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Excerpt from In Memoriam: A Sermon Preached in St. Andrew's Church, Ottawa, on Sunday Morning, January 27th, 1901, to Commemorate the Death of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria
She was the Queen of the home. Children and children's children rise up and call her blessed. Her union with the lamented Prince Consort was a union of mutual a?'ection and when his death made the crown a lonelv splendour, the Queen' 5 chief solace was found in cherishing his clear memory, and m training her children to the prae tice of industry, unselfishness and the fear of God. The homes of Britain. Whether humble or illus trions, might well follow the example set by the royal wife and mother. She desired to see pure love crowned everywhere, and her inmost soul abhorred intrigue and licentiousness. There can be no doubt that the high regard for home which, amid many disintegrating tendencies of the age, still remains so strong among the English people, has been fostered. To a greater extent, perhaps, than anyone suspects, by the blameless home life of Queen Victoria.
And yet that home was not without its deep af?ictions. Over and over again, Victoria hasbeen the queen of sorrows. But so far from al lowing private grief to interfere with public duty, the heart that mourned for loved ones snatched away has been all the more quick to understand and sympathize with the woes of others and the chequered experience of Britain's ruler has only increased the tactful wisdom which served to guide the ship of state past dangerous rocks into a haven of safety.
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