Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-06-26
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
.VCToRlA's JUBILEE is THE THEME OF
REV. DIR. 5TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE.

The Eloquent Preacher Pays Fine TrIb-
ute to EnglnnG's Beloved Ruler and En-
forces the Lesson OF Her Life-The
Greatest Coronation.
BEATRICE, Ncb., June 20.-This is
Dr.. Tolmage's third annual visit to the
Chautauqua here, one Of tho greatest
throngs ever assembled OH this CONT
ncnt. He lcctured yesterday; he preach
cs today. Text, Estherv, 3, "What wilt
thou, Queen Esther"
This question, which was asked of a
queen thousands of years ago, all civil
LIKED nations are this day asking Of
Queen Victoria. "What wilt thou have
Of honor, of reward or reverence or
service, of national and international
accramation? What wilt thou, the queen
of the nineteenth century, The seven
miles of procession through the streets
of London day after tomorrow will be a
small part of the congratulatory process
sion whose multitudinous tramp will
encirclc the earth. The celebrative an
thems that will sound up from West
minister abbey and st. Paul's cathedral
in London will be less than the yibra-
ton of ore harp string as compared
with the doxologies which this hour loll
up from all nations in praise to God for
the beautiful life and the glorious reign
of this oldest queen amid many cen
turtles. From O'Clock Of the morning
of j S37, when the archbishop of Canter-
bury addressed the embarrassed and
wccping and almost affrighted girl of Is
years with the startling words, your
majesty, until this sixticth anniversary
of her cnthronement, the prayer Of all
good people on all sides of the seas,
whether that prayer be offered by the
800, 600, 600 Of her subjects or the l"rger
number of millions who are not her sub
jccts, whether that prayer be solemniZed
in church CT rolled from great orchcstras
or poured forth by military bands from
forts and battlements aid i'll front OF
triumphant armies all around the world,
has been and is now, "God save the
queen. y
Amid tho innumerable columns that
have been printed i'll eulcgy of this
queen at thoapproaching anniversary
columns which. put together, would be
literally miles long-it seems TO me that
the chief cause of congratulatlon to her
and CT praise to God has not yet been
properly emphasized, and III many cases
the chief key ncte has not been struck
at all. We Lave been told over and over
again what has occurred in the Victo-
rian era. The n.ightiest thing she has
done has been almost ignored, while
she has been honored by having her
name attached to individuals and events
for whom and for which she had no re-
sponsibility. We have put before us the
nal aes Of potent and grandly useful men
nne. women who have lived during her
reign, but I do not suppose that she at
all helped Thomas Carlyle i'll twisting
his invuived and mighty satires, or
helped Disraeli in issuance OF his cpl
grammatic wit, or helped Cardinal New
man in his crossing over from religion
to religion, or helped to inspire the ell
chanted sentiments of George Eliot and
Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Browning,
or helped to invent any of George Cruik-
shank's healthful cartoons, or helped
George Grey in founding British
South African empire, or kindled the
patriotic fervor with which John Bright
slirrdGz masses, OF had anything to
do with the invention of the telephone
or photograph, or the building up of the
science of bacteriology, or the directing
Of the Roentgen rays which have revo-
lutionized surgery, or helped in the in
ventions for facilitating printing and
railioading and ocean voyaging. One is
not to be credited or discredited for the
virtue or the vice, the brilliance or the
stupidity of his or her contemporaries.
While Queen Victoria has been the
friend of all art, all literature, all sci
ence, all invention, all reform, her
reign will be most remembered for all
time and all eternity us the reign of
Christianity.
Beginning with that scene at o
O clock in tie morning i'll kensington
palace, where she asked the archbishop
Of Canterbury 10 pray for her, and they
knelt down, imploring divine guidance
until this hour, not only i'll the sublime
liturgy of her established church, but Oh
all occasions, she has directly Or indi-
rectly declared, II believe in God the
Father Almighty, maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only be-
gotten Sen. 4" 1 declare it, fearless of
contradiction, that Tie mightiest cham
pion of Christianity today is the throne
of England The queens book, SO much
criticised at the time CT its appearance,
some saying it was net skillfully done
ard scme saying that The private affairs
of IL household ought not so to have
been exposed, was nevertheless hook
of vast usefulness from the fact that it
showed that Gcd was acknowledged III
all her life ard that "Rcck of Ages"
! was not ali unusual song i'll Windsor
castle. Was her son, the Prince OF
Wales, down with an illness that ba1fled
the greatest doctors of England? Then
she proclaimed day of prayer to Al
mighty God, and i'll answer to the pray
ers of the whole civilized world the
prince got we'll Was Sevastopol to be
taken and the thousands of Eereaved
homes of soldiers TO be comfortcd, she
called her nation to its knees, and the
prayer was answered. See her walking
through the hospitals like an angel of
mercy. Was there ever an explosion 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
at Lohg Branch ard is not the cable un-
der the sea reaching to Balmoral castle
kept busy i'll announcing the symptoms
of the sufferer?
The Christian Queen.
1 believe that no throne since the
throne of David and the throne of Heze-
kiah and the throne of Esther has been
in such constant touch with the throne
of heaven as the throne of Victoria.