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+The Project Gutenberg eBook, The After-glow of a Great Reign, by A. F.
+Winnington Ingram
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+Title: The After-glow of a Great Reign
+       Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral
+
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+Author: A. F. Winnington Ingram
+
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+Release Date: January 23, 2007  [eBook #20430]
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+Language: English
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+***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE AFTER-GLOW OF A GREAT REIGN***
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+E-text prepared by Al Haines
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+
+THE AFTERGLOW OF A GREAT REIGN
+
+Four Addresses Delivered in St. Paul's Cathedral
+
+by the
+
+RIGHT REV. A. F. WINNINGTON INGRAM, D.D.
+Bishop Suffragan of Stepney,
+and Canon of St. Paul's Cathedral
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+London
+Wells Gardner, Darton & Co.
+3, Paternoster Buildings, E C
+1901.
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+PAGE
+
+   I.  HER TRUTHFULNESS
+  II.  HER MORAL COURAGE
+ III.  THE RAINBOW ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE
+  IV.  THE LAW OF KINDNESS
+
+
+
+
+The After-glow of a Great Reign.
+
+
+I.
+
+HER TRUTHFULNESS.
+
+"Behold, Thou requirest truth in the inward parts."--_Psalm li. 6._
+
+
+We stand to-day like men who have just watched a great sunset.  On some
+beautiful summer evening we must all of us have watched a sunset, and
+we know how, first of all, we see the great orb slowly decline towards
+the horizon; then comes the sense of coming loss; then it sets amid a
+blaze of glory, and then it is buried, buried for ever so far as that
+day is concerned, to reappear as the leader of a new dawn.  In exactly
+the same way have we for years been watching with loving interest the
+declining years of our Queen, years that declined so slowly towards the
+horizon that we almost persuaded ourselves we should have her with us
+for ever.  Then came, but a few weeks ago, a sudden sense of coming
+loss, then her sun set in a blaze of glory, and yesterday she was
+buried, buried from our sight, to reappear, as we believe, as a bright
+particular star in another world.  We do not grudge her her rest.  Few
+words can express more beautifully the thoughts of thousands than these
+words just put into my hand--
+
+  "Leave her in peace, her time is fully come,
+    Her empire's crown
+    All day she bore, nor asked to lay it down,
+  Now God has called her home.
+
+  Let sights and sounds of earth be all forgot,
+    Her cares and tears
+    She hath endured thro' her allotted years,
+  Now they can touch her not.
+
+  From that fierce light which beats upon a throne
+    Now has she passed
+    Into God's stillness, cool and deep and vast,
+  Let Heaven for earth atone.
+
+  All gifts but one He gave, but kept the best
+    Till now in store;
+    Now He doth add to all He gave before
+  His perfect gift of rest." [1]
+
+But, just as in the sunset a beautiful and tender after-glow remains
+long after the sun has set, so we are gathered to-day in the tender
+after-glow.  And I propose that we should try and gather up one by
+one--to learn ourselves and to tell our children, and the generations
+yet unborn, as some explanation of the marvellous influence which she
+exercised--some of the qualities of the Queen whom we have lost.
+
+And let us first fix our minds upon something which at first sight
+seems so simple, but yet seems to have struck every generation of
+statesmen as a thing almost supernatural--and that is _her marvellous
+truthfulness_.  Said a great statesman, "She is the most perfectly
+truthful being I have ever met."  "Perfect sincerity" is the
+description of another.  Now what that must have meant to England, for
+generation after generation of statesmen to have had at the centre of
+the empire a truthful person, a person who never used intrigue, who
+never was plotting or planning, or working behind the backs of those
+who were responsible to advise her--to have had someone perfectly
+sincere to deal with in the great things of state--that is something
+which must be left for the historian who chronicles the Victorian era
+thoroughly to paint.  No, my friends, our task now is far simpler: it
+is to ask what is the secret of this marvellous truthfulness, can we
+obtain it ourselves, and does God demand it?
+
+Let us take the last question first, and we take it first because it is
+the question directly answered in our text.  The answer is given by
+someone who understood human nature, by someone who had sinned, had
+been forgiven, had been roused out of the conventionalities of life by
+a great experience, who had looked out of the door of his being and had
+seen God.  And he tells us, as the result of his experience, and as the
+basis of his repentance, these words "Behold, Thou requirest truth in
+the inward parts."  It is one thing to say words which, understood in a
+certain sense, are true, it is one thing to avoid direct breaches in
+our action of the law of honour, but it is another thing to be in
+ourselves absolutely sincere, to look up into the eyes of God, as a
+truthful child looks up into the eyes of its mother, to possess our own
+hearts like a flawless gem, with nothing to hide, nothing to keep back,
+and nothing to be ashamed of--that is to have truth in the inward
+parts, and that is what God demands.  It is what He found in Christ,
+one of the things which made Him say time after time, "This is My
+beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased"; He found ever reflecting back
+His Face as He looked down upon Him a perfectly sincere Person, true
+through and through.  That was the secret of His marvellous influence,
+that was why little children came and crept under the ample folds of
+His love, that was why young men came and told Him their secrets, that
+was why everybody, except the bad, felt at home with Him, that was why
+women were at their best with Him, that was why Herod the worldly found
+he could not flatter Him, and Pilate the coward found Him devoid of
+fear; it was because right through, not only in His words and actions,
+but in His being He not only had, but He was, Truth in the inward
+parts.  And it is because our Queen, with her simple and beautiful
+faith in her Saviour, caught from childhood this attribute of her Lord,
+because she worked it out into her character, made it the foundation of
+everything she did--it is for that reason she was able to keep the
+Court pure, and the heart of the country true, to get rid of flattery,
+meanness and intrigue, and to chase away the sycophant and the traitor.
+
+Is it not a lesson which the country needs, is there any nobler
+monument that we could build to her than this--to incorporate into the
+character of the nation the first and great characteristic of her own
+character, and to try and plant in society, in trade, and in Christian
+work, truth in the inward parts?
