The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1897-06-25


IN q have Of honor, OF
GZIKSeJO reward, or rever-
NYIW ence. or service, of
national and inter-
national acclamation? What VIII thou,
the Queen of the nineteenth century
The seven miles of procession throush
the streets of London day after toino'-
row will be a small part OF the coh-
gratulatory procession whose multi
tudinous tramp will encircle the eai'n;
The celebrative anthems that VIII
sound up from Westminster Appey an'
St. Paul's Cathedral IN LONDON VIII NC
less than the vibration OF one hai
string as compared with the doxologies
which this hour roll up from all ma
tions in praise to God for the peauti-
full life and the glorious reign Oh this
oldest Queen amid many centuries.
From five o'clock in the morning Vi
1897 when the Archbishop OF Canler-
bury addressed the embarrassed anu
weeping and almost affrighted girl OF
eighteen years with the startling
words, "Your Majesty" until thls SIX
tieth anniversary OF her enforcement,
the PRAYER of all good people on all
sides of the seas, whether that prayer
be offered by the three hundred NIL
lions of her subjects or the larger mum
Der of millions who are not her SUI
jects. whether that prayer De solein-
nized in church, or rolled from great
orchestras. or poured forth by military
hands from forts and battlements ana
in front of triumphant armies all
around the world, has been and Is now
God save the Queen!" Amid lhe IN
Vulnerable columns that have peeh
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
properly 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 honorcd
by having her name attached to indi-
viduals and events for whom and for
which she had no responsibility. We
have put before us the names of potent
and grandly useful men and women
who have lived during her reign, but
I do not suppose that she at all helped
Thomas Carlyle in twisting his in
volved and mighty satires, or helped
Disraeli in issuance of his epigram-
matte wit, or helped Cardinal Newman
in his crossing over from religion to
religion, or helped to inspire the en-
chanted sentiments of George Eliot and
Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Browning
or helped to invent any OF George
Cruikshank's healthful cartoons, or
helped George Grey in founding a
British South African Empire, or
kindled the patriotic fervor with which
John Bright stirred the masses, or had
anything to do with the invention of
the telephone or photograph, or the
building up of the science of bacteriol-
ogy, or the directing of the Roentgen
rays which have revolutionized sur
gerry or helped in the inventions for
facilitating printing and railroadlng
and ocean voyaging. One is not to be
credited or discredited for the virtue
or the vice, the brilliance or the stu
pidity, of his or her contemporaries.
While Queen Victoria has been the
friend of all art, all literature, all
science, all invention, all reform, her
reign will be most remembered for all
time and all eternity as the reign of
Christianity. Beginning with that
scene at five o'clock in the morning, in
Kensington Palace, where she asked
the Archbishop Of Canterbury to pray
for her, and they knelt down, imploring
Divine guidance, until this hour not
only in the sublime Liturgy of her Es-
tablshed church but on all occasions,
she has directly or indirectly declared,
81 believe in God the Father Almighty,
Maker Of heaven and earth, and in
Jesus Christ, his only begotten Son."
I declare it, fearless of contradiction,
that the mightiest champion of Chris
tianity today is the throne of England.
The Queens book, so much criticised
at the time Of it's appearance, some
saying 1t was not skilfully done, and
some saying that the private affairs OF
household ought.not so to have been
exposed, was nevertheless book Of
vast usefulness from the fact that it
showed that God was acknowledged in
all her life and that Rock of Ages"
was not an unusual song In Windsor
Castle. Was her son, the Prince of
Wales, down with an illness that baf-
fed the greatest doctors Of England?