Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-06-21
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
WCTORIA'S JUBILEE is THE THEME OF
REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE.


forces the Lesson CT Her Life.-The
Greatest Coronation.
BEATRICE, Neb., June 20.-This is
DR. Talmage's third annual visit to the
Chautauqua here, one of the greatest
throngs ever assem- bled on this CONT
nent. He lectured yesterday; he preach
es today. Text, Esther V, 3, 'tWhat wilt
thou, Queen Esther?"
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
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
fhems that will sound up from West
minister abbey and St. Paul's cathedral
in London will be less than the vibra-
ton of one harp string as compared
with the doxologies which this hour roll
mp from all nations in praise to God for
the beautiful life and the glorious reign
of this Oldest queen amid many CEN
turies. From 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
300. 600, 600 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
OF poured forth by military bands from
forts and battlements and in front of
triumphant armies all 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 I do not suppose that she at
all helped Thomas Carlyle in twisting
his involved and mighty satires, or
helped Disraeli in issuance of his cpl
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-
1utionized surgery, or helped in the in
yentions 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, 81 believe in God the
Father Almighty, maker of heaven and
earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only be-
gotten Son. - I 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 it was not skillfully done
and some saying that the private affairs
of a 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
Yastle Was her son, the Prince of
Wales, down with an illness that baff1ed
the greatest doctors of England? Then
she proclaimed day of prayer to AL
mighty God, and in answer to the pray