+
+Take, first, _society_.  It is a cheap sneer, which speaks perpetually
+of the hollowness of so-called society, as if rich people could not
+make and did not make as honest friendships as the poor and middle
+class; but, at the same time, few would deny how much of what would be
+such a good thing is disfigured by display and insincerity, that
+miserable attempting to be thought richer than we are, that pitiable
+struggle to get into a smarter set than happens to be ours, the unreal
+compliments, the insincere expressions, the sometimes hideous
+treachery.  If society were purged from these, it would not be the dull
+thing which some people imagine, just as if this insincerity and
+frivolity and unreality constituted the brightness of it.  No, it is
+these things which constitute the dulness and the stupidity.  If they
+were done away with, then society would be a gathering of true men and
+women, true to themselves, true to one another, and true to God, and
+would be a society which God could bless.
+
+Secondly, take _trade_ and _commerce_.  Speaking in the very centre of
+a city reared upon a basis of honourable commerce, it would be more
+than wicked to refuse to acknowledge the splendid honour and trust on
+which such commerce is based; but when we clergy, not once or twice,
+but constantly, get letters from those employed in firms and in
+business up and down the country, saying, "How can I live a Christian
+life, when I am obliged by my employer to do dishonest things in
+business, when I am told to tell lies, or I shall lose my place?"  When
+we have, even within the last few months, terrible instances of breach
+of trust among those who have been entrusted with the most sacred
+interests by the widow and the orphan, must we not acknowledge that a
+second great monument which we might build to our Queen would be to
+restore to the trade and commerce of the country those principles of
+honour and integrity on which the great firms were built up, and to
+make it true again from end to end of the world that an Englishman's
+word is as good as his bond.
+
+And so, again--would to God we had not to add it!--what a revolution
+would be worked in _Christian work_ itself--Christian work that is
+supposed to demand from everyone who undertakes it perfect
+forgetfulness of self, and entire self-abnegation, to have as its
+workers men and women conspicuous for humility, for thinking of others
+before themselves, for being ready to bear the cross on the way to the
+crown.  And yet can we deny--would God we could!--that in Christian
+work there is an amount of self-advertisement, of jealousy among
+workers, and of insincerity which lowers our cause, and damages the
+progress of Christianity?  Think for a moment what it would be if all
+Christians were really united as Christ meant them to be, if they
+worked with one another, showing a common front to the world, one great
+society, as Christ conceived it, without jealousy, without conceit,
+without pride, but throwing themselves into one magnificent common
+cause.  Why, nothing could stand before the Christian Church if it were
+like that.  Can we not in this coming reign, and the century just
+begun, try and plant in the heart of every Christian worker truth in
+the inward parts?
+
+How are we, then--that comes to be the last question--how are we to
+attain this wonderful gift, the secret of a strong character?
+
+And, first of all, let us be perfectly clear as to the first essential.
+The first essential is _detachment of mind_.  Oh! what cowards we are
+with regard to the opinion of others!  You will find time after time
+men and women, who think themselves free, living under the most
+degrading tyranny of fear as to what will be thought of them by others.
+Not to care at all what anybody thinks is inhuman, but to be bound by a
+kind of trembling terror as to what people will say or think, is a
+degrading slavery.  Bit by bit it creates in the character a habit of
+insincerity; little by little the question is in the heart and in the
+mind, "Will this be popular or not?  Shall I be liked for this?"  We
+speak or do something according to the reflection it will make in the
+thoughts of others.  There may be some here who know that that is their
+temptation, who know that they are not true, that they are never
+themselves, they are always somebody else, or the reflection of the
+mind of somebody else.  Let the example of our truthful Queen speak
+like a trumpet note the old words of the New Testament, "Stand upright
+on thy feet," and be a man.
+
+And, if the first secret is detachment of mind, putting aside
+self-consciousness, which is very often other-people-consciousness, the
+second secret is _an increasing consciousness of God_.  Is it not an
+extraordinary thing that when we are only here for a few fleeting
+years, and everybody around us is hurrying to his grave as fast as he
+can, and when the only person whose opinion matters the least is the
+eternal God, Who goes on generation after generation, and before Whom
+everyone must appear at the last--is it not an extraordinary thing how
+little we think of Him at all?  How often during the past week have you
+thought of God?  To actually acquire a continual sense of His presence,
+to be conscious that His eyes, the eyes of Him Who is from everlasting
+to everlasting, are always fixed upon us, to rise in the morning with
+the feeling, "One more day's work for God," and to go to bed in the
+evening with only one care, "How have we done it?"--that is to
+gradually foster in the character the second great thing which will
+produce truth in the inward parts--a consciousness and love of God.
+
+And then, thirdly, _learn truth like a lesson_.  If we did not learn it
+as the Queen did as a child, let us begin now.  Watch every word.  Are
+we in the habit of boasting, are we in the habit of lying, are we in
+the habit of being insincere?  Not "What did we do?" but "Why did we do
+it?" is the real question.  Why did we give that donation to something?
+For the good of the cause or to see our name in the paper?  Why did we
+do this thing?  Was it done from a true and pure motive?  And if, as we
+try and learn truth like a lesson, step by step, in word and deed, we
+also pray continually, "Give me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right
+spirit within me," then there shall emerge gradually something that
+will last beyond the grave--an image, which is also the pattern, the
+character of the child, slowly won, but which was the prototype to
+start with; and thus we may hope to be sincere, and without offence
+until the day of Christ.
+
+
+
+[1] Lines by the Rev. W. H. Draper, Rector of Adel, Leeds.
+
+
+
+
+II.
+
+HER MORAL COURAGE.
+
+"Why are ye fearful?  O! ye of little faith."--_St. Matthew viii. 26._
+
+
+We saw last Sunday that we were like men who had just watched a great
+sunset, that we were standing, as it were, in the beautiful and tender
+after-glow, which so often follows a beautiful sunset, and we set
+ourselves to try and gather up and meditate upon some of the great
+qualities in the character of her whom we have lost, as some
+explanation, of the influence which made her reign so great.
+
+And we have already contemplated together what it was to have _truth in
+the inward parts_.  We thought over the truthfulness of one, of whom it
+was said by a great statesman, that she was the most truthful being he
+had ever met.  And we saw what a revolution it would work in society,
+in commerce, and in Christian work, if every one of us had that
+downright sincerity and straightforwardness which characterized her.
