The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-01-28
LATE QUEEN VICTORIA
SUBJECT OF REV. j. CUMMING
SMITHS TALK AT TABERNACLE.
He Refers 10 Her Religious Views
and Life-Hcr influence Over
Vast People.

Ddcle tUufCHs last eSenlnS gave bdih Ou
Queen Victoria His text was Isaiah,
1923, And kings shall be thy nursing
fathers, and their queens thy nursing
mothers; they shall bow down TO thee with
their face toward the earth. and lick up
the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know
that 1 am the Lord: for they shall not be
ashamed that wait for me-" Mr. Smith
said:
lone cannot rejoice too much over the
unfeigned sorrow on both sides the water
because Of the Queens death. Even IL
such tokens of grief were simulated for the
sake of diplomacy, IL would show that we
need diplomacy TO cement two vast parts
Of our world We believe the lamentation
rises from deeper source. 1t springs from
that conscious and unbrOken sense or unity
between mother and daughter which. like
kindred law in narrower realm, Is none
the less potent because the daughter has
grown to woman's estate and become
mCther. In spite of contentious, there are
these profound and submarine sympathles
between England and America; these COM
mon interests are the ligaments of en-
pres. 1t would be well If the Saxon race
were welded together more closely The
coming war will be between two -hemi-
spheres, two distinct and essentially antag-
onistic racial developments; between Asia
and America, and the Saxon races VIII
need TO grid their strength for the inevtta-
bic feud. The battle of Armageddar Will
DO the contest between two branches of the
race that grew apart when the world was
young and have now met TO clash when
the world is old and which cannot coalesce
because OF intrinsic deep-rooted differences
In language, religion, government and In
stlncts.
LATE QUEENS INFLUENCE.
However, if the chord of strife is alien
to the requiem, let us look into the secret
of the late Queens influence. She was not
supremely intellectual. She was not many
sided or opalescent. She pales beside the
brilliancy of Elizabeth or Empress Cath
crime. Her long reign of over six decades
saw the mind of the world march along
fabulous pathway Of discovery in natural
directions New facilities, new machines,
new railroads. new steamships. new light
ing equipment, new everything; the Queen
was not distantly congenial with these
mechanical contrivances. Still she bound
the wage-earning class to her throne by
the simple glory of her rare, rich woman
hood Her long reign witnessed many new
statutes that brought up the masses to
welcome emancipations and her reign will
long enjoy undimmed luster because OF the
measures that ameliorated the lowly suf-
ferers and smoothed the unvoiced anguish
of poverty. Still the Queen, though affili-
ated with such forward movements of phi
lanthropy, did not lead in that direction,
charm. Her long reign was opulent in lit
erature, prodigal with that general htera-
ture that flowers out like prairie blooms
only TO wither. Starry with some litera-
ture that will die only when the earth
shall cease. But the Queen was not liter
airy in her tastes and yet the sons OF
genius chanted her glory. What is the
secret? Is il far TO seek? 1t lay In her I'M
blemished womanhood, in the simple affec-
tons, unchilled by snowy SUBMITS of pow
er, her love for home. In an era OF spe-
cialists, the Queen embalmed and gloriheG
the central power of benignancy, broad
no particular harbor and yet refreshes
every shore. While other women wed with
each others in some literary or political
effort. the Queen shone warmly on all
classes, the fount of good will toward all.
In an age when women struggle for recog-
milton and nobly so; when the fear of los
ing Individuality or pf sinking into the
common traditional woman hauntS the
gentle sex, il is not untimely to remember
that a woman who. owed much to her
throne, but was perhaps greater than her
throne, was conspicuous for guileless,
ol0-fashiOned, beneficent wOmanhOod and
will live in history by that solitary excel
lence. The more the world follows the law
OF specialization, the more men or women
thirst for some particular action or ex-
cellence to redeem themselves from the
guilt of mediocrity, the more is it a duty to
exalt those broad, democratic qualities we
have in common, those immortalities OF
daily worth and love that hold the mad
whrl of life in any: sort of poise. The
monarch who while weighed down with
the problems OF government, gathered
groups of prattling grandchildren and little
pet animals around her. These simple
womanhoods made her great. Let all am
bilious experts learn the world would
slowly disintegrate without the culture or
the broad humanities.
1.-The prophet of old previsioned the time
bar, Shn ha mn fathers
the Queens should be nursing mothers TO
the church
A RELIGIOUS WOMAN.
1.-The Queen was an intensely religious
woman. The skeptieisms of her colleges
never afflicted the sincerity of her faith.
She believed in prayer. After the Prince
Consort's death she had a private sanctu-
airy where she comrauned with his spirit.
And these still hours spent with unseen
powers no doubt went far to give d bal
ance and dignity 10 the most anxious
hours of her reign. She was emphatically
a church woman. In England the church
is an arm of the s5ate; In america the
threats in the marsk of a summer evening
and they shoot arrows into the future In
different directionS. The Established
Church of England appears a grave inJus-
who do not attend or believe in it, To us IN
free America, where religion must depend
upon itself. IL seems an anomaly. Catho-
lies and Nonconforrnists may Well resent
the glaring injustice. However democrat
lied England is becoming in her policies, 1
fancy the state church will weather few
more storms yet.
land larger question looms up easily
and logically. Does the state owe the
church a dollar? AT once the days of
Rome's thraldom of European diplomacieS
are conjured up, and the mass howl in de-
rision at any remote connection between
church and state. But let US return to
lull OF sanity. Does the state not owe the
church? Take the whole church force
out of the state, and do you not let loose
an army of demons, anarchy, rebellion i'm
morality, distrust panic, mob law? is not
real estate dependent on morals? Is not
an equitable government based on morals:
Do not ethics underlie prosperity? And
are not ethics in the last analysis rooted
In the principles of revealed religion?
Should not infidels be willing to be taxed
for church as we'll as for school, since both
these aim TO create character that
blooms out in good citizenship? Perhaps
If the sects were boiled down after a few
squirms into silence like Holsters in the
chaldron, infidels gould submit 10 a tax
for the support OF original unvarnished
Christianity; but sobsters have not the
thick impenetrable; shells OF sects. The
churches never will be silent on iniin-
itesimal points. nor agnostic on unimpor-
tant and unknowaEle speculations. So the
infidel grudges tsx for the church.
FAULT WITH THE CHURCH.
But the fault lies in the church in that
case. And none the less is it true that
the ideal thing is: tie between church