The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-06-26

sea, In this anniversary time, and be
hold a woman who for 60 years ha
ruled over the mightiest empire of al
time, and ruled well. In approval o
her government the hands of all ma
lions are clapping, the flags of all ma
tons are waving, the batteries of al
nations are booming. Look herel Me,
have not made such a wonderful sue
cess of government hat they nee(
be afraid that woman should eve
take a turn at power. The fact il
that men have made a bad mess o
it. The most damnably corrup'
thing on earth is American pol
itics after men have had it all theil
own way in this country for 12l years
And now l pray God that day aftel
tomorrow, the uncertain skies of En-
gland, SO economic of sunshine, may
pour golden light upon the scene, ano
that since the day when, in Westmin
ster Abby, the girlish queen took in
one hand the scepter, and in thI
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 siren 9Th,
ened 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
tex sound in her enraptured ears,
''Nhat wilt thou, Queen Esther?"
But as all of us will be denied at
tendance on that Goth anniversary cor
onation, l invite you, not to the ami
versary of a coronation, but to a coro-
nation itself-aye, to two corOnations.
Brought up as we are, we love as no
other form of government that which
is republican and democratic. we, liv-
ing on this side of the sea, cannot SO
easily as those living on the other side
of the sea, appreciate the two corona
ions to which all up and down
the Bible you and l are urgent
ly invited. Some of you have
such morbid ideas of religion that
you think of it as going down into a
dark cellar, or out on a barren COM
mons, or as a fagellation; when, so far
from a dark cellar, it is a palace, and
instead of a barren commons it is a
garden, atoss with the brightest foun-
tains that were ever rainbowed, and
instead of flagellation it is coronation,
but a coronation utterly eclipsing the
one whose Goth anniversary is now be-
ing celebrated. 1t was a great day
when David, the little king who was
large enough to thrash sGoliath, took
the crown at Rabbah-a crown weigh
Ao1o-4 - o~o1l cd 1-og,loI 18th
precious stones and the people
shouted, "Long live the kingl" 1t was
a great day when Petrarch, sur
rounded by IL patrician youths
clothed in scarlet, received from a
senator the laurel crown, and the peo-
pie shouted, Long live the poetT" 1t
was a great day when Mark Antony
put upon Cesar the mightiest tiara of
all the earth, and in honor of Divine
authority Cesar had it placed after
on the head of the statue of Jupi-
ter Olympus. 1t was a great day when
the greatest of Frenchmen took the
diadem of Charlemagne and put it
his own brow. 1t was a great
day when, about an eighth of a mile
from the gate of Jerusalem, under a
sky pallid with thickest darkness, and
on a mountain trammeled of earth
quake, and in The air on fire with the
blasphemies of a mob, a ROY of
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 1 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 he was on earth. Bran
bles for his brow, exp~ectoration for
his cheek, whips for his back, spears
for his side, spikes for his feet, con-
tumely for his name, and even in
time how many say he is no
Christ at all, and there are tens
of thousands of hands trying to push
him back and keep him down.
But, OH the human and satanic
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 summer fan drive pack
the Mediterranean euroclydonP Yes,
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 cave of black
st. John foresaw 1t, and cried,
o His head were many crowns" Now
do not miss the beauty of hat figure.
is no room on any head for more
one crown of silver, gold or dia-
mond. Then what does the book mean
when 1t says, "On His head were many
crowns?" Well, it means twisted and
flowers. To prepare a
crown for your child and make her the
Queen of the May" you might take
the white flowers out of III p~arterre,
and the crimson flowers ont of another
parterre, and the pink flowers out of
another parterre, and gracefully and
work these four or five
crowns into one crown of beauty. So
the s~plendors of earth and Heaven
are to be enwreathed into one coronal
for our Lords forehead-one blazing
glory, one dazzling brightness, one
overpowering perfume, N down
flashing, ~up-rolling, out-spreading
magnifoepce-and SO on His head shall
be many crowns.
The worlds best music will yet be
sounded in His praise, the worlds best
built for His worship, the
worlds best paintings descriptive of
His triumphs, the worlds best sculp-
Ire perpetuate the memory of His
and heroines. Already the
crown woven out of many crowns Is
being put upon His brow. His SCARED
feet are already ascending the throne.
A careful statististician estimates that
in 1850 there will be ia, 000, 900 people
in the United States, and by the pres
ratio of uniting with the church
100, OOO, 900 of them will be church
What think We of that,
we pessimists inspired by the develP
The deadest failure in the uni
10 fhn l;no1on ~ Satan