+
+We now take another quality, and I suppose I shall carry most of you
+with me when I mention, as a second great quality for us to try and
+incorporate into our own characters, and so into the life of the nation
+for the new reign--her moral courage.  She had plenty of physical
+courage.  She was a fearless horsewoman in her youth, she was proud of
+being the daughter of a soldier, she loved her own soldiers and
+sailors, and marked to the very last day of her life their gallant
+deeds with delight.  But there was throughout her life something more
+than physical courage, and that was her moral courage.
+
+Take, first of all, the way in which she bore her own personal
+troubles.  If there was anyone who could say with the Psalmist, "All
+Thy waves and storms have gone over me," it was our late Queen.  What
+the loss of her husband was to her, you may gather from this beautiful
+letter published in Lord Selborne's Life, which she addressed to him
+years afterwards on the loss of his own wife: "To lose the loved
+companion of one's life is losing half one's own existence.  From that
+time everything is different, every event seems to lose its effect; for
+joy, which cannot be shared by those who feel everything with you, is
+no joy, and sorrow is redoubled when it cannot be shared and soothed by
+the one who alone could do so.  No children can replace a wife or a
+husband, may they be ever so good and devoted.  One must bear one's
+burden alone.  That our Heavenly Father may give you strength in this
+heavy affliction, and that your health may not suffer, is the sincere
+prayer of yours most truly, Victoria, R.I." [1]  There could hardly
+have been penned, one would have thought, a more touching or more
+beautiful letter, and penned years after the loss of her husband.  It
+revealed to the heart of the nation what that loss was to her.  It was
+followed in the years afterwards by the loss of children and
+grandchildren.  And the first thing, therefore, that strikes us is
+that, in the midst of this personal sorrow, one stroke following after
+another, with a moral courage which is an example to us all, she never
+gave up her work; without fainting or failing, that huge pile of
+documents, which, in a few days of cessation from her work, mounted
+up--a great statesman tells us--so high, was dealt with, those
+ceaseless interviews, that constant correspondence--were carried
+through up to the last by one who proved herself faithful unto death.
+
+And, as with personal sorrow, so with public anxiety.  It has become
+now common property that, in the dark days of December, 1899, the Queen
+was the one who refused to be depressed in her court; when disaster
+followed disaster it was the Queen who, by her moral courage, kept up
+the spirits of those around her, and who, with a perfect trust in her
+soldiers and sailors, and with an absolute confidence in the justice of
+her cause, went steadily, brightly, and cheerfully on with her work,
+upheld by the moral courage which I put before you and before myself as
+our example for to-day.
+
+And so, once again, her moral courage took the form--a rare form, too,
+in these days--of the courage of her own opinions.  One statesman has
+told us that he never differed from a matured opinion of his Sovereign
+without a great sense of responsibility; another, that when he once
+acted directly against it he found that he was wrong and she was right.
+Another has pointed out how we have lost among the crowned heads of
+Europe, in her personal influence among them, one of the strongest
+influences in Europe for peace and righteousness.  And, therefore, when
+we think to ourselves of the difficulty of acting always
+constitutionally and yet strongly, and to know that our Queen, on all
+hands, is admitted to have done this through a long lifetime, we see a
+third aspect of the moral courage which we have to seek to emulate.
+
+Now, the question is--for these sermons are meant in no sense to be
+mere panegyrics--In what way can we, gathered here on a Sunday
+afternoon, incorporate into our characters something of the moral
+courage which characterized the Queen?
+
+And the first thing which strikes us is this: What a vast field it is
+on which we have to exercise it.  To those who have to see a great deal
+of the sorrows of others, sometimes life simply seems one series of
+undeserved calamities.  Take, for instance, that unhappy man who,
+recently, in this cathedral, shot himself, and by his own act passed
+into the other world.  Look into his history, and you will find nothing
+specially wrong that he had done up to then.  He had just been one of
+the unfortunates amongst us.  He had been for years a steady workman,
+able to keep himself; then his joints got stiff, too stiff for work.
+"I cannot go on living on your husband's earnings, Rose," he said, on
+the morning that he died, and without, no doubt, a proper understanding
+of the guilt of self-murder, by his own act he passed--so he
+thought--out of trouble into rest.  We do well to pray that we
+comfortable people in the world may be pardoned for any carelessness
+and selfishness on our part which makes the world so intolerable to
+many of our fellow creatures.  But still, though we may soften by our
+pity the act which he did, and even for such an one we can only speak
+softly about the dead; though we know full well that some of the best
+men that ever lived, in a fit of insanity, or under depression quite
+impossible for them to control, have passed, by their own hand, out of
+this world, yet we cannot hide from ourselves that self-destruction is
+an act of cowardice, that where men and women break down is not in
+physical courage, but in moral courage, and that those lines penned
+long ago are true to-day:
+
+  "When all the blandishments of life are gone,
+  The coward slinks to death, the brave live on!"
+
+
+But we need not go to such an exceptional occurrence as that to find a
+field for this exercise of moral courage.  Take all those incidents of
+life which happen day after day--the little child snatched from us in
+all its beauty and its innocence: the bright lad shot upon the field of
+battle in a moment, taken away with all his brightness, and his
+laughter, and his merriment; the man who loses in middle life his money
+and has to begin the hard struggle of saving all over again--how are we
+to explain it?  What can we say to light up in any degree so vast a
+problem?  There is, my dear brothers and sisters, I believe, no full
+explanation here, but there is a belief which comforts us, and that is,
+that these calamities of life are all being used for a great purpose;
+that when the Scripture says of God that "He sits as a refiner and
+purifier of silver," it does give us some sort of clue which nerves us
+to bear what we have to bear.  Those who pass from us, pass, we
+believe, into what has been called, "God's great Convalescent Home" in
+another world, but to us who have to suffer, who receive these strokes,
+the suffering is not useless; it is a furnace which has to fashion that
+heavenly tempered thing which we call "moral courage," and to produce
+it any suffering is worth bearing.  Do think over that, you who may be
+going through the furnace now, do remember that you have not lost that
+lad, that child, for ever, that it is only a few years until you see
+him again; but, meanwhile, while he is prepared there, you are being
+prepared here.  The character is everything, and if there can be
+produced in you and in me that moral courage which makes us like our
+Saviour, we shall not be sorry for it in the days to come.
