Connecticut western news., 1897-06-24

has ruled over the mightiest empire of all time and ruled well. In approval of her government the hands of all nations are clapping, the flags of all nations waving, the batteries of all nations booming. Look here! Men have not made such a wonderful success of gov ernment that they need be afraid that women should ever take a turn.at 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 it all their own way in this country for l2l years. Other things being equal-for there are fools among women as well as among men-I. 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 ill God and knows better how to make self sacrifices and would more boldly act against intem- perance and the social evil, and worse things might come to this country than a supreme courtroom and a senate cham Der and house of representatives in which womanly voices were sometimes heard. We men had better drop some of lDe strut Out Ol OuT puulpOua Salt fiihA with a little less of superciliousness thrust the thumbs into the sleeves of our vests and be less apprehensive of the other sex, who seem to be tho Lords favorites from the fact that he has made more of them. If woman had possessed an influential and controlling vote on Capitol hill at Washington and in the English parliament, do you think that the two ruffian and murderous nations of the earth could have gone on until this time with the butGheries in Ar menia and Cuba? No The Christian nations would have gone forth with bread and medicine and bandages and military relief until Abdul Hamid would have bad no throne to sit on, and Weyler the commanding assassin ill Cuba, would have been thrust into prison as dark as that in which they murdered Dr. Ruiz. I am no advocate for female suffrage, and do not know whether it would be best to have 1t, but point you to the queen of Great Britain and the nation over which she rules as proof that woman may be politically dominant and prosperity reign. God save the queen, whether now on the throne in Buckingham palace or in some time to come ill American White House..
 And now I pray God that day after tomorrow the uncertain skies of Eng land, so economic of sunshine, may pour golden light upon all the scene, and that since the day when sin Westmin- ster abbey the girlish queen took ill 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 vii sions 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 enraptured ears, What wilt thou, Queen Esther?'
 Another Coronation.
 Bnt as all of us will be denied attend ance on that sixtieth anniversary coro- natitn I invite you not to the anniver- sary of coronation, but to corona tion itself--aye, to two coronations. Brought up as we are, to love as no oth- CT form of government that which is republican and democratic, we, living on this side of the sea, cannot so easily as those living on the other side of the sea appreciate the two coronations to which all up and down the Bible you and I are urgently invited. Some of you have such mtnbid ideas of religion that you think of it as going down into a dark cellar, or out on a barren com- mon, or as f1agellation, when, so far from a dark cellar, it is palace, and instead of a barren common it is a | garden, atoss with the brightest foun- | tains that were ever rainbowed, and instead of fagellation it is coronation, but coronation utterly ecffpsing the one whose sixtieth anniversary is now being celebrated. It was a great day when David, the little king who was | large enough to thrash Goliath, took I the crown at Rabbah-a crown weigh | ing a talent of gold and encircled with | precious stones-and the people shout | ed, ''Long live the kingn It was a ] great day when Petrarch, surrounded | by 12 patrician youths clothed in scar let, received from a senator the laurel crown, and the people shouted, Long | live the poetp'
 It was great day when Mark An
 tony put upon Caesar the mightiest tiara of all the earth, and in honor of divine authority Caesar had it placed after ward on the head of the statue of Jupiter Olympus. It was great day which the | greatest of Frenchmen took the diadem 1 of Charlemagne and put 1t on his own
 brow. It was great day when, about l an eighth of mile from the gate of Je- rusalem, under sky pallid with thick est darkness and on mountain tram
 meled of earthquake, and the air on
 fire with the blasphemies of mob, a
 crown of spikes was put upon the pal
 lid and agonized brow of our Jesus But that particular coronation, amid
 tears and blood and groans and shiver-
 ing cataclysms. made your OWL corona
 tion possible. Paul was not man to
 lose his equilibrium, but when that old
 missionary, with crooked back and in-
 famed eyes, got glimpse of the crown
 coming to him, and coming to you, if
 you will by repentance and faith accept
 it, he went into ecstasies, and his poor
 eyes flashed and his crooked back
 strengthened as he cried to Timothy,
 "There is laid up for me a crown of
 righteousness" and to the Corinthians,
 "These athletes run to obtain cor
 ruptible, we an incorruptible, crown. 7"
 And to the Thessalonians he speaks of
 ''the crown of glory, and to the Philip
 plans he says, My joy and crown |"
 The apostle Peter catches the inspira-
 tion and cries out, "Ye shall receive a
 crown of glory that fadeth not away, !" | and St .Inhn inins in the rartnre and