The Progress., 1897-06-26
THE PROGRESS.

MS only Dcgotten son." declare IT,
fearless Of contradiction, that the might
est champion of Christianity today is the
throne of England.
The queens book, so much criticised at
the time of its appearance. some saying IL
was not skillfully done and some saying
that the private affairs of u household ought
not so to have been exposed, was neverthe-
less n book Of vast usefulness from the
fact that it showed that God was acknowl-
edged In all her life and that Rock of
ACES was not unusual song IN Wind
sor castle. Was her son, the Prince OF
Wales, down with an illness that ba1llcd
tho greatest doctors of England! linen
she p1 oclaimed a day of prayer to Almighty
God, and in answer to the prayers OF the
whole civilized world the prince got well.
Was Sevastopol to be taken and the thou
sands of be.ea we'd homes of soldiers to J.
comforted? She called her nation to
knees, and the prayer was answered.
her walking through the hospitals like
angel of mercy! Was there ever an OK,
sion of fire damp in the mines OF she1h.-
or Wales and her telegram was not the
first to arrive with help and Christian
syr,pathyP Is President Garfield dying at
Long Branch, and is not the cable under
the sea. reaching to Balmoral castle, kept
busy in announcing the symptoms OF the
sufferer?
victoria's Throne.
I believe that no throne since the Throne
of David and the throne of Hezekiah, and
the throne of Esther has been in such con-
slant touch with the throne o. heaven as
tho throne of Victoria. From what know
of her habits she reads the Bible more than
she does Shakespeare. She admires the
hymns of Horatio Bonar more than she
does Byron's "Corsair." She has not
knowingly admitted into her presence
corrupt man or dissolute woman. 10 very
DISTINGUISHED novelists and very celebrated
prilna donnas she has declined reception
because they were immoral. All tho COM
Ing centuries of time cannot revoke the
advantages of having had 80 years of Chris
tan wolnanhood inthrOned In the palaces
Of England. Compare her court surround
ings with what were the court SURROUND
ip0s In the time of Henry VIII, or what
were the court surroundings in the time
| Of Napoleon, in the time Of Louis XVI,
| In the times of men and women whose
| names may not be mentioned In decent
| society. Alas for the revelries, and the
worse than Belshazzar feasts, and the
| more than Herodian dances, and the scenes
from which the veil must not be lifted
You need, however, in order to apprecA.
| ate the purity and virtuous splendor OF
| Victoria's reign to contrast 1t somewhat
(! with the gehennas and the pnndemoniums
Of many of tho throncrooms,o OF the past
| and some Of thu Shronerooms of the pres
emit. call the roll Of the queens OF the
earth, not that would have them come
up or come back, but that may make
them the background of n picture In which
/ can better present the present septuagena
| rian, so soon to be an octogenarian, now
on the throns of England, her example &C
thoroughly OIL the right side that all the
scandal mongers In all the nations in si1
decades have not been able to manufac
ture an evil suspicion in regard to hel
that could be made to stick: Maria q
Portugal, Isabella and Eleanor and Joan
ma of Spain, Catherine Of Russia, Mary O
Scotland, Maria Theresa of Germany, Marie
| Antoinette of France and all the queeni
Of England, as Miss Strickland has put
them before us In her charming IL vol
umes. And while some queen may surPas
our modern queen in learning, and another