio Bonar more than sht
does Byron's "Corsair." She has no
knowingly admitted into her presence {
corrupt man or dissolute woman. To very
distinguished novelists and very celebrated
prima donnas she has declined reception
because they were immoral. All the com
ing centuries of time cannot revoke tht
advantages Of having had 80 years of Chris
tian womanhood inthroned in the palaces
of England. Compare her court surround
ings with what were the court surround
ings in the time of Henry VIII, or wha