+
+And so, again, take that awful trial which comes at times of having to
+suffer under a false accusation.  I saw someone this week whom I
+believe to be lying under a most terrible accusation which is
+absolutely false.  And, if anyone of you has ever been through that
+terrible trial of suffering under an imputation on your honour, which
+you know to be false, but cannot prove to be false, you realize what a
+field such a state as that presents for moral courage.  What are we to
+say to anyone we see who is under that most terrible trial?  What are
+we to say to ourselves if such a misfortune and trial comes to us?
+Why, we can only say this, and it is enough--that if it is true that a
+general places his bravest soldiers in the hottest part of the battle,
+if it is true that it is only certain strokes which can reach the most
+sensitive parts of our character, if it is true that this very trial
+came to Jesus Christ Himself, and He had it said of Him--"He works
+through Beelzebub, the prince of the devils," "He saved others, Himself
+He cannot save"--then, my brother, the secret of your strange
+punishment is out, it means that it is a special mark of favour, it is
+a Victoria Cross for service, it is Christ coming to you and bringing
+the very cup out of which He drank Himself, and saying, "Are ye able to
+drink of the cup that I drink of, and to be baptized with the baptism
+that I am baptized with?"  Pray hard, pray with all your strength, for
+the moral courage to answer back, "I am able."  "Therefore," as the
+poet so beautifully says:--
+
+  "Therefore gird up thyself, and come to stand
+  Unflinching under the unfaltering hand
+  That waits to prove thee to the uttermost.
+
+  It were not hard to suffer by His hand
+  If thou could see His face; but in the dark!
+  That is the one last trial--be it so;
+  Christ was forsaken, so must thou be too:
+  How couldst thou suffer but in seeming else?
+
+  Thou wilt not see the face, nor feel the hand,
+  Only the cruel crushing of the feet,
+  When, thro' the bitter night, the Lord comes down
+  To tread the wine-press.  Not by sight but faith,
+  Endure, endure; be faithful to the end."
+
+
+And so, once again, looking out upon our ordinary life, what shall we
+need to put backbone into life?  What do we need to give a little more
+strength to it, to enable us to be braver and firmer and stronger?  It
+is just that power of being able to take our own line against others;
+it is just that courage of our opinions; it is consistent with being
+perfectly humble, and ever ready to learn; it implies no conceit, and
+no contempt of others, but it enables this one in the workshop to stand
+up for the faith in which he believes, that one in the drawing-room to
+take a strong moral line when people are sneering at virtue; it nerves
+us to stand by our colours and to cry to the last,
+
+  "Faith of our fathers, living still,
+  We will be true to thee till death."
+
+
+How then are we to gain the secret?  What is the secret of moral
+courage?  And, in answering that question, let us be perfectly fair to
+those who, like the Stoics of old, showed a wonderful endurance with no
+knowledge whatever of Christ, and very little belief in another world;
+let us be perfectly honest and frank with regard to the virtue of those
+in our day who, having lost, to their infinite misfortune, their
+childish faith, still say to themselves: "I will cling to my morality,
+I will try and keep a clean hand and a pure heart"; let us give full
+allowance to what we have heard of this morning in this cathedral--the
+power and the influence of secondary motives, secondary motives allowed
+sometimes to save us for the time before the primary motive comes
+in--but still, making all allowance for that, what is the secret of the
+best moral courage?  It is not the highest moral courage merely to
+endure, it is not the highest moral courage, like the old Roman, just
+to fold our toga round us and die.  There has come a new thing into the
+world, a new kind of moral courage, and that moral courage is full of
+inspiration and full of cheerfulness: it does not merely bear the
+cross, it takes up the cross.  It has in the midst of its own sorrow a
+force and a power which shake the world; it has in the midst of
+personal trouble,
+
+  "A heart at leisure from itself
+  To soothe and sympathize."
+
+
+And what is the secret of that?  And I would dare anyone here, whatever
+may be their private belief, to doubt or to dispute this, that it is
+produced and shown by no one else but those who believe that Jesus is
+with them in the ship; and that when you see some woman going through
+the most terrible trouble, perfectly calm, quiet, brave and cheerful;
+when some man, over whom all the waves and storms are bursting, stands
+there brave, and cheerful, and happy in the hour of trial, it is
+because, unheard by the world, he hears a voice in his ear saying, "Why
+are ye fearful?  O ye of little faith," because, unseen by the world,
+he sees Someone standing with His hand upon the tiller, Someone Whom he
+believes to have supreme power in the last resort over the waves, and
+Who he knows, at exactly the right moment when it is best for him, will
+say the word before which every billow and every storm sinks to rest,
+"Peace be still."
+
+The trial is that Jesus often seems asleep; the trial is that when the
+ship of State labours on in the trough of the waves there seems no
+steersman in view; the trial is that when the Church seems overwhelmed
+by controversy, and about to be buried under its waves, Jesus makes no
+sign; the trial is that Lazarus actually dies and lies dead, and Jesus
+still stays two days in the same place where He was; but the
+magnificent truth which we Christians believe is this--that, though
+apparently asleep, He never is asleep; that He rises from time to time
+and shows His strength; that He rose once and burst into fragments the
+power of death.  They thought He was quite asleep in the grave, but He
+rose with all His power, and broke for every mourner throughout the
+ages that were to come, the power of death for ever.  He rises in the
+midst of the Church, He brings the Church in His own time into a peace
+and calm which seemed at one time impossible; He rises in our own
+personal life, and while the world thinks how that poor man or poor
+woman is overwhelmed with trouble, we know that we are in a wonderful
+and supernatural calm.
