The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-02-09

her subjects. AS the temporal head of
the church of her country, she fully rec
ognized her grave responsibilities and
duty, and was ever jealous in maintain
ing the right, yetYwithal ever liberal to
those who thought apart from her. Ever
sympathetic, whose ear was always open
to the wants of her people, she was
doubly popular with the poor, and many
and many the cottager in want has had
his heart made glad through her bounty.
1t can hardly be denied that the great
ness of England today is in a large
measure due to those traits in Her Maj
esty, which have endeared her SO to the
hearts of her people. Her reign has
been a marvellous one; not only has it
exceeded in length that of any predeces-
sor, but during It's period the whole
world would almost seem to have sprung
from darkness into light. 1t seems to
have been the turning point of education
and discovery. The arts, sciences, liter
ature, invention, and learning along all
it's lines have awakened in a degree al
most magical or incomprehenSible. 1t
has surely been famous reign.
Truly, we mourn today for sovereign,
but not without hope, and you, and l,
as she, may rise to life once more, and
hold 1t through eternity. We, too, may
meet our loved ones, and the Crown of
Life belongs to those who win it.
"A SooQ queen, d devoted Hotnef,
holy woman, and a sincere friend, whom
from henceforth we shall know only in
the pages of history.
! Rev. Henry Parker delivered an adj
dress in Hawaiian for the benefit of the
native auditors and spoke feelingly of
the life and work of Queen Victoria,
whom he said was the greatest mon
arch of her sex who ever sat upon the
throne. Rev. w. NJ. Kincaid paid a
beautiful tribute to the Queen, full of
! incidents of her life and the power for
| good that she exercised in all the world
| His was a tribute, he said, to a great
and good woman. the noblest of her sex
i whom Britain has ever had as a ruler.
Her death had cast cloud of the
deepest gloom over the entire civilized
world The first twenty years of her
reign were marvellous in that the infiu-
ence of her husband, one of the best
and greatest men of his time shaped
England's destinies. But for over forty
years she had reigned without him and
with a wisdom equal at least to that
which characterized the first twenty
years of her reign. Here the real secret
of that long and glorious reign was
discovered, and it was that as a girl
and as a woman Victoria had prayed
not for riches and long life, but for
wisdomA She prayed at the beginning
of her reign for goodness. She said in
her girlhood, II will be good" and she
had been good. Therefore for this
quality of her being the English
speaking peoples all over the world
had bestowed upon her the title of
Victoria the Good" He spoke of the
scenes attending the announcement to
her that she was Queen when she won
dered whether she possessed wisdom to
accept the responsibilities of office. She
had knelt down in PRAYER with the
Archbishop of Kensington and her
prayer to be just and good had been
answered. He recited the events OF
history which had occurred in her reign
of princes, kings and presidents assas-
sinated, of empires dissolved and new
. ones made, of thrones abdicated, of for
eign capitals bathed in the bloodshed
of war. He compared her brilliant
reign and her last words with those
of former queens, wherein tragedy and
sorrow had been so prominent. She
was revered as never woman had beer
revered before. The bringing together
| of the English-speaking Anglo-Saxor
) races had been the greatest work OF
Victoria, and she had lived to see he1
object accomplished-Engl ano
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