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To-day's Advertisements.

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS..

CLOSED TO-DAY.

TO-DAY,

(SATURDAY), FEBRUARY IND, Having been set apart for the MEMORIAL SERVICES for her late MAJESTY THE QUEEN, there will be NO Performances until MONDAY, FEBRUARY 4TH.

Boarry LoVE... Hongkong, and February, 1901.

Manager.

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THE PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.

STEAM FOR STRAITS, CEYLON, AUSTRALIA, INDIA, ADEN, EGYPT, MEDITERRANEAN PORTS. PLYMOUTH AND LONDON. (Through Bills of Lading issued for BATAVIA, PERSIAN GULF, CONTINENTAL and AMERICAN PORTS).

HE Steamship

THE

"COROMANDEL," Captain F. W. Vibert, R.N.R., carrying Her Majesty's Mails, will be despatched from this for BOMBAY, on SATURDAY, the 16th instant, at Noon, taking Passengers and Cargo for the above Ports.

Silk and Valuables, all Cargo for France, and Tea for London (under arrangement) will be transhipped at Colombo into a steamer proceeding direct to Marseilles and London; other Cargo for London, &c., will be conveyed vid Bombay with Transhipnient.

Parcels will be received at this Office until 4 M. the day before sailing. The Contents and Value of all Packages are required. --

Shippers are particularly requested to note the terms and conditions of the Company's Bills of Lading.

For further Particulars, apply to

A. M. MARSHALL,

Acting Superintendent,

Ḥnbelang. and February, ront.

Intimations.

EYE

SIGHT.

Mr. N. LAZARUS,

Occulist-Optician, of London and Calcutta, may be consulted for SPECTACLES

at 16, Queen's: Road Central, (B. HOUGHTON & Co.) (Nearly opposite the Hongkong HOTEL). Business hours:-9 AM,to 5 PM.

A diseases afecting those advancing in life GREAT proportion of cataracts and

occur to those having some deficiency in the construction of the ́eyes—the many years of 'Eye Strain' ending in serious forms of disease. Glasses specially adapted in youth to those requiring them save and preserve the sight,

Constantly recurring headaches, spells of dimaess when roading, weak eyes, the letters running together; any of these symptoms indi. cate a deficiency in the form of the eye requir ing Glasses only to correct and curs.

Mr. LAZARUS supplies his SPECTACLES only after testing the sight.

ADVICE FREE. -

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A. S. WATSON & Co., LIMITED.

ESTABLISHED A.D. 1841.

WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANTS,'

PORTS.

(For Invalids and General Use.)

B-VINTAGE, superior quality, Red Capsule...

Per doz.

Cook

.$14.40

CFINE OLD VINTAGE, Sup. erior quality, Black: Seal Capsule... 10.20

D-VERY FINE CLD VINTAGE extra superior, Violet Capsule (Old Bottled) 20.40

Port after removal should be rested for a month before use, Wine re- quired for drinking at once should be ordered to be decanted at the Dis pensary before being sent out. These Wines are too favourably known to need comment.

.

Sample bottles and smaller quanti. ties will be supplied at proportionate wholesale rates..

We only guarantee our Wines and Spirits to be genuine when bought direct from us in the Colony or from our authorized Agents at the Coast Ports

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 2, 1901.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

IT requested that all communication, relating to Stil scriptions Advertisements, &c. be addressed to the Llanagar, Hongkong Telegrafk", and not to the Editors.

Letters on Editorial sarjurs to be sent to "The Editor" janá novca lażleidual members of the staff.

Communications intented for publication must be necem panied by the name and addressol the writers, not neceisarily. for publication; but as evidence of good filth.

Whilst the columns of the Hongkong Telegraph will alwayi The open for the fair discynulon by correspondents of all ques

dons affecting pabila interests, it must be distinctly under- stood that the Editor does not in any way hold himsi responsible for opinions thd expressed..