+
+And, therefore, the whole question is this: Have we got, or do we
+believe we have got, Jesus in the ship with us?  Do we hear His voice
+saying, "Be of good cheer; it is I, be not afraid?"  As we watch, then,
+the moral courage produced in our Queen by her simple, but strong
+faith, I beg you with me to pray God to grant us a living faith in
+Jesus Christ, which is the secret of strength, and we shall find that
+it will give us moral courage, not of earth, which the world can
+neither give nor take away.
+
+
+
+[1] "Memorials: Personal and Political of the Earl of Selborne."  Vol.
+IV., 161.
+
+
+
+
+III.
+
+THE RAINBOW ROUND ABOUT THE THRONE.
+
+"And there was a rainbow round about the throne."--_Rev. iv. 3._
+
+
+We are taking, you will remember, one by one--picturing ourselves in
+the after-glow which succeeds a great sunset--the qualities which made
+the influence of the Queen that we have lost so great, and we have
+taken them, not as constituting a prolonged panegyric, but as practical
+lessons, and much-needed lessons, for ourselves.  And we first
+contemplated the truthfulness of one of whom it has been said, that she
+was the most truthful being that the speaker--a great statesman--had
+ever met.  Then we traced in trouble, in public anxiety, amid a
+multitude of advisers, the effect and the power of moral courage.  We
+saw that moral courage is only strong enough to stand up against
+overwhelming trouble, when anxieties and difficulties are thick around
+us, if we really believe that our Lord Jesus Christ is with us in the
+ship, and that we hear His voice say to us, "Why are ye so fearful, O
+ye of little faith?"
+
+And yet, as we go on, we become more and more aware that we have not
+yet penetrated to the central secret of her power; nor shall we.  Can
+any man name the real secret of influence, or analyse the strength of
+personality?  But, if we cannot hope to penetrate to the central
+secret, we can, with firm and reverent gaze, gather more than we have
+yet done of how it was that the Court of Queen Victoria was the purest
+Court in the world, and why her influence was so unique among all
+civilized nations.  And, as we take our third glance, we find that
+round her throne, so far as it is possible for human things to copy the
+divine, there was a reflection of what the inspired Seer, with open
+eyes, saw round the throne of God--a rainbow round about the throne.
+
+What do we understand by a rainbow?  Four things, at least.  First, the
+colours of the rainbow, beautiful and various as they are, blend into
+the purest white; secondly, a rainbow, even for the most careless, and
+those most untouched by natural beauty, is one of the most inherently
+attractive things in the world; thirdly--a rainbow is God's appointed
+sign of hope, hope founded on the faithfulness of God: "While the earth
+remaineth, winter and summer, seed time and harvest shall not cease";
+and, fourthly--strange paradox at first, but true--a rainbow is one of
+the most awful things in the world, because it reminds us that what has
+created it is the terrible light which, without the atmosphere, would
+scorch to nothingness; for, while the sun, through the medium of the
+atmosphere, blesses, let its flames, mountains high, touch a planet
+that has drifted from its course, and it scorches to death.
+
+With those four thoughts in our minds, let us first contemplate the
+rainbow round the throne of God.  And we shall now understand that the
+first thing which we can learn is, that there is around the throne of
+God a circle of unblemished purity.  We might have known it; we have
+been told it over and over again.  "God is light, and in Him is no
+darkness at all."  "With the clean thou must be clean, and with the
+holy thou must learn holiness."  We know it, yet where we fail is in
+not realizing the awful bearing which it has upon our lives.  A rainbow
+of perfect purity bars the way of entrance to the throne of God, except
+for the pure.
+
+And then, secondly, to temper, as it were, the awfulness of the first
+revelation, we find that the light of God is brought us through a
+medium; the glory, grace, and truth of God are shown us in the face of
+Jesus Christ.
+
+And, as we follow Him during these coming six weeks, let us remember
+that we are watching the rainbow, that we are watching the medium
+through which the light of God reaches us in all its inherent
+attractiveness.  If the heavenly rainbow is not produced by the light
+shining upon the tears of human penitence, where is hope for the world?
+But because it is so produced, the rainbow round the throne of God wins
+us to God.  "Come unto Me," it seems to signify, "all ye that are weary
+and heavy laden, and I will give you rest."
+
+Thirdly, the rainbow round the throne of God speaks of hope.  Just as
+the husbandman, getting anxious about his harvest, troubled by the
+variableness of the season, looks up on some showery day and sees the
+rainbow in the sky, and it reminds him of the faithfulness of God, and
+His promise that seed time and harvest shall not cease, so the father
+with his son snatched suddenly from him in the battle, so the soul
+waiting so long year after year, for something to come which does not
+come, so the tempted one at home or at work, looks upon the rainbow
+round the throne of God, and that rainbow speaks of God's faithfulness.
+"His righteousness standeth," that is what the rainbow says, "like the
+strong mountains, and His judgments are like the great deep."  And,
+founded on the faithfulness of God, we can hope.
+
+And yet, in spite of the attractiveness and in spite of the hope, the
+rainbow round the throne of God is still awful, for it reminds us of
+what, in our soft age, we are apt to forget--that "our God is a
+consuming fire," that never, from generation to generation, does He
+lower His standard for a moment, that not because in one age or another
+sins are condoned or thought lightly of does He vary for an instant the
+standard of holiness He demands, because He has appointed a day when He
+will judge the world by the standard of that Man Whom He has ordained.
+
+And when, therefore, we turn from the prototype in Heaven to the copy
+of it which we have been lately seeing on earth, we are not surprised
+to find the same mingled elements of attractiveness and awfulness in
+the rainbow which encircled the throne of the empire for three and
+sixty years.
+
+In the first place, we find it a rainbow of unsullied purity.  No one
+could go down, even for a few hours, to preach at the Court, without
+being struck by the goodness of the men, as well as the goodness of the
+women, who surrounded the Queen.  There was an atmosphere of goodness,
+of innocence, of pure home life, which constituted a beautiful rainbow
+round the throne.  It had what we should expect--an attractive power
+throughout the world.  Everyone felt, for that reason, at home with
+their Queen, because they were conscious that, at her home, there were
+just the very qualities, and the very characteristics, of a pure, and
+true, and good home.  It gave an impulse of hope to the whole empire.
