The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-02-02
MEMORIAL SERVICES
Attended by the President and
Cabinet at Washington.

washington. Feb. I'm the presence
of a distinguished assemblage, including
the president of the United States and
his entire cabinet, impressive tribute to-
day was rendered to England's dead
queen The ceremony occurred at St.
Johns Episcopal church, beginning at II
o'clock this morning. and was distinctly
official in character. The memorial SER
mon was delivered by Bishop Satterlee,
who spoke as follows:
This is q memorable moment in the
@ las the Church bells are toning the
eleventh hour in England this day. the
for three score years are being held amid
the hush of nations silence and at the
earth ali through the British empire and
wherever else a Church of England seEv-
of the dead is being said
st is as though the funeral at windsor
ten thousand other passing scenes; as
though the service there were echoed over
multitude, like the sound of many waters
rises up from earth TO heaven and at
each Of these myriad services. human lips
are uttering the same devotional words
human souls are breathing the same
prayers and human hearts are bowed
down with the same deep sense Of loss
the loss, as 1t were, Of q personal FRIEND
burial office, with which the poorest and
low1iest of England's sons and daughters
being said over England's queen. She was
one with her people in their lives: she IS
now one with them in her death: one
rection; and all her Christian people feel
that as she was faithful unto death,
so the Lord shall give unto her crown
..F For the world is a better world for this
queens life as q servant of God.
There are some characters 50 pure, 50
true and unselfish in their unaffected sim
own country, but to the world at large
Something Is there in the quality OF their
lives which enr1ches human history and
makes stronger our faith in human nature
ssSuch was Queen Victoria To the Eng
fish nation her majesty, with the scepter
of the British empire In her hand, was
first the sovereign. then the woman
ITO the people of other lands she was
example of true womanhood and royalty
so tremendously blended together into one
that by Gods good help she was able to
fransforrn those insidiolas temptations to
evil which encompass every royal palace
into opportunities for doing good; and SO
to live, for three score years, under the
fierce light which beats upon a throne,
that all her people are joining with all her
own children In rising up to call her
England has had many rlustraous SOW
ereigns from William the Conqueror down.
whose signal victories, powers OF admin
istratfon and gifts of leadership shine re-
splendent on the pages Of history, but
whose reign has been such an inspiration
to all that was noble and true IN the
lovingly just as that gracious and beloved
sovereign whose burial we are solemnizing
this day?
IN her life as q queen she has shown
the world that. even royal throne,
character Is the noblest Of all human pos
sessions
:sOther kings and queens, of her own
race and of other lands, had blood
royal flowing in their veins and regal
power and opportunities as great as hers:
but she, by her faithfulness to the ideal
OF Christian womanhood. has lifted up
the ideal Of sovereignty and has enrlched
the world. revealing what every true
hearted king and queen should be and can
be in these golden days of modern en-
lightennent and civilization
VERY characteristic and full of deep
significance now-in q moment like this
when her whole life is being lived over
again in the memory of Others-is that
familiar tale which IS told of her earlier
days
that she was to be England's queen. the
reply. sprang instantaneously to her lips:
I viii be good
and afterward when one of the princes
OF India asked the young queen the cause