Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-28
A TRIBUTE TO THE QUEEN.
The Rev Mir Granger Took Victoria for
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 'Her children rise up and call her blessed. .''-Prov xxXi:2S.
 Every available. seat was occupied last evening at the Third Congrega- tional church, where special services were held in honor of the late queen of England. Here and there within the edifice was displayed the Stars and Stripes, and tic Union Jack. The musical services by the choir and the congregational hymns were of a lofty and patriotic Dature.
 During the services the pastor of the church. the Rev MT Granger, paid noble tribute to the departed queen, passing his subject upon selection from the twenty eighth verse of the thirty-first chapted of Proverbs. The Rev AIr Granger spoke in part as fol lows:
 Considering the fact that a large number of the members of our church and congregation were at one time her favored subjects, 1 have thought that it would doubtless be pleasing to them to dedicate the service to the late queen. Considering also the fact that three -fourths of my own blood is of British Extraction, I possess mutual sympathy enough at this time to have something to say. Considering fur ther the fact of the long and beautiful reign of the queen, also her Christian character and endowments, l regard her an eminently worthy subject for our thought and consideration this Sunday evening.
 Queen Victoria was born at Kensing- ton palace May 24, 1919. She ascend ed the throne June 20, 1887, being scarcely a month over age-being IS years and 27 days old. Dying during the past week. she was S2 years old and had reigned siXty-four years. This long reign has not been one of peace and quiet altogether. The nation has experienced it's political disruptions. fierce foreign wars haR been engaged in, famines have invaded different-por- tions of the empire, several attempts have been made to assassinate the queen. sickness and death and disap- pointment have entered into the cir cle of the royal family. The reign of Victoria to my mind strikingly com pares with the reign of David and like his. though attended with many difficulties and distress, on the whole eminently successful and prosperous.
 "NictOril was q good queen. She was loved by her people and respected by the world. She will ever be relnem- bered as q good and faithful ruler. Al ways busy attending faithfully to her duties and the will of the people, ire qucntly sacrificing her own personal feelings and ambitions. she was ever successful and ever true. Not every ruler can be thus spoken of. And yet her administration was always firm, she was not to be hoodwinked nor i'm posed upon. She was progressive and yet with modern moderation. History will not record q wiser and safer ruler than Queen Victoria. She was good queen to my mind an ideal queen.
 ''She elevated womanhood. Victoria was a woman. The world will never forget that fact and she was q most illustrious type of womanhood. Who ever maintains that woman is not and -ASX .t49 1so1 De maii eGua1 in pefs0ffa lat. tainments has but to be reminded of Victoria. She has forever destroyed the fallacy She ennobled motherhood. Though queen of the greatest of em- pires, she was the mother of nine chil- dren and in spite of her busy social and business life she is said to have given them ali mothers affection and attention Motherhood! Victoria was wise enough and divine enough to cherish her right to motherhood. In all ages God has honored good mother hood. Victoria appreciated the nobil- ity of motherhood and in truth en- nobled it.''
 The speaker had only words of pyaise for Victoria as a Christian. Her children rise up and call her blessed' Not only her next ill kin her own immediate family-but that great family whom she was pleased to call her children. her subjects, and that additional family on this side of the Atlantic. to whom she is known as queen. Blessed Queen Victoria! In the memory of her children. this cpl taph: Victoria. the good, Christian, mother, queen.''. The services Were brought to close by all present sing ing ''America.''
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