The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1897-06-25
GOD SAVE THE QUEEN
WcToRlA'S JUBILEE is THE THEME OF
REV. DR.. TALMAGE'S DISCOURSE.

forces the Lesson of 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 assembled ON this CONT
nent. He lectured yesterday; he preach
es today. Text, Esther v, 8, "What wilt
thou, Queen Esther?'
This question, which was asked Of a
queen thousands of years ago, all civil
liked 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 oongratulatory process
sion whose multitudinous tramp will
encircle the earth. The celebrative an
thems that will sound up from West
minister abbey and st. Paul's cathedral
in London will be less than the vibra-
tion 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 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 enforcement, the prayer of all
good people on all sides of the seas,
whether that prayer be offered by the
800, 900, 900 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
or 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 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 kiDdled the
patriotic fervor with which John Bright
stirred the masses, or had anything to
DO with the invention of the telephone
Dr. photograph, or the building up of the
science of bacteriology, or the directing
Of the Roentgen rays which have revo-
surgery, or helped in the in
1entions for facilitating printing and
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
snce, all invention, all reform, her
reign will be most remembered for all
lime and all eternity as the reign of
Christianity. I
Beginning with that scene at {
D clock in the morning in Kensington
palace, where she asked the archbishop 6
If Canterbury to pray for her, and they l
znelt down, imploring divine guidance |
Until this hour, not only in the sublime ]
liturgy of her established church, but on t
Ill occasions, she has directly or indi- |
'ectly declared, ~ believe in God the 6
Father Almighty, maker of heaven and G
earth, and in Jesus Christ, his only be- {
gotten Son.. l declare it, fearless of c
that the mightiest cham '
,ion of Christianity today is the throne {
# England. The queens BOOKS much d
at the time of its appearance, y
ONE saying it was not skillfully done C
md some saying that the private affairs q
f a household ought not so to have /
'een exposed, was nevertheless book
# vast usefulness from the fact that it t
bowed that God was acknowledged in t
ii her life and that Rock of Ages" n
vas not an unusual song in Windsor t.
astle. Was her son, the Prince of a
Wales, down with an illness that bafled h
he greatest doctors of England? Then c
he proclaimed day of prayer to AL v
mighty God, and in answer to the pray +
rs of the whole civilized world the a
rince got we'll. Was Sevastopol to be Il
AIKEN and the thousands of bereaved O.
ONES of soldiers to be comforted, she a
allied her nation to its knees, and the n
rayer was answered. See her walking y
trough the hospitals like an angel of "