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 Ml iililiii niifctoLiinnl 
 
 A MOTHER IN ISRAEL 
 
 A SERMON 
 
 PiiBA€»iBD IN St. James' CATHSDitAi, 
 Toronto 
 
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 In MEMomy OF Queen Victoria 
 
 27TH January, 1901. 
 
 i H« CHUROf: X!¥ ENGLAND i>UBLISUlNC CO., Limitbb. 
 
 1901. 
 
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A^MOTHER IN ISRAEL 
 
 V SERMON 
 
 Preached i\ St. James' Cathedkai 
 Toronto 
 
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 Ix Memory of Quekx Vr tor 
 
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 27TH January, 1901. 
 
 The church OF KNciI.AND PUIil.ISHlN 
 
 1901. 
 
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IN • PIAM • MEMORIAM 
 
 VICTORIAE 
 
 RKdFNAE • I.MPKKATRICIS 
 DILECTISSI AE 
 
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 Some who heard these words have expressed a wish to 
 have them in permanent form in memory of an occasion 
 whicli is, and cannot but remain, unique in the lives of 
 all of us. I have, therefore, had them printed, though 
 no one can feel more strongly < nan I do, how entirely 
 inade({uate they are. If &y\y ^ ^nce is left after expenses 
 are paid, it will be given towards the purchase of a por- 
 trait of the Queen to be placed in the school-house. 
 
 E. A. W. 
 
A MOTHER IN ISRAEL 
 
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 "A mother in Israel." -Judges v. 7. 
 
 /^NE thought to-day finds place in ti ninds of 
 ^-^ all the millions of the Empire. It is the 
 preacher's duty to try to give some kind of expres- 
 sion to that thought — not with any poor attempt 
 at flights of rhetoric, but in the simplest words at 
 his command, words that befit the presence chamber 
 of the King of king" and are not out of keep* jg 
 with the solemn mystery of death, whose summons 
 no one — prince or peasant, subject or sovereign — 
 may refuse to obey. 
 
 A reign, which hasbeen not only the longest, but al- 
 so in many respects the most glorious, in our nation's 
 life, has, in the providence of God, reached its end. 
 At such a time the mind naturally, almost inevitably, 
 
6 A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 
 
 turns to the recordp of the past for parallels. If 
 we turn to-day, what is it that we see ? It is that 
 history presents no parallels, but only contrasts. 
 
 Three Queens in days gone by have sat in lonely 
 splendour on the sovereign throne of England. Of 
 two of them it may be said that their reigns were 
 like the reign that has just closed, in that they 
 were great and distinguished epochs in the history of 
 our literature. And one saw that great expansion 
 of English power, which, in the natural process of 
 events, has led to the Imperialism of the Victorian 
 age. 
 
 The contrasts, however, are far more marked than 
 the resemblances. The reign of Mary was a time of 
 chaos and darkness, both in Church and State. Queen 
 Anne was a good and simple soul, but she hardly rose 
 above the commonplace. And when we think of " the 
 spacious days of great Elizabeth," we are struck at 
 once by the difference in character between her for 
 whom we mourn to-day and the greatest of the 
 three Queens who have preceded her. You have 
 only to read of the utter loneliness of Queen Eliza- 
 
A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 7 
 
 beth's last weeks on earth, and the unmoved cold- 
 ness of her people when she died to see the indica- 
 tions of the contrast of which I speak. I am sure 
 that it is literally true to say that our experience 
 in our Queen has been unique in the history not 
 only of England, but of the world. 
 
 A distant likeness is hinted at by the words with 
 which I began — words which suggest more than 
 any others that I could think of in the whole Bible 
 that deep sense of intimate personal loss which 
 every one of us is feeling to-day, a sense which ha.-> 
 kept the hymns we have sung, couched though they 
 are in the strongest personal terms, from being in 
 any way unreal to us. She for whom we mourn 
 was indeed, like Deborah, a mother in Israel. 
 
