The San Francisco call., 1899-06-05

republics 1t will be particularly appropriate to
study carefully the life of Victoria, because
since the coronation of the child queen, more
than three score years ago, the English Gov
ernment has, in remarkably impressive man
ner. emphasized the poetic words OF lsraei
warrior king, righteousness exalteth ma
tom"
From Victoria's birth, on May "a. 1919, In
Kensington- Palace, to the night OF June ~.
1897 when she was declared queen. and on 70
her marriage to Prince Albert, February ~.
lS4O the young ruler HE was radlant WIN ~
peace and happiness which continued with IN
creasing sweetness and JOY for twenty years
The noble prince gallant and tender
lish and American youth which has rarely
been equaed and never been surpassed. NIne
good prince filled his delicate posltlon aS
husband of the Queen of England with an ap-
probation of his official relationships wnicts t
attracted to himself the loving admiration OF
the entire nation. He brilliant man OF
strong mind born statesman-''eNery men d
never distastefully projected himself into the
counsels Of the nation; and, when in lSol
Prince Albert was suddenly gathered to his
fathers. not only was the broken hearted Queen
enveloped in a dark shadow from whlch she
never emerged and the whole English nauIn
Christian world mourned the loss OF one oil the
superbest Christian noblemen of the most ex-
Qusite type which this old, sinful world mas
ever known. No one has taken ms place
Prince Albert is the ideal Christian man.
Marvellous and unprecedented nave been me
achievements of these sixty-two years. What
epochs have been turned! What mighty men
have been builded, At her coronation George
Stephenson perfecting his railroad; Wheat
stone was experimenting with electricity; Dick
ems was publishing "Oliver Twist (; Carlyle and
Browning and Thackeray were already dis
tinguished Tennyson was having a favorable
Introduction; Father Matthew was preaching
total abstinence TO the Irish people; Gladstone
had been in Parliament five years and Disraeli
had lust made his inauspicous maiden speech :;
Macaulay was in India and Rowland Hill was
working out his plan for cheap postage.
As the decades advanced TO this galaxy Of
greatness were added Wellington and Havelock
and Livingstone and Palmerston. Derby and
Peel and Bright Salisbury and Richard Cob
den. Then there were Southey and Campbell
and Tom Moore, Swinburne and Rossetti, Jean
Ingelow. and Wordsworth. Darwin and Huxley
and Spencer and Tyndall and many other
bright luminaries in the political and intellec-
tual and religious armament
There have been uneXampled triumphsi Vic
tories for science, for popular education and
for personal freedom. The corn laws were
abolished; the ballot was adopted: the aboli-
the Irish state church; the treaty of Berlin
the establishment of free and universal educa-
non; the treedom OF the universities, the spleh-
did reform of household suffrage, and the sub
stantial disappearance of sectarian and de-
nominatonal antagonsms. Truly this Victor
tan reign has been period of victories for a
broader and brighter civilization. righteous
ness eXalteth nation"
The whole trend of Queen Victoria's reign
has been toward the universal peace which
shall some day burst in Eladness over the whole
earth. When. at the Queens jubilee in 1887
the Governor of the Colony Victoria asked the
Queen TO select a passage of scripture to be
placed in a copy of the New Testament which
was TO be presented to all the children who
participated in the exercises of jubilee day. her
Majesty wrote: "On earth peace. good will to-
ward men" A grateful American people will
never forget the almost disastrous Trent ep-
sode. which. at the breaking out of our civil
war would have involved US in bitter struggle
the peace-loving Queen. assisted by amiable