The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-28
PRAISGD FROM PULPI7S
Sermons Of Washington Diyiaes
on Queen Victoria.
,IuIariStic Tributes Delivered in
Many Churches - Lord and Indy
doiph NcI>im's Scrviccs-Thc Rev.
DIR. Bristol f1xtoIs The Dead Ruler.

The life and reign OF Queen Victoria,
her character, and the achievements of
her time. formed the basis OF many ser
moas delivered by pastors in Washington
puiplts yesterday. In her civic -:irtues
and public acts were found the examples
of Christian womanhood and wise and
noble sovereignty.
Without exception those who selected
Britain's late lamented Queen as the sub
jet OF their discourses were generous in
their lsudation. and from her career were
drawn the lessons Of the day. In nearly
every church. even where the sermon was
upon ether lines Of thought, there was
some specific reference to the death of
the great English ruler. The leading ad-
dresses upon Victoria were delivered by
Rev. DR.. McKim, at the Church of the
Epiphany, and by Rev. DR.. Bristol, at the
Metropolitan n. z. Church
Lord and Lady Pauncefote attended the
service at the first named church, and
there were also present several attaches
of the embassy. Two lodges of the Sons
of ST. George, the patron saint of Eng
land, also attended in body. The SER
vice of song was especially arranged for
the occasion.
In the course of his address DR.. Mcflim
said:
We have seen during the past week
the whole world watching beside the sick
bed of the dying Queen and hen mourning
her dead. almost as If every people and
nation owed her homage You remember
the jubilee beacon fires that famsd out
with their message of loyalty from hill to
hill. from mountain top TO mountain top.
all over the British Isles, even to the far
He5rides in the north. And then as one
described it at that time, slowly as the
light failed from day TO evening round
the world the Empires torch was lit.
From st. Heliers. the signal leaped to Gil
braltar. to Malta. Cyprus. to Ceylon, to
India, where it blazed triumphant on the
Himalayas, TO China, TO Australia. TO
Canada. to the West Indies-the Empires
torch shed its radiance.
1T was a ye-y impressive feature of
the great jubilee festival, but we have
seen il far surpassed during the past six
days. Spontaneous, without pre-concert
or prearrangement, We have seen funeral
pyres kindled in honor of the dead Queen
all round the globe. From island to
island their light has shot up to the sky;
from shore to shore, from mountain range
to mountain range from continent TO
continent, symbols of an empire far
vaster than that Of England-the empire
OF a virtuous and unselfish woman over
the hearts of men in all lands and in all
chimes.
And this spontaneous and universal
tribute Of loving grief is but one express
sion of a larger fact. l mean that This
good Queen and this noble woman has
some how SO impressed herself upon the
age just ended that it has come to be
known and viii ever be known as the Vic
torian era. The age of Ch2rlemagne and
the age of Louis XIV are not more GER
tain TO continue to be known by the
names of those great personagcs than is
the nineteenth century to stand forth in
history henceforth and for all time as he
age Of Victoria.