Connecticut western news., 1897-06-24
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
WCTORiA'S JUBILEE IS THE THEME OF REV. OR. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE.

The Eloquent Preacher Pays a Fine Trib-
 ute to EngIand's Beloved Ruler and En-
 forces the Lesson of Her Lifeline
 Greatest Coronation.
 BEATRICE, Neb., June 20.-This is Dr. Talmage's third annual visit to tho here, one of tho greatest ever assembled on this conti- nent. He lectured yesterday; he preach es today. Text, Esther V, 8, What wilt thou, Queen Esther:"
 This question, which was asked of a queen thousands of years ago, all civi- lized nations are this day asking of Queen Victoria. ..'What wilt thou havo of honor, of reward or reverence or exclamation? What wilt thou, the queen of the nineteenth century," The seven miles of procession through the streets of London day after tomorrow will be small part of the congratulatory process sion whose multitudinous tramp will encircle the earth. The celebrative an thems that will sound up from Vest abbey and St. Paul's cathedral in London will be less than the vibra- tion of one harp string as compared with the doxologies which this hour roll up from all nations in praise to God for the beautiful life and the glorious reign of this oldest queen amid many cen turies. From 5 o'clock of the morning of 1887, when the archbishop of Canter- bury addressed the embarrassed and weeping and almost affrighted girl of IS years with the startling words, "your majesty" until this sixtieth anniversary of her enthronement, the prayer of all good people on all sides of the seas, whether that prayer be offered by the 800, 900, 900 of her subjects or the larger number of millions who are not her sub jects, whether that prayer be solemnized in church or rolled from great orchestras or poured forth by military bands from forts and battlements and in front of triumphant armies al l around the world. has been and is now, 'God save the queen.
 Amid the innumerable 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 congratulation to her and of praise to God has not yet been properly emphasized, and in many cases the chief key note has not been struck at all. We have been told over and over again what has occurred in the Victo- rian era. The mightiest 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 names of potent and grandly useful men and women who have lived during her reign, but do not suppose that she at all helped Thomas Carlyle ill twisting his involved and mighty satires, or helped Disraeli in issuance of his epi- grammatic wit, or helped Cardinal New man 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 Cruik shank'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 bacteriology, or the directing of the Roentgen rays which have revo- lutionized surgery, or helped in the in- ventions for facilitating printing and railroading 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 as the reign of Christianity.
 Beginning with that scene at 5 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 established church, but on all occasions, she has directly or indi- rectly declared, 1T believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven. and earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only be- gotten Son." declare it, fearless of contradiction, that. the mightiest cham pion of Christianity today is the throne of England. The queens book, so much criticised at the time of its appearance, some saying 1t was not skillfully 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 baff1ed the greatest doctors of England? Then sbe proclaimed day of prayer to All mighty God, and in answer to the pray CTS of the whole civilized world the prince got we'll. Was Seyastopol to be taken and the thousands of bereaved homes of soldiers to be comforted, she ralled 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 Rt Long Branch and is not the cable un- ba t<, p,I kept busy in announcing the symptoms of the sufferer?
 The Christian Queen.
 I believe that no throne since the throne of David and the throne of Eeze-
 kiah and the throne of Esther has been
 ill such constant touch with the throne
 of heaven as the throne of Victoria. From what I know of her habits she
 reads the Bible more than she does
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