Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-06-30
CHRISTIAN QUEEN.
Dr.. ISimage Gives Praise to the Sow
ereign of England.
"What Wilt Thou Have of Honor or Re-
ward An Example OF Good Prin-
eipie- and Good Habits. and Upon
Whose Public aud Private Life
No Suspicion of Eyn Ever
Rested.

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Esther v, ,: ''Nha wilt thou. Queen
Esther?''
This question, which was asked of a
queen thousands OF years ago. all civ
ilized nations are this day asking of
Queen Victoria, What wilt thou have
OF honor, OF reward, of reverence. or
service. or national and international
acclamation? What wilt thou. the
queen OF the 10Th century, The seven
miles Of recession through the streets
of LondSn Tuesday will be a small
part of the congratulatory procession
whose multitudinouS tramp will
encircle the earth. The celebrative
anthems that will sound up from
Westminster Abbey and ST PauTs
cathedral in London will be less than
the vibration OF one harp-string rs
compared with the doxologies which
this hour roll up from all nations in
praise 10 God for the beautiful life and
the glorious reign OF this Oldest queen
amid many centuries From o clock
OF the morning OF 1897. when the
archbishop OF Canterbury addressed
the embarrassed and weeping and al
most affrighted girl of IS
years with the startling
words, your majesty" until
this siXtieth anniversary OF her en-
thronemcnt, the prayer of all good
people on all sides OF the seas, wheth-
er that prayer be offered by 300, 600. 600
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 orches-
tras, or poured forth by military
bands from forts and battlements and
IN of D, a I
around the world. has been and is
now, God Save the Queen"
Amid the innumcrable columns 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 cougratu-
lation TO her and of praise TO God
has not yet been properly emphasized,
and in many eases 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 honored 10y having her name
attached to individuals and events for
whom and for which she has no re-
sponsibility. We have put before US
the names of potent and grandly use
full men and women who have lived
during her reign, but do not suppose
that she at all helped Thomas Carlyle
in twisting his involved and mighty
satires, or helped Disraeli in issuance
of his epigrammatic wit, or helped
Cardinal Newman in his crossing over
from religion to religion, or helped to
inspire the enchanted sentiments of
George Eliot and Harriet Martineau
H.
vent any of George Cruikshank's
hcalthful cartoons, or helped
George Grey in founding 4 Brit
ish South African empire or
kindled the patriotic fervor with
which John Bright stirred the masses,
or had anything TO do with the iuven-
ton Of the telephone or photograph
or the building up Of the science of
bacteriology, or the directing OF the
Roentgeu rays which have revolution.
lied surgery, or helped in the inven-
tions for facilitating printing and rail
reading and ocean voyaging. One is
not TO be credited or discrcdited for
the virtue or the vice, the br;lliance
or the stupidity of his or her con-
tcmporaries. While Queen Victoria has
been the friend of all art. all litera-
turc, all science all invention, all re-
form, her reign will be most remem-
bered for all time and all eternity as
the reign of Christianity Beginning
with that scene at 3 o'clock in the
morning, at kensington palace. where
she asked the archbishop OF Canter-
bury TO pray for her, and they knelt
down. imPloring Divine guidance, un-
TIL this hour, not only in the sublime
Liturgy OF her established church, but
on all occasions, she has directly or
indirectly declared: II believe in God
the Father Almighty. Maker of Heav-
en- and earth, and in Jesus Christ. His
only begotten SON declare it, fear
less OF contradiction, that the might
lest champion of Christianity to-day is
the throne of England
The queens book 50 much criticised
at the time of its appearance, some
saying it was not slillfullv done, and
some saying that the private affairs OF
household ought not 20 have been
exposed, was nevertheless "A book Of
vast usefulness from the fact that 10
showed that God was acknowledged i'm
all her life and that Rock OF Ares"
was not an unusual song in Windsor
Castle. Was her SON. the prince OF
Wales, down with an illness that uaf-
fed the greatest doctors Of England?
Then she proclaimed day Of prayer 90
Almighty God, and i'm answer 90 the
prayers Of the whole civilized world
the prince got well. Was Sebastopol
20 be taken and the thousands OF be-
rcaved homes Of soldiers TO be com
forted, she called her nation to its
knees and the prayer was answered.
See her walking through the hospital
like au angel OF mercy! Was there
ever an explosion OF fire damp i'm the
mines OF Sheffield OF Wales and her
telegram was not the first % arrive
with help and Christian sympathy? Is
President Garfield dying at Long
Branch and is not the cable under
the sea, reaching 90 Balmoral castle.
kept busy in announcing the symptoms
Of the sufferer
believe that no throne since the
throne OF David and the throne OF
Hczekiah and the throne OF Esther
has been in such constant 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 admircs
the Hymns OF uoratio Bonar more