The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-21


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scandal-mongers i'm all the nations in six
decades have not been able 20 manufac-
ture an evil suspicion in regard TO her
that could be made to stick: Maria Of
ss-4----l an1 -Eleanor and JO-
anna OF Spain, Catharlne of Russia, Mary
of Scotland Maria Teresa Of Germany,
Marie Antoinette Of France and all the
queens of England as Mrs. Strickland
has put them before us in her charming
twelve volumes and while some queen
may surpass our modern queen in learn
ing. and another in attractiVeuess Of fea-
ture, and another in gracefulness Of form,
ana another in romance of history. Vic
torla surpasses them all ia nobility and
grandeur and thoroughness of Christian
character. l bail heri the Christian
daughter, the Christian p fe. the Chris
tan mother the ChTstiaH lueen! and let
the Church Of God and aI benign and
gracious institutions the world over cry
out, as they come with music and ban
nered host ana million-voiced huzza. and
the penedictioIs Of earth and heaven,
"What wilt thou. Queen Esther?
Another thing I call to your attention
in this illustrious woman's career. is that
she is a specimen of high life uncorrupted.
Would she have lived to celebrate the six
ueth anniversary of her coronation and
the seVenty-eighth anniversary of her
birthday had she not been an example of
good principles and good habits? While
there have been bad men and women in
exalted station and humble station who
have carried their vices clear on into the
seventies and eighties and even the nine
ties of their lifetime. such persons are very
"A Frft Of tl., Tot IL L.,
their thirties, and fewer reach the forties.
and they are exceedingly scarce in the fif-
ties Longevity has not been the charac-
teristc of the most Of those who have
reached high places in that or this coun-
try In many cases their wealth leads
them into indulgences, or their honors
make them reckless, or their opportunities
of doing wrong are multiplied into the
overwhelming and it is as true now as
when the Bible first presented 1.-THE
wicked live not out half their days" Lon
gevity is not a positive proof of goodness,
but Ii is prima faeie evidence In that d.
rection. A loose life has killed hundreds
Of eminent Americans. A loose life Is
now killing hundreds of eminent Ameri-
cans and Europeans. The doctors are very
KIND and the certificate given after the
distinguished man of dissipation Is dead
says: Died of congestion of the brain"
although 1t was delirium trem-
ti0t vi lieu OF ClFrlOSlG of
the liver, although 1t was a round of
liberenism, or "Died of heart-failure." al
though it was the vengeance of outraged
law that slew him. Thanks, doctor! for
you are right 10 saving the feelings Of the
bereft household by not being more
specific. Look all We who are in high
places of the earth and see one who has
been piled by all the temptations which
wealth and honor and the secret place of
nAlanHE ay-a M
day she viii ride along in the presence of
seven million people, if they can get
within sight of her chariot in a vigorous
old age. no more hurt by the splendors that
have surrounded her for seventy-eieht
years than is the pain country woman
come down from her mountain home in
an oX-cart TO attend the Saturday market
ing. The temptations of social life among
the successful classes have been so great
that every winter in a holocaust Of human
nerves and the beaches of this tossing sea
OF high life are constantly strewn with
physical and mental and moral shipwreck
Beware! all We successful ones Take a
sood look at the venerable queen as she
rides through Regent street and along the
strand and through Trafalgar square, and
by the Nelson monument. What is the
use of your dying at 40, when YOU NAV inst
as well live to be so? If you are doing
nothing for God or the race. the sooner Won
quit the better; but if you are worth any,
thing for the worlds betterment. in the
strength of God and through good habits
lay out plan for a life that will reach
through most of century. How many
people are practically suicides from the
fact that their gormandizing or their reck-
lessness or their defiance of dietetics and
pam sanitary law cuts short their davsl
indeed, so great is the termination
OF those who have bountiful tables and
tull wine closets, that Solomon suggests
mat Instead of putting the knife into the
meat on their plate they direct the edge
OF It across their throat. Proverbs q: /.
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler.
consider diligently what is before thee.
ana put knife TO thy throat If thou be a
man given to appetite" I believe more
people die of improper eating than die OF
strong drink. The former causes no delir-
ium or violence and works more gradually.
but none the less fatally. Queen Victoria's
habits self-denying and almost ascetic,
under a good Providence. account for her
magnificent longevity. 1t may be a home
~ lesson for seXagesmal anniversary in
British palaces, but IL Is worth all the mill
lions of dollars the celebration viii cost
and the laborious convocatien of the rep
resentatives from all the zones Of the
planet, II the nations will learn the sani-
tary lesson OF good hours. plain food out
common-sense habits. That which Paul
said to the tailer is just as appropriate
for you ana for me-"Do myself no harm ."
And here let me say 10 people outside of
Great Britain ought to be more interested
in this queens jubilee than our nation.
The cradles of most Of our ancestors were
rocked In Great Britain. They played in
childhood on the banks OF the Thames or
the Clyde or the shannon. Take from my
veins the Welsh blood and the Scotch
blood, ana the streams Of my life would be
a shallow. Great Britain is our grand
mother We have read IN the family rec
ords that without our grandmother's
consent. her daughter. our mother, left
home and married the genius OF American
Independence. and for a while there was
bitter estrangcment. but the family quar-
rel has ended and al has boon forgiven.
and we shake hands every day across the
seas AT this qucenly anniversary our
authorized representatives. Will Offer greet
ing IN Buckingham palace. and our war
ships Will thunder congratulation In Eng
lish waters They are over there bone OF
our bone and flesh Of our flesh II IL
our John Bunyan. our Wherefore. our
C0leridre. our DeQuinccy our John Mil
ton. our John Wesley. our John Knox. our
Thomas Chalmers our Bishop Charnock.