BRA NASTE. CH1o of roblisty has just come toy

light. Mr. Moe Cheung, photographer Ice House Street, early on Thursday morning was. robbed of à sum of $260. It has been his prac. stica for some time to provide a countryman of his, when out of work, with food antilodging, and generally to give him the run of his house. On Wednesday, Mee Cheung-chflected an account of $ign from the Pollard Lilliputian Company which he carried home and locked away. The "friend," who was then staying with him, made himself aware of this fact and sarly, next taph noming when his host had tetired to bed, he crept down to the shop and bruke open a drawer in which he Enew Mes Cheung kept his money, From this drawer he took a box, and made bis ¡¡way quietly to the roof of the house and forced

The Hongkong Celegraph

HONGKONG, SATURDAY, FEBRUÁRY 3, 1901.

HOTES AND COMMENTS.

To-day is a day of mourning the world

MEMORIAL SERVICE.

A Memorial Barvice in Gommemoration of our most Gracious Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, was held today, the day of burial at St John's Cathedral at 11.30 am. There were present, in the front seats, H.E The Governor (Sit.Henry A. Blake, G.CMG) Lady Blake angi Miss Blake, the members of the Hongkong Legislative and Executiya Councils, sail the Formiga Commuls, the German Admitai with his star, 11 E The Governor of Maczo,

Sir John Carrington, C.M.G. (Chief Justee), stand Hon. T. Sercambe Smith (Acting Puisve Judge), and many of the legal profession, most of the officers of the garrison, and most of the prominent residents of the colony.........

ORDER OF SERVICE.

A VOLUNTARA.--DEAD MARCH #ROK”

it open. The thief must have been rather dis-The Service was opened by the officiating appointed with the amount of his booly, for clergyman reading the following sentences from

the Burial Service:- the box did not contain the $650 as he

1 AM the Resurrection and the Life, saith expected, as Mee Cheung for additional the Lord; he that believeth in Me, though he aver, for the remains of our late Queen,security had luckily placed it elsewhere. The were dead, yet shall be live: and whosoever Victoria the Great and Good, have been laid

box broken open by the thief, however,liveth and believeth in Me shall never die." S in their last resting place with all the tender

contained the sum of $260, with which beeh xì. 25, 26, respect that it was possible for a loving effected his escape. Mee Cheung awoke about people to pay. Never before in its history

(half-past six, and a visit to the shop and the of sixty years has Hongkong worn such a sad and forlorn aspect of mourning as it does discovery of the forced drawer, revealed the to-day. Every place of business, every shop state of things immediately. Mee Cheung at and hotel has closed its doors and even the

nce reported the matter to the police, to whom ubiquitous Chinaman is strangely absenthe supplied a photograph of the thief. It is from his usual haunts, which have a very feared, however, that he has made his way for deserted aspect. Even Nature herself ap-Chinese territory, where he is almost beyond pears to have joined in the ge..eral grief, and hope of capture. the day is cold and cheerless with never al ray of sunshine to pierce the grey clouds.

And if in this far away corner of the Em- pire the day wears these signs of mourning, what must it be like in Lostdan where the.. sad and solemn ceremony is being carried out with all the mournful pomp which can possibly be attained in the capital of a mighty Empire, suddenly cast into the deepest gloom by the death of it's Queen and Empress, a Queen who for simple womanly greatness and goodness has never in the history of the world been equalled, and who can never be replaced. A Queen, indeed, whose memory must for ever endure as the brightest and. purest star in Britain's glorious history? figurehead shining from out the darkest hour that may ever overtake us as a nation, and teaching all a lesson, the following of which cannot fail to make us one and all, morally and physically better men and

women.

But nothing that we can say will ad equately express the love and reverence everywhere felt and expressed for our late Queen throughout the Empire. And ad- miration and respect was not confined to her own people, as the many touching tri- butes from foreigners of every nationality to-day laid at the foot of her statue will testify. Our Portuguese neighbours have shown tha sincerity of their mouling on more than one occasion of late and one of them has sent us the following →→

IN MEMORIAM,

Upah Her Empire never sets the sung And now in death she wields a sweetor sway The glorious record reign half passed away, But not the gentler sway of love she won ?? A love that tells of duty nobly done, And loving deeds worth all the flowers of

May;

A sway that palls the world with gloom to-day, With grief that Britons, aliens, feel as one. So perfect was her life, and such it's rhyme, That born in spring, she died midst wintry

gloom;

Nay, with our sorrow nature too would ebime, That decked her joyous birth with vernal

bloom.

