The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-21

ruled well. In approval of her govern
ment. the hands Of all nations are clap
ping the flags of all nations waving, the
batteries of all nations booming Look
here, Men have not made such a won
derful success of government that they
need be afraid that women should ever
take a turn al power. The fact is that
men have made bad mess of it. The
most damnably corrupt thing on earth is
American politics after men have had 1t
all their own way in this country for one
hundred ard twenty-one years. Other
things being equal, for there are fools
among women as well as among men-1
say other things being equal, woman has
generally a keener sense of what is right
and what is wrong than has man-has
naturally more faith in God, and knows
better how 60 make self-sacrihces, and
would more boldly act against intemper-
ance and the social evil. and worse things
might come to this country than a su-
prene court room and a Senate chamber
and a House Of Representatives in which
womanly voices were sor1e times heard.
We men had better drop some of the strut
out of our pOmp0us CART and with Il little
less of superciiiousness thrust the thumbs
into the sleeves OF our vests, and be less
apprehensive OF the other sex, who seem
TO be the Lords favorites from the fact
that he has made more OF them. II wo-
man had possessed an influential and con
trolling vote on Capitol Hin at Washing
ton and in the English parliament, do you
think that the two rufIian and murderous
nations of the earth could have gone on
untll this time with the butcheries in Ar
menia and Cuba? No The Christian ma
lions would have gone forth with bread
and medicine and bandages and military
relief. until Abdul Hamid would have had
no throne to sit on, and Weyler, the COM
~,..v Fv4r ~.s,, ir. (t,,A hax
been thrust into a prison as dark as that
in which they murdered DR.. Ruiz. l am
no adVoca re for female suffrage and do
not know whether it would be best to have
Il; but point you to the Queen of Great
Britain and the nation over which she
rules az proof that woman may be politi-
cally dominant and prosperity reign. God
save the Queen whether now, on the
throne in Buckingham palace, or in some
time to come, in American white house.
And now / pray God that day after to-
morrow, the uncertain skies of Englandg
so economic of sunshine, may pour golden
light upon all the scene, and that since
the day when, in Westminster Abbey, the
girlish queen took in one 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 the 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 enTap-
tured ears, What wilt thou, Queen
Esther?"
But as all of us will be denied attendance
on that siXtieth anniversary coronation,
! invite you, not to the anniversary of
coronation, but to a coronation itself
aye, TO two coronations. Brought up as we
are. to love as no other form of govern
ment that which is republican and demo-
cratic, we. living on this side of the sea,
cannot so easily as those living on the
other side Of the sea, appreciate the two
coroRations 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 il as going down into a
dark cellar, or out on a barren commons,
or as a flagellation; when, so far from a
dark cellar; 1t is palace land instead of a
barren commons 1t Is a garden,
atoss with the brightest fountains that
were ever rainbowed, and instead of flag
citation it is coronation but a coronation
utterly eclipsing the one whose sixtieth
anniversary is now being celebrated. II
was d great udy Wiltu 1JdNlug LDG LLlle
king who was large enough to thrash Co
Hath, took the crown at Rabbah-a crown
weighing a talent of gold and encircled
with precious stones-and the people
shouted Long live the king! 1t was a
great day when Petrarch, surrounded by
twelve patrician youths clothed in scarlet
received from a senator the laurel crown,
and the people shouted, Long live the
poet!' 1t was a great day when Mark
ANTONY Caesar the U1iphfiacf
tiara OF all the earth, and in honor of di-
vine authority Caesar had Il placed after
ward on the head of the statue of Jupiter
Olympus. 1t was a great day when the
greatest Of Frenchmen took the diadem
of Charlemagne and put it on his own
brow. 1t was a great day when, about an
eighth of mile from the gate of Jerusa-
lem. under sky pallid with thickest dark
ness, and on a mountain trammeled of
earthquake and the air on fire with the
blasphemies OF mob, a crown Of spikes
was put upon the paliid and agonized brow
of our Jesus. But that particular corona
ton, amid tears and blood and groans and
shivering cataclysms made your own cor
onation possible. Paul was not a man to
lose his equilibrium, but when that old
missionary, with crooked back and infiam-
ed eyes, got glimpse OF the crown coming
TO him, and coming to you, II you will by
repentance and faith accept it, he
went into ectasies, and his poor eyes
flashed and his crooked back straighten-
ed as he cried to Timothy There is laid
up for me a crown OF righteousness" and
to the Corinthians, These athletes run
to obtain a corruptible, we an incorrupti-
BILE crown" And to the Thessalonians
he speaks OF the crown OF glory" and
to the Philippians he says, my joy and
crown" The Apostle Peter catches the
inspiration and cries out, "Ye shall receive
crown OF glory that fadeth not away, 3"
and ST. John joins in the rapture and says.
Faithful to death, and will give thee a
crown Of life" and elsewhere exclaims,
Hold fast, that no man take thy crown"
Crownsl crowns! crowns! you aid not ex-
pect, in coming here to-day. to be invited
to a coronation. You can scarcely believe
your own ears; but In the name of par
doning God and sacrificing Christ, and
aA omnipotent Holy Spirit and trium-
plant heaven ! offer each one a crown
for the asking. Crowns! Crowns! How TO
get the crown? The way Victoria got her
crown. on her knees. Although eight
duchesses and marquises, all In cloth OF
silver. carried her train, and the windows
ard arches and roof OF the abbey shook
with the te deum OF the organ In full
dianason she had 10 lxneai she had 70