+Young mothers in Canada, Australia, and the islands of the sea, mothers
+of grown-up sons and daughters who found it difficult to keep the
+standard high in their own homes, thousands of them, without knowing
+it, were helped and inspired and enlightened by the sight of the
+far-away rainbow round about the throne at the centre of the empire.
+"She did it, she has managed it; in the midst of Court life, in the
+midst of all difficulties and duties, her home is pure: mine shall be
+pure; the Queen, God bless her!"  That was the thought of thousands of
+hearts, and the inspiration of thousands of homes throughout the
+empire.  And yet, who shall deny that there was an awe about it all?
+The man or woman was not born who dared to take a liberty in the
+presence of Queen Victoria.  And can we wonder that the awful purity
+which shone round the throne chased away, as evil birds are chased away
+by the light, all things bad, all things loathsome, and all things even
+questionable!
+
+Our lesson, then, is this: How can we keep in the nation, in the home,
+in the individual soul, a rainbow round the throne; how can we
+incorporate into the national life, and home life, and the individual
+life, the spotless purity that we saw in the Queen whom we have lost?
+
+And, first of all, believe in the possibility of it.  Those men who, in
+their clubs, or before younger men, talk as if virtue and purity were
+impossible; those women who allow into their drawing-rooms, or into the
+society of those they love, men known to be bad, are doing all that
+lies in their power to make the rainbow impossible; they are doing all
+in their power to make it impossible for us to have in the nation, in
+the home, or in the individual life, purity at all.  Those who look out
+upon scenes which disgrace our social system, and our city, and, with a
+shrug of the shoulders, lead people to believe they constitute a
+necessary evil which cannot be faced, are not only unconsciously
+believing in the blasphemy that God made His physical laws so that they
+could not obey His moral laws; they are not only condoning the most
+unblushing cruelty which is going on in our midst to-day, but, also,
+they are not realizing that Jesus Christ came with the very purpose
+among others of proving that the pure life was a possible one.  What is
+the Incarnation but the taking of a human body, with all its passions,
+with all its impulses, a real Human body, and wearing it perfectly
+untarnished to the end?  We must take hold, by meditation and by
+prayer, of the teaching of the Incarnation, that we may live as
+children of the Incarnation.  We were sent into the world with a
+rainbow round our souls.
+
+  "Not in entire forgetfulness,
+  And not in utter nakedness,
+  But trailing clouds of glory, do we come,
+  From God, Who is our home."
+
+And we may be perfectly certain that God does not send us into this
+world with a rainbow round our souls if it is impossible to preserve
+the brightness and the purity of that rainbow in the world to which He
+sent us.
+
+Having realized the possibility of it, the next thing to realize is
+that it is absolutely essential.  No one without that rainbow can pass
+to the throne of God.  There are many here, perhaps, who say, "Ah! it
+is too late to teach me that now; my rainbow, if I ever had one, faded
+from round my brow long ago."  My brother or sister, did we not see
+that a rainbow was made by the light shining upon rain, and do we not
+believe that, if any single one here brings the tears of real
+penitence, that there shall be round him again, or round her, the most
+beautiful rainbow, the rainbow of the light of forgiveness shining upon
+penitence?  During these six weeks, let us then look into our own
+souls, and ask ourselves in the light of God, "Where are we! how about
+our thoughts? how about our words? how about our characters? where is
+the pristine purity of youth? what about our lives today?"  If such
+questions draw us on to our knees, with tears of penitence, to beg God
+again of His mercy to make a rainbow shine around us, there shall still
+be a rainbow round the throne in our hearts.
+
+And, while we look into our own hearts, and remember the rigorous
+demand of God for the pure heart, lastly, let us safeguard our
+children.  "Whoso shall cast a stumbling block in the way of one of
+these little ones, it were better that a millstone were hanged about
+his neck, and that he were drowned in the depths of the sea."  Why?
+Because it robs them of the joy of the rainbow, because that subtle
+suggestion, that careless talk, that stumbling block placed in the way,
+dims the children's view of Heaven, "where their angels do always
+behold the face of our Father Which is in Heaven."  I pray you, then,
+my friends, safeguard the rainbow for your children, as well as for
+yourselves.  Many careful writers, among others the Head Master of
+Haileybury, recommend, as a great safeguard, the teaching to children,
+before knowledge is conveyed to them from impure sources, the simple
+facts of life.  "They are innocent," says the latter writer, "of
+impurity, indescribably eager for wholesome knowledge, perfectly
+trustful of their parents, and, though self-absorbed, are capable of
+being easily trained to a tone of mind to which sympathy is congenial
+and cruelty abhorrent.  Such a description is literally true of the
+great majority of quite young children, and we believe that qualities
+such as these elicited the great saying, 'Of such is the kingdom of
+Heaven.'"  He goes on to say that "such a trustful, innocent frame of
+mind is the very frame of mind to receive from the father and mother
+this simple instruction in the facts of life which would save many a
+fall and many a misery in the days to come; and is far," he says, "from
+sullying the purity of the child's mind."  "People sometimes speak of
+the indescribable beauty of the children's innocence, and insist that
+there is nothing which calls for more constant thanksgiving than their
+influence on mankind, but I will venture to say that no one quite knows
+what it is who has foregone the privilege of being the first to set
+before them the true meaning of life and birth, and the mystery of
+their own being.  Not only do we fail to build up sound knowledge in
+them, but we put away from ourselves the chance of learning something
+that must be divine." [1]  God help us, then, for ourselves, in our
+home, in the nation, and, above all, among the children, to secure that
+in the coming reign, and through the coming century, there may be a
+rainbow round about the throne.
+
+
+
+[1] Rev. E. Lyttelton, "Training of the Young in Laws of Sex," pp. 16,
+17, 109.
+
+
+
+
+IV.
+
+THE LAW OF KINDNESS.
