The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-07-01

have gone on until this time with the
butcheries in Armenia and Cula? No
The Christian nations would have gone
forth with bread and medicine. and
bandages and military relief. until the
Turks have mad 40 throne to SIT
on, and Weyler, the commanding
assassin in Cuba would have
been thrust into a prison no
dark rs that in which they murdered
DIR. Ruiz. | am no advocate for female
suffrage, and | do not know whether i,
would be best TO have it; but | point
you to the queen of Great Britain and
the nation over which she rules al
proof that oma may be pc
litically dominant and prosperity
reign. God save the queen, whether
now, on the throne in Bucking'
ham palace.
And now pray God that day afte,
tomorrow, the uncertain skies Of En-
gland. SO economic of sunshine, may
pour golden light upon all the scene,
and that since the day when, in West,
minister abbey, the girlish queen took
in n hand the scepter, and in the
other the orb of empire, there may have
been no day so happy AS that one IN
which she shall this week receive
the plaudits of Christendom. May
she be strengthened in her aged body
to ride the whirlwind of international
excitement, and her failing vision be
illumined with bright memories of tho
past and brighter visions of the future.
and when she quits the throne of earth
may she have "A throne in Heaven, and
as the doors of the eternal palace are
swung open, may the question Of the
text sound in her euraptured ears:
What wilt thou, Queen Esther"
But as all of us viii be denied at
tendance on that sixtieth anniversary
coronation, | invite you, not to the an.
niversary of II coronation, but to a
coronation itself-aYe, To two corona
tions. brought up as we are, we love
as 40 other form of government that
which is republican and democratic,
we, living on this side of the sea, can
not so easily DIS those living on the 9TH
or side of the sea, appreciate the two
coronations TO which all up and
down the Bible you and |
are urgently invited. Some of
you have such morbid ideas of
religion that you think of it rs going
down into a dark cellar, or out on a
Il tst-.4Il J,,IIt ,tiNuG n. &c N Hntp,1t tiatN
when, so far from a dark cellar, it is a
palace, and instead of a barren COM
mons it is Il garden, atoss with the
brightest fountains that were ever
rainbowed, and instead of tlagellation
it is coronation. but a coronation ut
terly eclipstng the one whose sixtieth
anniversary is now being celebrated.
1t was Il great day when David,
the little king, who was large
enough to thrash Goliath, took the
crown ut R~abbah-a crown weigh
ing IA talent of gold and encircled with
precious stoncs-and the people shout
ed: Long live the king" 1t was a
great day when petrarch, surrounded
W - pNNi ~ , NuiIlo' 'A''hllt' III eNol >
let, received from Il senator the laurel
crown, and the people shouted: Long
live the poet" 1t was a great day
when Mark Antony put upon Caesar
the mightiest tiara Of all the earth,
and in honor of Divine authority Cesar
had it placed afterward on the
head of the statue of Jupiter
Olympus. 1t was a great day
when the greatest of F%renchmen
took the diadem of Charlcmange and
put it on his own brow. IT was a great
day when, about IN eighth of a mile
from the gate of Jerusalem, under 3
sky palIid with thickest darkness, and
on a mountain tramineled Of earth
quake, and the air on fire with the
blasphemies Of a mob, n crown of
spikes was put upon the pallid and
agonized brow of our Jesus. But that
particular coronation, amid tears and
blood and groans and shivering cata-
clysms, made your own coronation pos
sible.
But | invite you not only to your
own coronation, but to a mightier and
the mightiest. In all the ages of time
no one ever had such a hard time as
Christ while Ee was on earth. Bran.
bles for His brow, expec toration for
His cheek. whips for His back, spears
for His side, spikes for His feet. con
tumely for His name, and even in
our time, how many say He i.
no Christ at all, and there are
tens of thousands of hands try
ing to push Him back and keep
Him down. But oh! the human and sa-
tanic impotency. Can a spider stop an
albatross? Can the hole which the toy
shovel of a child digs in the sand at
Cape May swallow the Atlantic? Can
the breath of a sumner fan drive back
the Mediterranean euroclydon? Yes,
when all the combined forces Of earth
and hell can keep Christ from ascend.
ing the throne Of universal dominion.
David the PSalmist foresaw that coro-
nation, and cried out in regard to
the Messiah: Upon Himself shall
His crown flourish" From the ave Of
black basalt st. John forcsaw il, and
cried: ION his heal were many
crowns" Now do not miss the beauty
of that figure. There is no room on
any head fo- more than one crown of
silver, gold or diamond. Then what
does the book mean when it says: ''On
His head were many crowns?' Well,
it means twisted and enwreathed
flowers. To prepare a crown for your
child and make her the Queen of the
May vol might take the
white flowers out Of one parterre, and
the crimson flowers out Of another
parterre, ard the pink flowers out of
another p%artcrre. and gracefully and
skillfully work these four or five
crowns into one crown of beauty. So
all the splei,dors of earth and Heaven
are to be enwreathed into one coronal
for our Lords forehead-one blazing
glory. one dazzling brightness, one
nvarnn,y.rinp nprfump one dawn