The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-06-24
Or IlLMl@s SUNDAY Sermon
A GOSPEL MESSAGE.


Queen victorIa's Jubilee Was the Subject
ofthe Ministcr's Discourse. and 1t Was
Delivered Before the Chautauqua at
Beatrice, Neb.-An Eloquent Tribute.
TEXT: ''what wilt thou. Queen Esther?v
esther v, 3.
This question which was asked Of queen
thousands OF years ago, all civilized ma
tions are this day asking Of Queen Victoria.
what wilt thou have Of honor, OF reward
or reverence or service, OF national and in
ternational acclamation? What wilt thou.
the queen Of the nineteenth century,"
The seven miles OF procession through the
streets OF London will be small part OF
the congratulatory procession whose null
tltudinous 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 doNologies 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
6o'cloek OF the morning OF 1887. when the
Archbishop OF Canterbury addressed the
embarrassed and weeping and almost af-
frighted girl OF eighteen years with the
startling words, "your majesty" until this
sixteth anniversary OF her enthronement,
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
lects, 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 culogy OF this queen at the
approaching anniversary-column which,
put together, would be literally miles long
1T seems to me that the chief cause of con-
graduation to her and OF praise OF 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 sne has done
has been almost ignored, while she has
been honored by having her name attached
10 individuals ana events Tor whom and for
which she had no responsibility. We have
put petore us the names OF potent and
grandiy useful men and woman who have
iiVeu during her reign, but do not suppose
that she az all helped Thomas Carlyle in
TWISTING ms Involved and mighty satires,
or helped Disraeli in issuance of his epi-
grammatic wit, or helped Cardinal New
man IN MS crossing over from religion
10 reiigion, or helped to inspire the en-
Ghahted sentiments OF George Eliot and
hatriet Martiheau and Mrs. Browning.
or helped to invent any OF George Cruik-
shunk heathiu' cartoons. or helped
george Grey in founding British South
African empire, or kindled the patriotic
lervor with which John Bright stirred the
masses or hau anything to do with the
Invention OF the telephone or photograph,
OF tne building up OF the science of bac
terloloSy, or the directing OF the Roentgen
rays which nave revolutionized surgery, or
neipeu III the inventions for facilitating
printing ana railroading and ocean voyag-
ing. oneis not to be credited or diseredited
!t !or tne virtue or the wee, the brilliance or
,ne ,,it ,stuPiuity Oh ms or her contemporaries.
% "%hi,' queen ,ictoria mas Deen the friend
vi IN art, all literature, ail science, all in
sen.ioh, ali REFORM ner reign VIII be most
.siheliloereu ior a,i tine ana all eternity as
'hn reign Oh Christiahlty.
Deglhhihg with that scene at o'clock in
.ne morning IN hehsington palace, where
SUE ASKED inc Archpishop OF canterbury to
piuy ior her, ana thev kneit down, lmplor-
lnS aIvihe guidance until TINS hour, not
i;ntod Jn Ines tne supiine htursy OF her estab-
t,sheu church, put on al occasions, she has
1irectly or indirectly declared, Il believe in |
uoa the rather Almighty maker OF heaven |
nt. anu oat,n, una IN Jesus Chrlst, MS only be-
Sot!eh son aeciare IL, FEARLESS OF con-
G,, traolc,lon, tnat the mlyhtiest champion OF
Snr,s'iamits a to-uay Is the throne OF Eng
ANU me queen DooK, so much criticised
u. u. tne tlhe Oh its appearance some saying |
~ ~ was NOT skiliiuny done ana some saying |
.nat the private anairs OF a household
ought hot SO 10 nave been exposed, was
ncvertneiess u pook OF vast usefulness
rom the lact that 1t showed that
,'s you was nckhowiedged In all her
me anu that "Rock OF Ages"
MAS MAS hot an uhusuai song IN WINDSOR Castle.
wy. WIS her son, the irince OF wales. down
wltn ah Illness tnat panied the greatest
uoStors oi England! Ihen she proclaimed
oay Oh prayer TO Almighty God, and in
nhsweI 10 Ihe prayers OF the whole civilized
woriu tne frihee got well. was Sevastopol
10 DC taken ana tine thousands OF bereaved
houhes OF soidiers TO be comforted, she
calleu her nation TO Its knees, and the
prayer was answered. See her walking
through tne hospitals like an angel OF
mercy. was there ever an explosion Of
I nre uamp III the mines OF Shef1ield or
wares anu her Telegram was not the first to
~ I'VE WIN help ana christian sympathy2
~ ffesldent darneld dying at Long Branch
anu y Is not the capie under the sea reaching
10 balmoral Castle Kept busy In announcing
'he symptoms OF the sunerert