+
+"In her tongue is the law of kindness."--_Prov. xxxi. 26._
+
+
+We have reached our last lesson from the life and character of Queen
+Victoria.  Some will be surprised that this lesson should have been
+kept for the last one, as the kindness and sympathy of the late Queen
+was a proverb among her people.  But, if we come to think of it, it is
+far best to have kept it to the last.  Mere kindness, apart from
+sincerity, apart from moral courage, without the rainbow of purity,
+counts low among the virtues.  We have known kind people, have we not,
+who were weak, who were fickle, who were even treacherous, and there is
+a sad truth in that half-cynical statement that it is the province of
+the wise to remedy the mistakes of the good.  But what captivated the
+whole Empire in the sympathy of Queen Victoria was its strength; that
+one so strong should be so kind; that one so fearless should have so
+much sympathy; that one whose moral standard was so high should be full
+of mercy and gentleness.  It was that which gave a force to those many
+stories which came to us about the visits to the little lonely cottages
+in the Highlands; the telegrams to the women huddled by the pit-mouth
+in their misery; the letter to the mother of the young officer who had
+died for his country--what gave force to it all was its strength, the
+fact that it was no passing impulse, but the deep beating of a true
+mother's heart, that it was the outcome of character; and that, as is
+so beautifully said in this description of the virtuous woman in the
+Book of Proverbs: "In her tongue was the law of kindness."  And when we
+turn from the pattern to the prototype--and never, for a moment, during
+Lent, can we afford to take our eyes off Jesus Christ Himself--when we
+turn from the Queen to the Saviour, in Whom she had so simple and so
+touching a faith, the first thing we find to our comfort is that He,
+too, felt the need of sympathy.  Is there any picture in the whole of
+the New Testament more touching than that which shows us how He goes
+just before His greatest trial to seek sympathy from His followers, how
+He, the Head, the Leader, does not disdain to turn to the very
+followers who trusted in Him for sympathy?  "Couldst thou not watch
+with Me one hour?"  And the picture is so comforting, because it tells
+us that that craving for sympathy, which all of us feel at times, is a
+true human instinct, that there is nothing wrong in it, that one of the
+things that we can do for one another is to be like comrades on a night
+march, when one or another is stricken down, to stand over him, and be
+ready, at any moment, with the cup of sympathy to give him.  And when
+Jesus goes to His own disciples to ask them for sympathy, it is a
+lesson that the need for sympathy is a true need, and the desire for it
+a true instinct of the human heart.
+
+But, then, remember, the sympathy He looks for is the sympathy which He
+always gave, something as tender and gentle as the touch of a good
+surgeon's hand upon a wounded limb, but also something as strong, and
+as firm, and as helpful.  Why sympathy gets discredited, why people
+speak of "a morbid craving for sympathy," is because so much sympathy
+is sympathy of the wrong sort.  There is some sympathy which enervates
+instead of strengthening.  It thinks of itself, it thinks of the
+happiness of having to itself the object of its sympathy, it seeks
+merely to soothe.  But the true sympathy goes far beyond that; the true
+sympathy never thinks of itself at all.  It is simply concentrated upon
+one thought--how can I, in this trial-time, when my brother or my
+sister is stricken down by my side, how can I nerve and strengthen him
+or her to rise to the glorious vocation to which God has called him or
+called her, to strengthen them to be what God would have them be?  And
+that was the sympathy, was it not, that Christ gave perpetually.  It
+was within Him like a spring working by law, a spring which had all the
+regularity, as well as the spontaneity, of some beautiful spring among
+the hills, and it was at the service of every sufferer that came to
+Him; but He never hurt people when He tried to comfort them, because He
+gave them the nerving and strengthening sympathy of love.  And then,
+again, notice how constant it was with Him.  He was never too tired to
+be kind.  He might be disappointed forty-nine times, but the fiftieth
+time found Him perfectly ready still.  Wake Him up from His sleep, and
+He is ready to do an act of mercy.  Place Him, tired, by the well, and
+He is ready there to try and help a sinful soul.  Let Him have a little
+quiet time far away but the multitude find Him out, and then sympathy
+for them is ready to spring to His lips, for "He had compassion on the
+multitude," we are told, and in His tongue was the law of kindness.
+
+Therefore, among the virtues which we set ourselves to acquire during
+Lent, let us set ourselves, with the help of God, and by the grace of
+our Lord Jesus Christ, to see if we cannot acquire in our characters,
+as part of them, this power of sympathy; and, as we test ourselves, one
+by one, by the laws which ought to govern our lives during these six
+weeks, let us test ourselves by that law which more than any other goes
+to the root of our characters--the law of kindness.
+
+We ought to obey this law, first, in our own home lives; secondly, in
+our private charities; and, thirdly, in our public responsibilities.
+And, first of all, have we got such a perpetual spring of sympathy in
+our hearts ready for emergencies, ready for every sufferer, ready for
+every sinner who comes to us?  Have we such a perpetual spring within
+us, ready and accessible for use in our home lives?  It seems that the
+one thing a Christian should never be without is this spring of
+sympathy.  "The water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of
+water springing up to everlasting life."  It is hard to see what good a
+Christian is doing in the world at all if this primary function of his
+Christianity is undischarged.  If he fails in that, he is failing in
+his primary duty.  This, then, is the first question I would press upon
+everyone, as I would press it upon myself: Have I at the disposal of
+the brother who needs me the sympathy he wants, and if not, of what use
+am I in the world?  Think what some lives are in the home circle; all
+the other members of the family have to devote themselves to keeping
+some one in a good humour.  The children are anxious lest the father or
+perhaps the mother should be ill-tempered to-day.  This so-called
+Christian, with the primary duty of being loving, sympathetic,
+considerate, is a creature of moods; father is ill-tempered to-day, and
+the whole house is miserable; or mother, for some reason unexplained to
+the children of the family, for days together allows herself to be
+under a cloud of gloom.  And you see in a family--who has not seen
+it?--an amount of restless, anxious, watching, to try and prevent the
+ill-temper creeping over this one whose temper is of such importance to
+the whole family circle.  And do we not constantly see that most unjust
+tyranny which the ill-tempered or ill-controlled member of the family
+has over the rest?  Is such a one seated among us in this church
+to-day?  Let him go down on his knees, and pray to be forgiven for
+failing in the primary duty of life, the duty of being loving and
+sympathetic at home.  There are many courteous enough and popular
+enough outside, who yet at home utterly break every day of their lives
+the law of kindness.  Let us face it on our knees, if it is so, and
+pray to be forgiven.  It is self that does it, that miserable self
+which stops and chokes, as it were, the spring from working.  We are so
+anxious to have a little more credit or a little more comfort.  And it
+is because our eyes are fixed upon ourselves that we do not see that
+wounded man in front of us, and do not hear his cry for aid.  It is a
+first condition of having sympathy to have a heart "at leisure from
+itself to soothe and sympathize."  There are some whose lives are
+confined to their home circle; some girl, perhaps, who longs to go
+outside, but is thought too young to work for others, and thus she can
+do nothing in her home that seems worthy of being done for her Saviour.