And when the spring returna, her memory

dear Shall dearer, sweater, flourish year by year.

'C. A. MONTALTO DE JESUS.

REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.

BRITISH SOUTH AFRICA.

DE WET ENGAGED BY GENERAL KNOX..

LONDON, January 316L.,

HONGKONG SHARE MARKET.

I KNOW that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth, And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom

not another. mine. eyes shall behold, and xix. 25, 26, 29. EWE brought nothing into this world, and it certain we can carry nothing out. The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed the Name of the Lord. 1 Tim. vi. 72706; The Demini refugium, PSALM XC, was then bung-

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LORD Thou hast, been our refuge: from one generation to another.

#Before the mountains were brought forth, for over the earth and the world ware made: Thou art God from everlasting, and world withi but end."

3. Thou turnest man to destruction: again Thou sayèst Come again, ye children of men.

For a thousand years in Thy sight are but as yesterday: seeing that is past as a watch in the-nighf: -

As soon as Thou scatterest them, they are even as a sleep: and. fade away suddenly like the grass., C

6. In the morning it is green, and groweth eg: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, And witheredzu

For we consume away in Thy displen ure: and are afraid at Thy wrathful indignus fron are afr

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as our trespasses at we forgive them that trea pars against us. And lead us not into tempta tion, but deliver us from evil. "Amen,

ALMIGHTY GOD, Who rulest over all the Kingdoms of the World, and dispesest of them according to Thy good pleasure; We yield Thee unfeigned thanks for that Thau wast pleased to place Thy Servant, our fate Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria, upon the Throne of this Empire. We thank Thee that Thou didst let Thy wildom ba her guide, and Thins arm! strengthen Her. We thank Thee that Thou didst let justice, truth, and holiness, peace and love, and all those virtues that adorn the Chris- tian Profession, flourish in her and-in her court; that Thou didst direct all her counsels and en- deavours to Thy glory, and the welfare of her people and that Thou didst let her always posiess the hearts of her people, so that they were never wanting in honour to her Person, and in dutiful submission to her Authority. We praise Thee that Thou didst give to her a long and prosperous Reigo, with the promise Pof the crown of immortality in the life to come through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ..........

BLESSED LORD, who hast called Chris- tina Princes to the defence of Thy Faith, and, hast made it their duty to promote the spiritual welfare together with the temporal interests of their people We acknowledge with humble and thankful hearts Thy great goodness to us in setting Thy Servant, our late Most Gracious Queen, over this Church and Nation that Thou didst give her all those Heavenly graceS char are requisite for so high a trust, and didsi Cause Thy work to prosper in her hands. We thank Thee that Thou didst lef her eyes ba hold the success of her designs for the service of Thy trus Religion established amongst mus,and didst make her a blessed instrument of protecting and advancing Thy truth, wherever it was persecuted and oppressed. And now that Thou hast called her to Thyself, we pray Thee let-not heresies and false doctrines disturb the Peace of the Church, nor Schisms and causeless divisions weaken it but grant us to be of one heart and mind in serving Thee our God, and obeying her successor according to Thy will: And that these blessings may be continued to after-ages. fat there never be one wanting in her house to succeed her in the government of this Empire, that our posterity may see her children's child. ren, and peace upon Israel. So that we that are Thy peoplo, and sheep of Thy pasture, shall give Thea thanks for ever, and will always he showing forth Thy praise from generation to generation. Amen, A

8. Thou hast sel our misdeeds before Thee: and our secret sins in the light of Thy counten-thanks, for that it hath pleased Thee to deliver anco

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are gons: we bring our years to an end, as it Nerea lale that is fold.

10. The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow,; so spon pasaeth it away and we are gone.

11. But who regarddeth the power of Thy wrath for even thereafter as a man feareth, so is Thy displeasure.

12. So teach us to number our days: that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

HONGKONG, February 1st. Messrs. Benjamin, Kelly and Potts, in heir weekly share report state:-Business bash been fairly large during the week under review and we have to record a further big rise in Hongkong and Whampoa Docks The Hongkong Ice Company, Limited, has given notice of its Twentieth Ordinary Annual Meeting to be held on the 11th Febru: ! ary. The transfer books close from to

