The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1897-07-29
A CHRISTIAN EMPRESS.
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Victorian Jubl-
lee Discourse.
The Daily Life of Victoria Her Most Con
spicuous Service tn Humanity
Has Been the Friend OF ALI
that Is Good and Noble.

| Chautauqua. 1t is based on the text:
What wilt thou Queen Esther:-Esther, VS.
| This question, which was asked OF
queen thousands of years ago, all civil
| lied nations are this day asking OF
| Queen Victoria: What wilt thou have
of honor, of reward, or reverence. Or
service, of national and international
reclamation? 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 congratulate
tory procession whose multitudious
tramp will encircle the earth. The
celebrative anthems that will sound up
from Westminster Abbey and st. Pauls
| cathedral in London will be less than
the vibration 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 centuries, From o'clock
of the morning of 1887 when the arch
bishop of Canterbury addressed the
embarrassed and weeping and almost
atfrighted girl of IS years with the
startling words, Your Majesty" until
this sixtieth anniversary of her
enforcement the prayer of all
good people on all sides of
the seas whether that prayer be Of
fered by the 800, 900, 900 Of her subjects
Or the larger number of millions who
are not her subjects, 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 triumph
ant armies all around the world, has
. been and is now God save the queen"'
i Amid the innumerable columns that
, have been printed in eulogy of this
queen at the approaching anniversary
: columns which, put together, would
r be literally miles long seems to me
e that the chief cause of congratulation
;. to her and of praise to God has not yet
been properly emphasized, and in
o | many cases the chief keynote has not
t been struck at all. We have been told
over and over again what has occurred
in the Victorian era. The mighties1
:. thing she has done has been almost
ignored. while she has been honored by
having her name attached to individ
It uals and events for whom and for which
u she had no responsibility. We have
put before us the names Of potent ane
grandly useful men and women who
l., have lived during her reign, but d,
: not suppose that she at all helped
l. Thomas Carlyle in twisting his in
IL volved and mighty satires, or helpe,
S Dsraeli in issuance of his epigram
C matte wit, or helped Cardinal Newman
:. in his crossing over from religion to re
T. ligion, or helped to inspire the en-
b, chanted sentiments of George Elio
p. and Harriet Martineau and Mrs. Brown
ing, Or helped to invent any of Georg
Crulkshank's henlthful cartoons, 0
q he'll ped George Grey in founding
British South African empire. or kin
r. died the patriotic fcrvor with whicl
y, John Bright stirred the masses, or ha
- anything to do with the invention q
"a the telephone or phonograph or tn
- building up of the science Of bacterio
d ogy, or the directing of the Roentge
% rays which have revolutionized su,
- gerry, or helped in the inventions fo
facilitating printing and railroadin
and ocean vOyaging. One is not to b
credited or discredited for the virtue c
the vice, the brilliance or the stupid
n ~, of his or her contemporaries.
q While Queen Victoria has been tn
In friend of all art, all literature, all sc
III ence, all invention, all reform, he
II rel gn will be most remembered for a
time and all eternity as the reign
Christianity. Beginning with thu
scene at five o'clock in the moaning,
kensington palace, where she asl1e
the archbishop of Canterbury to pra
for her, and they knelt down, implo
ing Divine guidance, until this hou
not only in the sublime liturgy of he
established church, but on all occ
sions, she has directly or indirectly d
clared: Il believe in God the FAITH
Almighty, maker of Heaven and cart
and in Jesus Christ His only begotte
Son" | declare it, fearless of any co
70 traaiction, that the mghtiest char
m pion Of Christianity to-day is tt
~ throne of England. The queens boo
so much criticised at the time of i
"a appearance, some saying it was n
skillfully done, and some sayir
!. that the private affairs of
% household ought not SO to ha
81 been exposed, was nevertheless
of book of vast usefulness from the ia
a eI that it showed that God was acknov
ave edged in all her life and that "Rock
Ages" was not an unusual song
20. Windsor Castle. Was her son, t
prince of Wales, down with an illne
- that batfled the greatest doctors of Z
Il gland? Then she proclaimed day
prayer to Almighty God, and in 6
/ swer to the prayers Of the whole civ
lied world the prince got we'll. W
1 Sebastopol to be taken and the tho
III sands of bereaved homes of soldiers
be comforted, she called her nation
its knees, and the prayer was answere
p See her walking through the hospits
80 like an angel of mercy. Was the
nd. ever an explosion of fire damp in Il
-. mines of Sheffield Or Wales and h
Ses telegram was not the first to ARR
with help and Christian svmpathy9
, President Garfield diving at Lo,