 She was called, like Deborah, to guide the den- 
 tin ies of her peopl(3 at a critical time in the nation's 
 life, when the pjlitical horizon was dark with dan- 
 gers that loomed upon it, when the bands of loyalty 
 to the throne were in some quarters strained almost 
 to breaking, and when, in Canada itself, there was 
 a condition of things which bordered upon civil 
 
8 
 
 A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 
 
 war, if not upon open rebellion. Contrast all this 
 with what we witnessed in the year of the Diamond 
 Jubilee, and with all that we have been reading and 
 hearing about during the last week. There can be 
 no doubt whatever that this mighty change is due 
 in very large measure, to the unique personality of 
 the Sovereign whom we have lost. 
 
 There were those, I doubt not, in 1837, who 
 feared disaster for the ship of state, because there 
 was a woman's hand upon the helm. To-day we 
 are thanking God that through all these sixty-four 
 years the most exalted throne in Christendom has 
 been occupied by one who has exerted just that 
 influence which only a good and noble woman can 
 exert. 
 
 And what we are feeling and expressing here, in 
 our ancestral tongue, and as Christian men and wo- 
 men, is felt in every corner of the Empire, from the 
 lands of the palm to the lands of the pine, and is ex- 
 pressed in many and diverse tongues by Christians 
 of every name and by millions who worship not the 
 one true God. 
 
A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 
 
 9 
 
 Nor is it only within the limits of the Empire 
 that these profound emotions have been stirred 
 In every country in Europe and in the United States 
 it is the same, and few more touching messages 
 have flashed along the wires within the last few days 
 than that which told us of the aged Pope — himself on 
 the verge of eternity — hearing of the Queen's death 
 and, without a word, falling upon his knees to pray 
 for one whose throne was and is an enduring protest 
 against his own jurisdiction on British soil. 
 
 And when we ask ourselves what all this reallv 
 means, there can be but one answer. It is a tribute 
 to the majesty of goodness, and such a tribute as 
 ought to forbid the most cynical to despair of human 
 nature. 
 
 This is not the time or place to discuss the politi- 
 cal significance of the Queen's life ; it is enough to 
 repeat the well-known fact, to which additional 
 testimony was given in the House of Lords, on Fri- 
 day last, that she possessed a remarkable faculty for 
 the affairs of State, and that her personality counted 
 enormously in the elements which make for the 
 continuance of the peace of Europe. 
 
10 A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 
 
 But it is not her political influence, it is not the 
 fact that under her beneficent rule, there has been 
 an expansion of the Empire, greater than any that 
 men have seen before — it is nothing of this kind that 
 has made the motherless peoples mourn with a deeply 
 felt, widespread grief, such as has never been in all 
 the history of the world. What is it then ? 
 
 If I had to sum up in a single phrase the secret 
 of Queen Victoria's life, I should do it in the words 
 which a bold monk addressed to a Pope of Rome in 
 the middle of the 12th century, when he told him 
 that hiselevation meant " nondomintum,sed officium," 
 not sovereignty, but duty. A paramount sense of 
 duty was one of the foremost features in the 
 Queen's character, a sense of duty to her subjects 
 which had its origin and its inspiration in her 
 sense of duty to her God. 
 
 This high sense of duty kept her from yielding 
 to a temptation, before which many in far less exalted 
 positions have fallen. I mean the temptation to 
 use her influence and power for personal and selfish 
 ends. If ever man or woman acted up to the great 
 
A MOTHER IN ISRAEi.. 
 
 11 
 
 French motto which tells us thuo noblesse oblige, that 
 did our Queen. Generous in the original and secon- 
 dary sense of that word, of exalted lineage and of 
 selfless character, she exhibited (as we know so 
 well) that tender consideration for others, that 
 gracious and delicate sympathy which made and kept 
 the hearts of her people irrevocably hers. That 
 she entered into their joys and sorrows, that she 
 was grateful for their sympathy in her own, that 
 she was, in a word, their true /r/V«</ -these are the 
 commonplaces of the last sad days. It well befit- 
 ted the transparent simplicity of her character, 
 that the Prince, who, two or three hours before she 
 died, had announced, " The life of our beloved 
 Queen is in the greatest danger," should announce 
 her death by aying not " the Queen," but " My 
 beloved mother has passed away." It is just a 
 .glimpse into the character of that home circle of 
 which she was the centre, and the influence of 
 which h;^ done so much to keep up the standard 
 of English family life. 
 
 It seems strange (as we look back upon it) that 
 
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 A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 
 
 it was in this sphere, where all her highest and 
 tenderest afiections were concentrated, that she suf- 
 ered most She knew only a little more than twenty 
 years of wedded happiness; then followed nearly 
 forty years of widowhood : of her nine children 
 three have gone before her beyond the veil. Truly 
 her character was chastened and purified in the 
 fiery furnace of affliction, and from it all she came 
 out purer gold. Well did the great Laureate of 
 her reign pray in the thought of her great sorrow, 
 
 ^ " May all love, 
 
 '• His love unseen, but felt, o'ershadow thee ; 
 '* The love of all thy sons encompass thee, 
 •' The love of all thy daughters cherish thee, 
 •• The love of all thy people comfort thee, 
 " Till God's love set thee at his side again." 
 
 " Till God's love set thee at his side again" — 
 
 The day to which he looked forward has come at 
 
 last, — to our great and irreparable loss, but (as we 
 
 hope with sure and certain hope) to her everlasting 
 
 gain. 
 She has done justly, she has loved mercy, she 
 
A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. IS 
 
 has walked humbly with he:* Qod, and over all that 
 could die of her will be said the same words of 
 hope that are said over the humblest of her sub- 
 jects. The good Queen is gone. She has laid 
 aside the outward signs of earthly majesty, and 
 passed into the presence of the King of kings. 
 The Queen is dead indeed ; the Lord God has said : 
 " Remove the diadem, and take off the crown." 
 But that which was most queenly because most truly 
 womanly, the undying spirit, majestic wit.li a ma- 
 jesty not of this world, but as created in the image 
 of God, royal with a royalty not of earth, bu*. ?i3 of a 
 redeemed daughter of the eternal King, has en- 
 tered — as each of us must enter — into the Paradise 
 of God. 
 
 There she rests from her labours to preserve in 
 wealth, peace and godliness, God's people who were 
 for a space committed to her charge. There, too, 
 she await8,as each of us must await, "the resurrection 
 the dead and the life of the world to come," for which 
 (as we know) she looked with strong faith, and 
 earnest hope, trusting in the Saviour, whose she is 
 and whom she strove to serve. 
 
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14 A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 
 
 The good Queen is gene, and the worn out frame 
 in which her untiring 8piritdwelt,and which her peo- 
 ple loved to look upon and ever greeted with loyal 
 and loud acclaim, must now with all honour, and 
 magnificent respect be committed to the dust from 
 which it came. But grander far than all the gor- 
 geous trappings of majestic woe, and all the pomp 
 and pageantry with which it is fitting that she, who 
 but yesterday sat on the most ancient throne of 
 Europe, should be laid amid the historic glories 
 of the past, — ^grander far than all of this are the 
 tears that a nation sheds, for they well up from 
 hearts that know and feel that to speak of /ter as 
 of blessed va&moty is no formal, empty, unmeaning 
 phrase, but true, utterly true, because she was in 
 deed a mother in our Israel. 
 
 The good Queen is gone. She has died in a good 
 old age, and another reigns in her sfcead. And we 
 are looking forward, not without some fears and 
 misgivings, yet with chastened hope, to the new 
 century, with which the new reign begins. God 
 grant that in it we may learn to practise the les- 
 
A MOTHER IN ISRAEL. 15 
 
 son which she had learnt ao well, — that it is right- 
 eousness alone which exalteth a nation, and that 
 blessed is that people only which has the Lord for its 
 God. 
 
 The earnest prayers that have been offered in 
 every quarter of the globe during the last sixty- 
 four years have been most graciously answered. 
 Hencef orth we must offer these same petitions for 
 him who in God's Providence now reigns in her 
 stead. His is no light and easy task ; the difficul- 
 ties and dangers of his position must be many in- 
 deed, and his responsibility is heavy in very truth. 
 May God give him grace to bear himself in his 
 high pl&ce, as did the best of all that have gone be- 
 for' him. Let our supplications for him be fervent 
 and sincere, as we learn by slow degrees to shape 
 our lips to the unwonted name, which they almost 
 refuse to utter, and with the same earnestness 
 with which we have prayed before to pray now 
 
 GOD SAVE THE KING.