The day to the ith instant, inclusive. Hongkong and Shanghai Danking Corpora), tion has advertised its Ordinary Half Yearly Meeting for the 16th February. The transfer books will be closed from tomorrow to the 16th instant, both days inclusives The Hongkong and Whampoa Dock Com. For when Thou art angry, all our days pany, Limited, has notified that its Ordinary Yearly Meeting will take place on the asth February. The transfer books will be closed from the 14th to 28th instant, inclusive. The Universal Trading Company, Limited, has made a call of $15 per share, payable on the 31st March. Banks-Hongkong and Shanghai Banks have been negotiated at 348 and 350 per cent. pre- mium, the market closing steady at the latter rate. The London quotation is unchanged. Nationals are still quoted at $27 buyers Marine Insurances-Unions continue in re- quest at $145. China Traders have sold as in $35. Yangistes have been placed and are wanted at $115. Cantons have again; changed hands at $150. Fire Insurances. Hongkong Fires are offering at $315 Chinâ Fires have been bought at $81 and $92 and have further buyers at the latter figura Ship ping-Hongkong, Canton and Macao Steam boats are steady with sales and buyers at $35, Indo Chinas have steadily advanced and have been booked at $108 to Sito cash and at equivalent rates on time, closing very firm; China and Mañilas are neglected. Douglas Steamships have been sold in small. Tots and more are obtainable at $46. Star Ferries ara a bit quieter and are on offer at quotations Refineries. China Sugars have suddenly come into notice and have been purchased at $13 and $120; for March delivery business has been done at $120 and $115. Luzons have found investors at $39, Mining--Punjoms have been dealt in at 533 but close with sellery at $34. Other stacks under this heading show no change on our previous quotations and we. have no comments to make. Docks, Wharves and Godowns.Hongkong and Whampoa Docks have further advanced and have been fixed at 6ro, 615 and 620 per cent. premium the market closes with enquiries at 630 per cent. premium cash and 645 per cent. premium

13. Turn Thee again, O Lord, at the last and be gracious unto Thy servants.

14. O satisfy us with Thy mercy, and that 100n so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

15. Comfort us again now after the time that Thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have suffered adversity.

6 Show Thy servants Thy work, and their children Thy glory.

17. And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us: prolper Thou the work of our hands upon us, Q. prosper Thou our bandy- work. -

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son ; and to the Holy Ghost

As,it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

Then followed the Proper Lesson 5. Mall.

which was read by A

And seeing the multitudes, He went up into a mountain; and when He was set, His disciples came unto Him and He opened His mouth,” and taught them, saying, Blessed are the pour in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which da hunger and thirst after righteousness; Enr they shall be filled. Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed-are the

for March. Kowloon Wharfs have recovered a pure in heart: for they shall see God, Blessed

are the peacemakers ; for they shall be called

ANTHEM.

The Choir then sang the following, an- Tthern sk

and after sales at $88 and $89 may now be placed at 19o. Wanchai Warehouses and New › the children of God. Amoy Docks are unaltered. Lands, Hotels and a Buildings-Hongkong Lands are easier and can be procured at $199. Hongkong Hotels are steadier and transactions have been effected at $134 and Sras, Humphreys Estates have dividend of St paid on the 18th ultimo and are enquired for at the rate. China Providents have ruled steady with fair sales at $91 Cotton Mills. We have heard of no business locally Cigar Companies.--Are quiet and rates remain unchanged. Miscellaneous Green Island Cements have been taken off market in large S. Watsons have been parcels at $194 bought at $16. Electrics have been disposed of at $13 for the old and $61 for the new issue.. Ices are in the market at $178. The Company, has announced a final dividend of $10 per share. Dairy Farms can be placed at $72.

General Lord Kitchener wires that Debeed done to a large extent at $13 ex the Wat, again attempting to invade Cape Colony, was engaged by General Charles Knox, 40 miles to the North of Thaba N'Chu. No details of the engagement have come to hand. The Daily Mail says it is stated in Capetown that De Wet with a considerable force entered Cape Colony.

THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE QUEEN.

3,073 tronps including bluejackets and all branches of the servite, zag Colonials and 20 of the Indian Army will take part in the funeral procession through London, and 33,385 troops will line the route of the procession-stretching from Victoria to Paddington railway stations.

LOCAL AND GENERAL,

A WORSH, to take charge of children. ex the voyage bome, is advertised for from Panange

Tuldredger Canton River still remains half submerged in the water of the harbour between the Hongkong Club and where H.M.S. Undaun fed is moored, and only about to yards from the Praya Wall. The turning operations have at Just been successful and all that is now wanted is the raising above water. The part visible,

which consius of some of the buckets and gear presents a very dilapidated and rusty appear Race and the cost of the repairs and alterations, together with the money expended on raisingand turning operations, must sutin up to an amount that would almost buy a brand now

ger.

Many of the plates have been tom portian of the bull underneath the water by the fastenings used to fum her, and have been made in vari

pected that within a week the

Halelujah. What are these that are arrayed in white robes, and whence tame they? These are they which came out of great tribulation, and have washed their robes, and made them white in the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are they before the throne of God and serve flim day and night in His temple. They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on, them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. Revelation vii. 13—12, 1

Then The Priest said the following sentences from the Burial Service

MAN that is born of a woman bath but a short.

HARMSTON'S CIRCUS.me to live, and is full of misery. He comath

up, and is cut down, like a dower; he fleethi as were a shadow, and never continueth in one In the midst of life we are in death of whom may we seek for succour, but of Thee, O Lord, Who for our sins art justly displeased.

Yet, O Lord God, most boly: O Lord most mighty, O holy and most merciful Saviour, deli-

ALMIGHTY GOD, with Whom do live the spirits of them that depart hence in the Lord, and with Whom the souls of the faithful, after they are delivered from the burden of the flesh, are in joy and felicity; We give Thep hearty our Most Gracious Queen out of the miseries of this sinful world; beseeching Thee, that it may please Thee of Thy gracious goodness, shortly to accomplish the number of Thine alect, and toaster Thy kingdom; that we, with all those that are departed in the true faith of Thy holy Name, ma bave our perfect consummation and bliss, both in body and soul, in Thy eternal and everlasting glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen, amen

O MERCIFUL GOD, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Who is the resurrection and the life; in Whom; whosoever believeth shall live, though he die; and whosoever liveth, and believeth in Him, shall not die eternally; Who also hath taught us (by His holy Apostle Saini Pauly not to be sorry, as-men without hope, for them that sleep in Him; We meekly bestech Thee. O Father, to raise us from the death of sia unto the life o£righteousness; that, when we shall depart this life, we may rest in Him, as our hope is our Most Gracious Queen doth i and that, at the general Resurrection in the last day, we may be found acceptable in Thy sight and receive that blessing, which Thy wall beloved Son shall then pronoungs to all that love and fear Thee, saying, Come, re blessed children of My Father, receive the kingdom prepared for you from the beginning of the world: Grant this, we beseech Thee, O merci ful Father, through Jesus Christ, our Mediator and Redeemer Amang

The Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Ghost be with us all evermore, Amen,

The Choir and congregation then sang

ARVEN, NO.401.

"The Souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and there shäll no torment“.

touch them," "

NOW the Labourer's task is o'er;

Now the battle day is past Now upon the farther shore Lands the voyager at last. Father, in Thy gracious keeping.

Leave we now Thy Servant sleeping! There the tears of earth are dried;

There its hidden things are clear; There. the work of lifa in tried

By a juster Judge than here. Father, in Thy gracious keeping y Leave we now Thy Servant sleepin There the sinful souls, that turn

To the Cross their dying eyer, 'All the love of Christ shall learn

At His Feet in Paradise. Father, in Thy gracious keeping:

Leave we now Thy Servant sleeping, There no more the powers of hell- Can prevail to mar their peace; Chriar the Lord shall guard them well,

He Wib died for their release,' Father, in Thy gracious keeping

Leave we now Thy Servant sleeping. Earth to earth, and dust to, dust,”

Calmly now the words we say, Leaving Het to sleep in frust Till the Resurrection-day, Father, in Thy gracious keeping

Leave we now Thy Servant sleeping.

Amen.

SERMON

Then The Bishop of Victoria (The Right Rev. JC Hoare, D.D.) preached the sermon

ver us not into the bitter paint of etemal deathtaking as his text Revelations, ch. 3. vat,

Thou knowest, Lord, the egrets of our hearts: shut not Thy merciful cars to our

most mighty, O holy and merciful Saviour, thou most worthy Judge eternal, suffer us not at our last hour, for any pains of death, to all from Thee,

There is some very good entertainmeḍrgoing on at the Happy Valley. Each night farge aumbers of people from the City take the journey and spend a pleasant evening. With the additions that the managment have just ez hibited, nobody need tire of watching the show. The ability of the Jansens, the Sisters From goodas, and Ajax, particularly, is being replayer, but spare us Lord most holy, O God cognised by the audiences and bouquets go to show their appreciation. The Jansens are clever in their athletics. The lady is suspend ed on a trapaza head downwards and supports the weight of her partner on a trapeze, whilst he goes through a mest performance, showing both strength and ability the whole time, Mdeparted; we therefore unite in spirit with thosa Geo Harmston is at home in the ring with bis-horses and ponies and his act with Mddle Lo Blonde.js very aleverly executed on the backs of two korses, The collection of animals, hores especially is a fine one and worthy of visit alone. After being witness to long and pleasing programme, there is the menagerie to inspect and that is not waste of time but undoubtedly the reverse.

In accordance with the general rule in uspending, business for to day, on account of Her Gracious Majesty's funeral taking place there is to be un performance, efther's matinee or evening show, today.z

However, on Monday, a charge in the pre Frame is going to be, fiected and those who [have already been to the circus cannat batier than pay another visit, there is sure Bella ime lacre attendance which has mark

FORASMUCH as it hath pleased Almighty God of His great mercy to take unto Himself the soul of our Most Gracious Queen, hence

who this day commit her body to the ground id atre and certain hope of the Resurrecting to eternal life, through our Lord Jesus Christ Who shall change our vile body, that it may be, like unto His glorious body according to he mighty working, whereby He is able to undue all things to Timself

HEARD voice from Heaven, saying unlo me, Write, From henceforth, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord, even to saitlikhe Spirit, for they rest from their labours,

Lord, bave mercy upon u

Lari, have mARLY NÝ The following perters were JR FATHER WHIC

Chy Na

* Him that overcometh will I grant to sit with

me on my throne.

The Bishop said I remember it once being remarked, td me what a grand thing it was for our Queer that, day after day, and week after week, throughout the whole world, prayers went up on her behalf How often have fall of you joined in such prayers, how olien have you stood up in this church and joined in the words of our national anthem, praying for our Queen that God would and her viclatious, happy and glorious" etc. Now our prayers for her are ended and w have net in sorrow this morning to join in spirit with those who are this day committing her body to the ground, And yet as we meet together, it ought for to be altogether with sorrow. Sorrow there undoubtedly is through aat the whole British Empire, and further than the limits of the British Empire. And yet as Christian men we regard the call of our Queen From us not only with sorrow but also with joy: For We have prayed for, hor, and we know that God has answered our prayers on her behalf. In ile lite we have seen the way in which God! has answered our prayers, and we may be c gia that God antwer prayers that we have

nithe world to come poly

has saved the Queen in this life dithe Ogeep in the lie to come

the death of the Queen not so much with sorrow but with joy, and for that purpose I wish to bring before you briefly three victories and three thrones, given by God to our late beloved and honoured Queen. First, take the victories. God gave to our Queen over her foes. He seated our Qosen upon the thron of Empire. Throughout her long reign therewas almost continubus war, butthanks be to God, her own beloved England was not touched with war. But on the borders of the Empire year after year, her armies were engaged in fighting the. foes, and year after year. your prayers were answered and year after year God sent “her. victorious, happy and glorious.” -Year after year. God spread the borders of her Empire, until at the Inst (Queen Victoria was seated. upon, the throne of an Empire far greater in extent than any other empire that the world has ever seen. We talk sometimes of the great empimo of the Romans in ancient days, but that empire was a mere "drop in the ocean. compared with that of the Queen of England. And so God gave her victories over her fors and he seated her upon the throne of Empire.

Then again, God can give to her a better victory and seat her spon a better thröne, "God gave her victory over temptation; and self, and he seated her upon the throne of love. Think for a moment what her templations- in such a position must have been, Think of when that young Queen, of eighteen years of age, came to the throne of such a vast Empire. How easy it might have been for her to spend her time and powers for herself. Many a ruler has spent his time to enrich himself for his own aggrandizement. It would not have have been unpatural nor difficult for her to have done the sama, to, have left the cares of government to her advisers, and to have lived for herself and not for her people, But what did she do? She lived for us and our welfare and not for her own pleasure or her own aggrane disement. And because we knew that she lived for and because we knew that she loved re therefore, we loved her and she occupied a throne in the heart of each one of her people Far and wide whatever the race or country that acknowledged her rule, felt the sympathy of her power and love. For. how is it that during the past ten days, all her troops, of whate ever nationality, have petitioned that they might be allowed to wear mourning in memory of their Queen? The feeling has not been limited- to one regiment nor ons rate, but through out the Empire all have been bound in the feeling of deepest loyalty; and more than that, of deepest love for our Queen. And why? Because we have known that ons Queen loved. us, and that one Queen sympathised with us. Look at her life. Where was a poor cottager who lived near her who had not seen the Queen coming quietly to the cottage with tender love and sympathy? Where was the poor workman who suffered from his business from some mining accident or other calamity, who did not realize that his first help was the Queen .. Did not her soldiers know that when they went to fight they were followed by the love and direct sympathy of their.Queen? Do not the sailors feel the same? Was there any part of her kingdom, of her Empire, of any section of her subjects who did not know that the Queen's heart was big enough for them all and reck them all in? And because they know it, and because God had given her auch a victory over self, therefore she had her throne within the heart of each: one of her subjects. But there was a yet beller throne a throne to which we believe the bas now passed. God gave her not only victory over foes and temptation and self but mise victory over death and as we faithfully believe, weated her now upon the throne of glory. - To him that overcometh, sayeth Christ, I wil give to sit upon my throne. We must hat think of our Queen as dead.She is not dead, but bas changed her sphere of life, bus she lives. More than a thousand years ago one of her ancestors, who sat upon the throne of England, Edward the Confessor, turned to those who were weeping round him and said as he was dying "Weep not for me, I shall not die but live, and as I leave the land of the dying I trust to see the blessings of the Lord in the land of the Living Our Queen does not dis but lives. She has left the land of the dying that she may enter upon the blesse ings of the Lord in the land of the living. Some of us talk of the poor Queen; even if they. talk of others when they die and call them poor, why poor? No poverty in death, for thoro who love and serve their Saviour. What has the Queen left? She has lek indeed a vast and great Empire; she has left great happiness, for God sent her happiness, she has left all earthly things. You know that she suffered much personal sonor, but now that she isgone, wipe the tears from all eyes. She has now entered into a glory which is eternal. She bis laid down her crown, for, that crown was but an earthly crown, a corruptible drowa. She now has an incorruptible crown. She has left her throne, but she is seated upon a "far better throne, for Christ says, For her. that overcometh will I give to sit upon my throne." Sit there upon the throne of Christ! We should be sorry for ourselves but not for her. Certainly not. God has saved the Quien by His love and by the blood of Christ i Saved her now from trouble and from sorrow from care and anxiety, from temptation and sin. Saved her from all troubles of this world and has called her now, to be at rest with Himself. Saved her from all the really hard work that she did day after day for three score: year-For such rulers that die in the Lord, He says "The spirits of them will rest from their labours and works. Well we may thank the Lord when we think of our Queen. Oh death where js ́thy sting, ob Grave where thy...... victory? Thanks be to God that giveth us the victory, which hathy given her the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ A

The congregation and choir then sang

HYMN, No. 165. Lord, Thou hast been our refuge from

generation de gnothera

O GOD, our hopin ages pást,- Our hope for years to come. Our shelter from the stormy blast.

And our sternal home Beneath the shadow of The Throne

The Saints have dwelt secure Sufficient is Thine Arm alone, And our defence is sure, dis

Before the hills in order stood, Oreath received her frame, From everlasting Thou art Gon To endless years the Sam And yes in Th "Are like an evening. Short as the watch that ends the

Before the ring

Time, like an ovoz:3

Bears all its sons away) They fly forgotten, as a dream Dies at the opening day

Gon, but help in axes pasty. Our hops for years in come,

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