+I would say to such, what an aim to be in the home circle, the most
+unselfish girl there!  What an inspiration to have brothers and sisters
+say what a brother that one is! what a sister that one is! he or she
+never fails us in our hour of need.
+
+And then in our private charity, is not this the secret of the
+worthlessness of so much so-called charity that constantly we give not
+really to help the sufferer, but to save ourselves?  That careless gift
+to the beggar in the street, or to someone who asks us for a gift--is
+it not constantly, not really to help that person, but to ease our own
+minds and consciences?  It is really given to ourselves.  No; what we
+must practise--and God knows it is hard enough in this crowded city and
+in this crowded life we live--what we must practise is getting down by
+our brother's side.  We must save him from the temptation which is a
+curse to him; from the temptation to drink, it may be, that is ruining
+him.  Get down by his character, look at him as Christ would look at
+him.  What does he need?  How can we help him, that poor wounded man
+brought across our path?  We must try and give him, in the name of
+Christ, the very thing he needs, the character which he lacks.
+
+And so, again, with our public responsibilities.  There are three
+figures very prominently before our eyes just now.  There is, first,
+the overcrowded dweller in our slums--poor men and women and boys and
+girls, dwelling as they do nine and ten and even more in a room--that
+room the only place for them to eat and sleep in.  It is astonishing
+how good and pure the boys and girls come out of such homes; but there
+the evil is, and it is not getting better, it is getting worse; every
+year makes it worse.  And as we face it what are we to do?  I do
+sometimes think, my friends, you who come from comfortable homes, you
+who belong to the better class, and are going from this Church to
+beautiful homes of your own, do not realize what it is to those
+brothers and sisters of yours to have only one little room to live in,
+what immorality it must lead to, and does lead to, what terribly
+stunted frames among the children, and what stunted characters.  We
+have been, some of us, for weeks past, considering, in conference, the
+great problem.  One of the best experts, who has studied the question
+for years, has made up his mind that the most hopeful remedy is to have
+from the centre of our great city, to every part of the great
+circumference of London, underground and overground means of transit to
+whirl away from the centre to something which may be called home the
+poor people who work for us.  Others are still in favour of building in
+the slums better buildings at a cheap rate, which, as a Conservative
+paper this week advocated, should be helped by the State.  But the
+point is this: Whatever plan is fixed upon by the experts and those
+responsible, are we ready to rise to it?  Does the law of kindness
+touch us in our municipal work?  Are we prepared, as a great Christian
+city, to rise to the self-sacrifice which it involves?  We believe that
+all these schemes eventually will pay, but undoubtedly at the first
+there may be a call upon the self-sacrifice of Londoners to carry them
+out.  And I would ask you to put it to your consciences whether we
+should gauge the rates only according to their amount.  We have to
+watch carefully whether our public money is wasted, we have to take our
+share in deciding what shall be done, but we have also to consider when
+we are called upon as Christian citizens, to pay a little more towards
+a well-considered scheme to cure one of the most terrible evils in our
+midst, whether the law of kindness does not bid us do so.  Let us send
+this week on to our central Council--by whatever party name they call
+themselves--men who have the time and the brains, and, above all, the
+heart, to deal with these great problems.
+
+Then we have before us prominently one we miscall the Hooligan.  And we
+must freely admit when street ruffianism has reached a certain point,
+there is but one thing to do, and that is to bring in firmly and
+strongly the arm of the law.  But can we as Christian citizens be
+content with the arm of the law?  Is there no other arm, no other law
+that we are bound to try before these young lads grow up indeed
+ruffians who must be dealt with by the law?  Are we so hopeless and
+helpless as to have no other power to bring in upon them?  Can we not
+transform them as boys?  Must we be content to transport them as men?
+And so on Friday there was inaugurated at the Mansion House a scheme
+for dealing with the roughest lads of our town in such a way as
+experience has shown does transform them from the possibility of
+becoming young ruffians into respectable and honest men; in other
+words, to apply to them in their youth the law of kindness, and so make
+it unnecessary to apply to them for their discipline the penalty for
+the breach of any other law throughout their lives.  I ask you whether
+you as Christian citizens cannot rise to a great scheme like this to
+plant down in every little slum some place beside the public-house into
+which the lads so lovable and so full of good and so open to influence,
+if you will only take them in time, may come to in the evening to be
+trained and disciplined and taught, and so be changed that their lives
+may be more worthy of children of God.  You cannot all personally help,
+but we shall be asking some of you young men to give up one evening a
+week and go and work these clubs.  The older ones can give money; we
+want from you your personal help.  Will you give it?
+
+And lastly, we have to-day before us the untaught child.  After all is
+said and done, these schemes for dealing with Hooligans would be
+unnecessary if we really had from the very beginning an efficient
+scheme for teaching the young Christian principles.  You are asked
+today to give your alms to the National Society.  It is a grand thing
+for us of the Church of England to think that we have given for the
+education of the people for the last eighty years more than 10,000
+pounds a week.  And yet the work is failing.  In God's name, because we
+are interested in a new scheme, let us not forsake or starve the old.
+And a liberal contribution to the National Society is a true response
+to the law of kindness.
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+our late Queen--Truth in the inward parts, Moral courage throughout
+life, The rainbow of purity round the throne of the heart, and In the
+tongue the law of kindness.  May God send them home to us and
+incorporate them into the national character, and then we shall have
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