Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-28
NOTABLE TRIBUTES
Many Sermons Inspired by the Career
of Queen Victoria,
POTENT FOR THE WORLDS GOOD
Her WomanIiness and Virtues Ex-
toIed With EIoquence.
AS MOTHER AND MON ARCH

AS MOTHER AND MON MARCH
Queen Victoria's potential personality was
the theme which inspired the sermons of
various preachers yesterday and from each
pulpit re-echoed the tributes to her
womanly virtues which have been sounded
in universal chorus ever since her deplored
DEATH Especially significant were the SER
wees at the Charch of the Epiphany, where
special musical requiem program had been
prepared and Rev. Dr.. Randolph II. Nc
Kim had announced memorial sermon
The British ambassador and Lady Paunce-
fote the Misses Pauncefote and Messrs
Lowther Norman and Burton-Alexander
of the embassy and local members of the
Sens of ST. George were in attendance.
In the course of a markedly impressive
sermon DR.. McKim said that never since
history began had monarch or ruler leader
hero, sage or benefactor been mourned
by so large portion of the population OF
the globe Queen Victoria, and by her
subjects and those who owed her throne
NJ allegiance she was mourned as people
mourn the loss of one of their own house.
hold.
Further on DR.. McKim spoke as follows:
THAT she woman of fine 1ntell1-
gence and rare tact; that she possessed
strong common sense and penetrating Judg-
ment; that she was wise counselor, ana
that in more than one great national crisis
it was her will and her counsel that gov
erned the policy of the empire has been the
verdict of the illustrious men who have,
since her accession to the throne. filed the
great office of premier of Great Britain.
But If ask what has made her so Illus
trious, what has given her such an exalted
part in the history of the wonderful nine
teenth century, what has placed in her
hands the scepter of dominion over the
hoo Of of16 nnt m N a
British empire, but throughout the world,
there cannot be a moments hesitation
about the answer.
Ever Faithful Victoria.
at was the power of goodness it
the heart of the woman, not her intellect;
it was the fact that, though occupying the
throne of the greatest empire under the
sun, she was never for moment .dazzled
by the glory of the world; never for mo-
ment intoxicated by the spendor of her
position: never for a moment swerved from
the orbit of wOmanly and wifely and queen
ly duty, but remained ever faithful to that
high ideal which she had in youth set her
self to pursue under the inspiration of the
religion of Jesus Christ.
You remember the touching story of her
chidhood-that when she was twelve years
oil she Was-told for the first time that she
was heir to the scepter of the British en-
pire, and that, after an exclamation of sur
prise, she looked UP and said, while her
eyes UlIeu ana ner voice LremDleQ. L WILL
be good! I will be good
''Well, as we study her life and her reign
today, as she lies in her coffin, see that
those simple words expressed the ambition
which governed her life and gave character
to her reign. She studied and labored to
the good, and she became great. She made
goodness her supreme aim, and honor and
fame came to her unSought. She esteemed
human applause and earthly glory as bub-
bles in comparison with virtue, and lo the
world has risen up to crown her with honor
and glory above all the kings and queens
that have occupied her ancestral throne
since the days Of Alfred the Great
PUREST OF sOVEREIGNs.
Points of a Scholarly Discourse by
Rev. Frank NJ. Bristol.
The large congregation at Metropolitan
NJ E. Church listened to scholarly SER
mon on Queen Victoria by Rev. Dr.. Frank
M Bristol He said in the course Of his
remarks that no other single character had
welded a greater influence in the world
during the past sixty years than this good
queen.
"A world, not an Isolated nation. bows in
reverential sorrow at the bier Of the purest,
most exalted sovereign that ever graced
throne; world, not an England alone,
claims the sad privilege of paying homage
to her memory. America shall be second to
no other nation in rendering honor to whom
honor is due, and in extending the most
profound sympathy to the country where,
in mute thousands, the mourners go about
the Streets
1T is due in no small measure to the
Christian wisdom of Victoria that the most
significant moral and political fact in this
dawn of the new century is the amicable
relations existing between the United States
and Great Britain. The world is anxiously
asking, What will be the result of this
growing love of mother country for daugh-
and Of pfr1r for
mother country? Is AnglO-SaXon civilZa-
| ton to dominate the world-the civilization
of law and liberty, the civilization of science
and Christianity? Is the English language
to become universal? Are these two mighty
nations, by the inspirations of divine Provi-
dence, to control the future, to shape the
worlds destiny, and to usher in the king
dom of God and brotherhood and peace?
1T is great moral distance from the
England Of George III to the England of
Victoria. The good queen. who on ascend
ing the throne said: I'll be good would
have been sneered out of the Georgian
courts as prude But for more than half
q century she has dictated the ethics and
etiquette of European courts, and though
the granddaughter of George III, she was
| ten generations in advance of him in her
moral sentiments, ideals and influence, so
| that she has appeared in all these last most
glorious years to be a Martha Washington
| on the English throne. Even the most
democratic democrat must feel that if any
mortal ever ruled right, it was good Queen
Victoria since the year IN winch Andrew
| Jackson retired from the presidency of the
| United States and Martin Van Buren, as
sumed the honors of that office, Victoria
| has welded the scepter over Great Britain.
! She witnessed the administration of at least
| seventeen Presidents, and reigned during
| more than half the time of our own ma
| tiOnal existence 1t seems almost incredible
| that Victoria's name belongs not only to
the days of. Salisbury, Gladstone, Bright
| and Beaconsfield, but also to the days of
Brougham Palmerston, Macaulay, Peel and
Wellington, and that she was a potent his
| toric influence not only in the lifetime of
| Grant and Lincoln, but also when Clay,
| Webster and Calhoun were in their prime!',
A MORAL BULWARK.
Rev. DIR. Alexander Mackay-Smith
| Upon the Queens Christianity.
| Rev DIR. Alexander Mackay-Smith eulo-
| g!Zed the queen in the morning service at
| ST. Johns Church. In the course Of his
| sermon he said, in part: