,,the ,,afterglow ,,of ,a ,,great       
,,reign  ,four ,addresses ,delivered in 
,st4 ,paul's ,cathedral  by the  ,,right
 ,,rev4 ,a4 ,f4 ,,winnington ,,ingram1  
,d4,d4 ,bishop ,suffragan of ,stepney1  
and ,canon of ,st4 ,paul's ,cathedral   
,london ,wells ,gardner1 ,darton  ,co4  
#c1 ,paternoster ,buildings1 ,e ,c      
#aija4     ,,contents4   ,,page     ,i4 
,,her ,,truthfulness   ,,ii4  ,,her     
,,moral ,,courage  ,,iii4  ,,the        
,,rainbow ,,round ,,about ,,the ,,throne
   ,,iv4  ,,the ,,law ,,of ,,kindness   
,the ,after-glow of a ,great ,reign4    
,i4  ,,her ,,truthfulness4  ,behold1    
,thou requirest truth in the inward     
parts4--,psalm li4 #f4   ,we stand      
to-day like men who have just watched a 
great sunset4  ,on some beautiful summer
 evening we must all of us have watched 
a sunset1 and we know how1 first of all1
 we see the great orb slowly decline    
towards the horizon2 then comes the     
sense of coming loss2 then it sets amid 
a blaze of glory1 and then it is buried1

 buried for ever so far as that day is  
concerned1 to reappear as the leader of 
a new dawn4  ,in exactly the same way   
have we for years been watching with    
loving interest the declining years of  
our ,queen1 years that declined so      
slowly towards the horizon that we      
almost persuaded ourselves we should    
have her with us for ever4  ,then came1 
but a few weeks ago1 a sudden sense of  
coming loss1 then her sun set in a blaze
 of glory1 and yesterday she was buried1
 buried from our sight1 to reappear1 as 
we believe1 as a bright particular star 
in another world4  ,we do not grudge her
 her rest4  ,few words can express more 
beautifully the thoughts of thousands   
than these words just put into my hand--
    ,leave her in peace1 her time is    
fully come1     ,her empire's crown     
,all day she bore1 nor asked to lay it  
down1   ,now ,god has called her home4  
,let sights and sounds of earth be all  
forgot1     ,her cares and tears        
,she hath endured thro' her allotted    

years1   ,now they can touch her not4   
,from that fierce light which beats upon
 a throne     ,now has she passed       
,into ,god's stillness1 cool and deep   
and vast1   ,let ,heaven for earth      
atone4    ,all gifts but one ,he gave1  
but kept the best     ,till now in      
store2     ,now ,he doth add to all ,he 
gave before   ,his perfect gift of rest4
 #a  ,but1 just as in the sunset a      
beautiful and tender after-glow remains 
long after the sun has set1 so we are   
gathered to-day in the tender           
after-glow4  ,and ,i propose that we    
should try and gather up one by one--to 
learn ourselves and to tell our         
children1 and the generations yet       
unborn1 as some explanation of the      
marvellous influence which she          
exercised--some of the qualities of the 
,queen whom we have lost4  ,and let us  
first fix our minds upon something which
 at first sight seems so simple1 but yet
 seems to have struck every generation  
of statesmen as a thing almost          

supernatural--and that is her marvellous
 truthfulness4  ,said a great statesman1
 ,she is the most perfectly truthful    
being ,i have ever met4  ,perfect       
sincerity is the description of another4
  ,now what that must have meant to     
,england1 for generation after          
generation of statesmen to have had at  
the centre of the empire a truthful     
person1 a person who never used         
intrigue1 who never was plotting or     
planning1 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 paint4
  ,no1 my friends1 our task now is far  
simpler3 it is to ask what is the secret
 of this marvellous truthfulness1 can we
 obtain it ourselves1 and does ,god     
demand it8  ,let us take the last       
question first1 and we take it first    
because it is the question directly     

answered in our text4  ,the answer is   
given by someone who understood human   
nature1 by someone who had sinned1 had  
been forgiven1 had been roused out of   
the conventionalities of life by a great
 experience1 who had looked out of the  
door of his being and had seen ,god4    
,and he tells us1 as the result of his  
experience1 and as the basis of his     
repentance1 these words ,behold1 ,thou  
requirest truth in the inward parts4    
,it is one thing to say words which1    
understood in a certain sense1 are true1
 it is one thing to avoid direct        
breaches in our action of the law of    
honour1 but it is another thing to be in
 ourselves absolutely sincere1 to look  
up into the eyes of ,god1 as a truthful 
child looks up into the eyes of its     
mother1 to possess our own hearts like a
 flawless gem1 with nothing to hide1    
nothing to keep back1 and nothing to be 
ashamed of--that is to have truth in the
 inward parts1 and that is what ,god    
demands4  ,it is what ,he found in      

,christ1 one of the things which made   
,him say time after time1 ,this is ,my  
beloved ,son1 in ,whom ,i am well       
pleased2 ,he found ever reflecting back 
,his ,face as ,he looked down upon ,him 
a perfectly sincere ,person1 true       
through and through4  ,that was the     
secret of ,his marvellous influence1    
that was why little children came and   
crept under the ample folds of ,his     
love1 that was why young men came and   
told ,him their secrets1 that was why   
everybody1 except the bad1 felt at home 
with ,him1 that was why women were at   
their best with ,him1 that was why      
,herod the worldly found he could not   
flatter ,him1 and ,pilate the coward    
found ,him devoid of fear2 it was       
because right through1 not only in ,his 
words and actions1 but in ,his being ,he
 not only had1 but ,he was1 ,truth in   
the inward parts4  ,and it is because   
our ,queen1 with her simple and         
beautiful faith in her ,saviour1 caught 
from childhood this attribute of her    

,lord1 because she worked it out into   
her character1 made it the foundation of
 everything she did--it is for that     
reason she was able to keep the ,court  
pure1 and the heart of the country true1
 to get rid of flattery1 meanness and   
intrigue1 and to chase away the         
sycophant and the traitor4  ,is it not a
 lesson which the country needs1 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 character1 and to try and plant in  
society1 in trade1 and in ,christian    
work1 truth in the inward parts8  ,take1
 first1 society4  ,it is a cheap sneer1 
which speaks perpetually of the         
hollowness of so-called society1 as if  
rich people could not make and did not  
make as honest friendships as the poor  
and middle class2 but1 at the same time1
 few would deny how much of what would  
be such a good thing is disfigured by   
display and insincerity1 that miserable 

attempting to be thought richer than we 
are1 that pitiable struggle to get into 
a smarter set than happens to be ours1  
the unreal compliments1 the insincere   
expressions1 the sometimes hideous      
treachery4  ,if society were purged from
 these1 it would not be the dull thing  
which some people imagine1 just as if   
this insincerity and frivolity and      
unreality constituted the brightness of 
it4  ,no1 it is these things which      
constitute the dulness and the          
stupidity4  ,if they were done away     
with1 then society would be a gathering 
of true men and women1 true to          
themselves1 true to one another1 and    
true to ,god1 and would be a society    
which ,god could bless4  ,secondly1 take
 trade and commerce4  ,speaking in the  
very centre of a city reared upon a     
basis of honourable commerce1 it would  
be more than wicked to refuse to        
acknowledge the splendid honour and     
trust on which such commerce is based2  
but when we clergy1 not once or twice1  

but constantly1 get letters from those  
employed in firms and in business up and
 down the country1 saying1 ,how can ,i  
live a ,christian life1 when ,i am      
obliged by my employer to do dishonest  
things in business1 when ,i am told to  
tell lies1 or ,i shall lose my place8   
,when we have1 even within the last few 
months1 terrible instances of breach of 
trust among those who have been         
entrusted with the most sacred interests
 by the widow and the orphan1 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 up1 and
 to make it true again from end to end  
of the world that an ,englishman's word 
is as good as his bond4  ,and so1       
again--would to ,god we had not to add  
it6--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 self1 and entire       
self-abnegation1 to have as its workers 
men and women conspicuous for humility1 
for thinking of others before           
themselves1 for being ready to bear the 
cross on the way to the crown4  ,and yet
 can we deny--would ,god we could6--that
 in ,christian work there is an amount  
of self-advertisement1 of jealousy among
 workers1 and of insincerity which      
lowers our cause1 and damages the       
progress of ,christianity8  ,think for a
 moment what it would be if all         
,christians were really united as       
,christ meant them to be1 if they worked
 with one another1 showing a common     
front to the world1 one great society1  
as ,christ conceived it1 without        
jealousy1 without conceit1 without      
pride1 but throwing themselves into one 
magnificent common cause4  ,why1 nothing
 could stand before the ,christian      
,church if it were like that4  ,can we  
not in this coming reign1 and the       

century just begun1 try and plant in the
 heart of every ,christian worker truth 
in the inward parts8  ,how are we1      
then--that comes to be the last         
question--how are we to attain this     
wonderful gift1 the secret of a strong  
character8  ,and1 first of all1 let us  
be perfectly clear as to the first      
essential4 ,the first essential is      
detachment of mind4  ,oh6 what cowards  
we are with regard to the opinion of    
others6  ,you will find time after time 
men and women1 who think themselves     
free1 living under the most degrading   
tyranny of fear as to what will be      
thought of them by others4 ,not to care 
at all what anybody thinks is inhuman1  
but to be bound by a kind of trembling  
terror as to what people will say or    
think1 is a degrading slavery4  ,bit by 
bit it creates in the character a habit 
of insincerity2 little by little the    
question is in the heart and in the     
mind1 ,will this be popular or not8     
,shall ,i be liked for this8  ,we speak 

or do something according to the        
reflection it will make in the thoughts 
of others4  ,there may be some here who 
know that that is their temptation1 who 
know that they are not true1 that they  
are never themselves1 they are always   
somebody else1 or the reflection of the 
mind of somebody else4  ,let the example
 of our truthful ,queen speak like a    
trumpet note the old words of the ,new  
,testament1 ,stand upright on thy feet1 
and be a man4  ,and1 if the first secret
 is detachment of mind1 putting aside   
self-consciousness1 which is very often 
other-people-consciousness1 the second  
secret is an increasing consciousness of
 ,god4  ,is it not an extraordinary     
thing that when we are only here for a  
few fleeting years1 and everybody around
 us is hurrying to his grave as fast as 
he can1 and when the only person whose  
opinion matters the least is the eternal
 ,god1 ,who goes on generation after    
generation1 and before ,whom everyone   
must appear at the last--is it not an   

extraordinary thing how little we think 
of ,him at all8  ,how often during the  
past week have you thought of ,god8  ,to
 actually acquire a continual sense of  
,his presence1 to be conscious that ,his
 eyes1 the eyes of ,him ,who is from    
everlasting to everlasting1 are always  
fixed upon us1 to rise in the morning   
with the feeling1 ,one more day's work  
for ,god1 and to go to bed in the       
evening with only one care1 ,how have we
 done it8--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 ,god4
  ,and then1 thirdly1 learn truth like a
 lesson4  ,if we did not learn it as the
 ,queen did as a child1 let us begin    
now4  ,watch every word4  ,are we in the
 habit of boasting1 are we in the habit 
of lying1 are we in the habit of being  
insincere8  ,not ,what did we do8 but   
,why did we do it8 is the real question4
  ,why did we give that donation to     
something8 ,for the good of the cause or

 to see our name in the paper8  ,why did
 we do this thing8  ,was it done from a 
true and pure motive8  ,and if1 as we   
try and learn truth like a lesson1 step 
by step1 in word and deed1 we also pray 
continually1 ,give me a clean heart1 ,o 
,god1 and renew a right spirit within   
me1 then there shall emerge gradually   
something that will last beyond the     
grave--an image1 which is also the      
pattern1 the character of the child1    
slowly won1 but which was the prototype 
to start with2 and thus we may hope to  
be sincere1 and without offence until   
the day of ,christ4    #a ,lines by the 
,rev4 ,w4 ,h4 ,draper1 ,rector of ,adel1
 ,leeds4     ,,ii4  ,,her ,,moral       
,,courage4  ,why are ye fearful8  ,o6 ye
 of little faith4--,st4 ,matthew viii4  
#bf4   ,we saw last ,sunday that we were
 like men who had just watched a great  
sunset1 that we were standing1 as it    
were1 in the beautiful and tender       
after-glow1 which so often follows a    
beautiful sunset1 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 lost1 as  
some explanation1 of the influence which
 made her reign so great4  ,and we have 
already contemplated together what it   
was to have truth in the inward parts4  
,we thought over the truthfulness of    
one1 of whom it was said by a great     
statesman1 that she was the most        
truthful being he had ever met4  ,and we
 saw what a revolution it would work in 
society1 in commerce1 and in ,christian 
work1 if every one of us had that       
downright sincerity and                 
straightforwardness which characterized 
her4  ,we now take another quality1 and 
,i suppose ,i shall carry most of you   
with me when ,i mention1 as a second    
great quality for us to try and         
incorporate into our own characters1 and
 so into the life of the nation for the 
new reign--her moral courage4  ,she had 
plenty of physical courage4  ,she was a 
fearless horsewoman in her youth1 she   

was proud of being the daughter of a    
soldier1 she loved her own soldiers and 
sailors1 and marked to the very last day
 of her life their gallant deeds with   
delight4  ,but there was throughout her 
life something more than physical       
courage1 and that was her moral courage4
  ,take1 first of all1 the way in which 
she bore her own personal troubles4  ,if
 there was anyone who could say with the
 ,psalmist1 ,all ,thy waves and storms  
have gone over me1 it was our late      
,queen4  ,what the loss of her husband  
was to her1 you may gather from this    
beautiful letter published in ,lord     
,selborne's ,life1 which she addressed  
to him years afterwards on the loss of  
his own wife3 ,to lose the loved        
companion of one's life is losing half  
one's own existence4  ,from that time   
everything is different1 every event    
seems to lose its effect2 for joy1 which
 cannot be shared by those who feel     
everything with you1 is no joy1 and     
sorrow is redoubled when it cannot be   

shared and soothed by the one who alone 
could do so4  ,no children can replace a
 wife or a husband1 may they be ever so 
good and devoted4  ,one must bear one's 
burden alone4  ,that our ,heavenly      
,father may give you strength in this   
heavy affliction1 and that your health  
may not suffer1 is the sincere prayer of
 yours most truly1 ,victoria1 ,r4,i4 #a 
,there could hardly have been penned1   
one would have thought1 a more touching 
or more beautiful letter1 and penned    
years after the loss of her husband4    
,it revealed to the heart of the nation 
what that loss was to her4  ,it was     
followed in the years afterwards by the 
loss of children and grandchildren4     
,and the first thing1 therefore1 that   
strikes us is that1 in the midst of this
 personal sorrow1 one stroke following  
after another1 with a moral courage     
which is an example to us all1 she never
 gave up her work2 without fainting or  
failing1 that huge pile of documents1   
which1 in a few days of cessation from  

her work1 mounted up--a great statesman 
tells us--so high1 was dealt with1 those
 ceaseless interviews1 that constant    
correspondence--were carried through up 
to the last by one who proved herself   
faithful unto death4  ,and1 as with     
personal sorrow1 so with public anxiety4
  ,it has become now common property    
that1 in the dark days of ,december1    
#ahii1 the ,queen was the one who       
refused to be depressed in her court2   
when disaster followed disaster it was  
the ,queen who1 by her moral courage1   
kept up the spirits of those around her1
 and who1 with a perfect trust in her   
soldiers and sailors1 and with an       
absolute confidence in the justice of   
her cause1 went steadily1 brightly1 and 
cheerfully on with her work1 upheld by  
the moral courage which ,i put before   
you and before myself as our example for
 to-day4  ,and so1 once again1 her moral
 courage took the form--a rare form1    
too1 in these days--of the courage of   
her own opinions4  ,one statesman has   

told us that he never differed from a   
matured opinion of his ,sovereign       
without a great sense of responsibility2
 another1 that when he once acted       
directly against it he found that he was
 wrong and she was right4 ,another has  
pointed out how we have lost among the  
crowned heads of ,europe1 in her        
personal influence among them1 one of   
the strongest influences in ,europe for 
peace and righteousness4  ,and1         
therefore1 when we think to ourselves of
 the difficulty of acting always        
constitutionally and yet strongly1 and  
to know that our ,queen1 on all hands1  
is admitted to have done this through a 
long lifetime1 we see a third aspect of 
the moral courage which we have to seek 
to emulate4  ,now1 the question is--for 
these sermons are meant in no sense to  
be mere panegyrics--,in what way can we1
 gathered here on a ,sunday afternoon1  
incorporate into our characters         
something of the moral courage which    
characterized the ,queen8  ,and the     

first thing which strikes us is this3   
,what a vast field it is on which we    
have to exercise it4  ,to those who have
 to see a great deal of the sorrows of  
others1 sometimes life simply seems one 
series of undeserved calamities4  ,take1
 for instance1 that unhappy man who1    
recently1 in this cathedral1 shot       
himself1 and by his own act passed into 
the other world4  ,look into his        
history1 and you will find nothing      
specially wrong that he had done up to  
then4  ,he had just been one of the     
unfortunates amongst us4  ,he had been  
for years a steady workman1 able to keep
 himself2 then his joints got stiff1 too
 stiff for work4 ,i cannot go on living 
on your husband's earnings1 ,rose1 he   
said1 on the morning that he died1 and  
without1 no doubt1 a proper             
understanding of the guilt of           
self-murder1 by his own act he          
passed--so he thought--out of trouble   
into rest4  ,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 creatures4  ,but still1 though we
 may soften by our pity the act which he
 did1 and even for such an one we can   
only speak softly about the dead2 though
 we know full well that some of the best
 men that ever lived1 in a fit of       
insanity1 or under depression quite     
impossible for them to control1 have    
passed1 by their own hand1 out of this  
world1 yet we cannot hide from ourselves
 that self-destruction is an act of     
cowardice1 that where men and women     
break down is not in physical courage1  
but in moral courage1 and that those    
lines penned long ago are true to-day3  
,when all the blandishments of life are 
gone1   ,the coward slinks to death1 the
 brave live on6   ,but we need not go to
 such an exceptional occurrence as that 
to find a field for this exercise of    
moral courage4  ,take all those         
incidents of life which happen day after

 day--the little child snatched from us 
in all its beauty and its innocence3 the
 bright lad shot upon the field of      
battle in a moment1 taken away with all 
his brightness1 and his laughter1 and   
his merriment2 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 it8  ,what 
can we say to light up in any degree so 
vast a problem8  ,there is1 my dear     
brothers and sisters1 ,i believe1 no    
full explanation here1 but there is a   
belief which comforts us1 and that is1  
that these calamities of life are all   
being used for a great purpose2 that    
when the ,scripture says of ,god that   
,he sits as a refiner and purifier of   
silver1 it does give us some sort of    
clue which nerves us to bear what we    
have to bear4  ,those who pass from us1 
pass1 we believe1 into what has been    
called1 ,god's great ,convalescent ,home
 in another world1 but to us who have to
 suffer1 who receive these strokes1 the 

suffering is not useless2 it is a       
furnace which has to fashion that       
heavenly tempered thing which we call   
moral courage1 and to produce it any    
suffering is worth bearing4  ,do think  
over that1 you who may be going through 
the furnace now1 do remember that you   
have not lost that lad1 that child1 for 
ever1 that it is only a few years until 
you see him again2 but1 meanwhile1 while
 he is prepared there1 you are being    
prepared here4  ,the character is       
everything1 and if there can be produced
 in you and in me that moral courage    
which makes us like our ,saviour1 we    
shall not be sorry for it in the days to
 come4  ,and so1 again1 take that awful 
trial which comes at times of having to 
suffer under a false accusation4  ,i saw
 someone this week whom ,i believe to be
 lying under a most terrible accusation 
which is absolutely false4  ,and1 if    
anyone of you has ever been through that
 terrible trial of suffering under an   
imputation on your honour1 which you    

know to be false1 but cannot prove to be
 false1 you realize what a field such a 
state as that presents for moral        
courage4  ,what are we to say to anyone 
we see who is under that most terrible  
trial8  ,what are we to say to ourselves
 if such a misfortune and trial comes to
 us8 ,why1 we can only say this1 and it 
is enough--that if it is true that a    
general places his bravest soldiers in  
the hottest part of the battle1 if it is
 true that it is only certain strokes   
which can reach the most sensitive parts
 of our character1 if it is true that   
this very trial came to ,jesus ,christ  
,himself1 and ,he had it said of        
,him--,he works through ,beelzebub1 the 
prince of the devils1 ,he saved others1 
,himself ,he cannot save--then1 my      
brother1 the secret of your strange     
punishment is out1 it means that it is a
 special mark of favour1 it is a        
,victoria ,cross for service1 it is     
,christ coming to you and bringing the  
very cup out of which ,he drank         

,himself1 and saying1 ,are ye able to   
drink of the cup that ,i drink of1 and  
to be baptized with the baptism that ,i 
am baptized with8  ,pray hard1 pray with
 all your strength1 for the moral       
courage to answer back1 ,i am able4     
,therefore1 as the poet so beautifully  
says3--    ,therefore gird up thyself1  
and come to stand   ,unflinching under  
the unfaltering hand   ,that waits to   
prove thee to the uttermost4    ,it were
 not hard to suffer by ,his hand   ,if  
thou could see ,his face2 but in the    
dark6   ,that is the one last trial--be 
it so2   ,christ was forsaken1 so must  
thou be too3   ,how couldst thou suffer 
but in seeming else8    ,thou wilt not  
see the face1 nor feel the hand1   ,only
 the cruel crushing of the feet1        
,when1 thro' the bitter night1 the ,lord
 comes down   ,to tread the wine-press4 
,not by sight but faith1   ,endure1     
endure2 be faithful to the end4   ,and  
so1 once again1 looking out upon our    
ordinary life1 what shall we need to put

 backbone into life8  ,what do we need  
to give a little more strength to it1 to
 enable us to be braver and firmer and  
stronger8  ,it is just that power of    
being able to take our own line against 
others2 it is just that courage of our  
opinions2 it is consistent with being   
perfectly humble1 and ever ready to     
learn2 it implies no conceit1 and no    
contempt of others1 but it enables this 
one in the workshop to stand up for the 
faith in which he believes1 that one in 
the drawing-room to take a strong moral 
line when people are sneering at virtue2
 it nerves us to stand by our colours   
and to cry to the last1    ,faith of our
 fathers1 living still1   ,we will be   
true to thee till death4   ,how then are
 we to gain the secret8  ,what is the   
secret of moral courage8  ,and1 in      
answering that question1 let us be      
perfectly fair to those who1 like the   
,stoics of old1 showed a wonderful      
endurance with no knowledge whatever of 
,christ1 and very little belief in      

another world2 let us be perfectly      
honest and frank with regard to the     
virtue of those in our day who1 having  
lost1 to their infinite misfortune1     
their childish faith1 still say to      
themselves3 ,i will cling to my         
morality1 ,i will try and keep a clean  
hand and a pure heart2 let us give full 
allowance to what we have heard of this 
morning in this cathedral--the power and
 the influence of secondary motives1    
secondary motives allowed sometimes to  
save us for the time before the primary 
motive comes in--but still1 making all  
allowance for that1 what is the secret  
of the best moral courage8  ,it is not  
the highest moral courage merely to     
endure1 it is not the highest moral     
courage1 like the old ,roman1 just to   
fold our toga round us and die4  ,there 
has come a new thing into the world1 a  
new kind of moral courage1 and that     
moral courage is full of inspiration and
 full of cheerfulness3 it does not      
merely bear the cross1 it takes up the  

cross4  ,it has in the midst of its own 
sorrow a force and a power which shake  
the world2 it has in the midst of       
personal trouble1    ,a heart at leisure
 from itself   ,to soothe and           
sympathize4   ,and what is the secret of
 that8  ,and ,i would dare anyone here1 
whatever may be their private belief1 to
 doubt or to dispute this1 that it is   
produced and shown by no one else but   
those who believe that ,jesus is with   
them in the ship2 and that when you see 
some woman going through the most       
terrible trouble1 perfectly calm1 quiet1
 brave and cheerful2 when some man1 over
 whom all the waves and storms are      
bursting1 stands there brave1 and       
cheerful1 and happy in the hour of      
trial1 it is because1 unheard by the    
world1 he hears a voice in his ear      
saying1 ,why are ye fearful8  ,o ye of  
little faith1 because1 unseen by the    
world1 he sees ,someone standing with   
,his hand upon the tiller1 ,someone     
,whom he believes to have supreme power 

in the last resort over the waves1 and  
,who he knows1 at exactly the right     
moment when it is best for him1 will say
 the word before which every billow and 
every storm sinks to rest1 ,peace be    
still4  ,the trial is that ,jesus often 
seems asleep2 the trial is that when the
 ship of ,state labours on in the trough
 of the waves there seems no steersman  
in view2 the trial is that when the     
,church seems overwhelmed by            
controversy1 and about to be buried     
under its waves1 ,jesus makes no sign2  
the trial is that ,lazarus actually dies
 and lies dead1 and ,jesus still stays  
two days in the same place where ,he    
was2 but the magnificent truth which we 
,christians believe is this--that1      
though apparently asleep1 ,he never is  
asleep2 that ,he rises from time to time
 and shows ,his strength2 that ,he rose 
once and burst into fragments the power 
of death4  ,they thought ,he was quite  
asleep in the grave1 but ,he rose with  
all ,his power1 and broke for every     

mourner throughout the ages that were to
 come1 the power of death for ever4  ,he
 rises in the midst of the ,church1 ,he 
brings the ,church in ,his own time into
 a peace and calm which seemed at one   
time impossible2 ,he rises in our own   
personal life1 and while the world      
thinks how that poor man or poor woman  
is overwhelmed with trouble1 we know    
that we are in a wonderful and          
supernatural calm4  ,and1 therefore1 the
 whole question is this3 ,have we got1  
or do we believe we have got1 ,jesus in 
the ship with us8  ,do we hear ,his     
voice saying1 ,be of good cheer2 it is  
,i1 be not afraid8  ,as we watch1 then1 
the moral courage produced in our ,queen
 by her simple1 but strong faith1 ,i beg
 you with me to pray ,god to grant us a 
living faith in ,jesus ,christ1 which is
 the secret of strength1 and we shall   
find that it will give us moral courage1
 not of earth1 which the world can      
neither give nor take away4    #a       
,memorials3 ,personal and ,political of 

the ,earl of ,selborne4  ,vol4 ,,iv41   
#afa4     ,,iii4  ,,the ,,rainbow       
,,round ,,about ,,the ,,throne4  ,and   
there was a rainbow round about the     
throne4--,rev4 iv4 #c4   ,we are taking1
 you will remember1 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 great1 and we have taken them1  
not as constituting a prolonged         
panegyric1 but as practical lessons1 and
 much-needed lessons1 for ourselves4    
,and we first contemplated the          
truthfulness of one of whom it has been 
said1 that she was the most truthful    
being that the speaker--a great         
statesman--had ever met4  ,then we      
traced in trouble1 in public anxiety1   
amid a multitude of advisers1 the effect
 and the power of moral courage4  ,we   
saw that moral courage is only strong   
enough to stand up against overwhelming 
trouble1 when anxieties and difficulties

 are thick around us1 if we really      
believe that our ,lord ,jesus ,christ is
 with us in the ship1 and that we hear  
,his voice say to us1 ,why are ye so    
fearful1 ,o ye of little faith8  ,and   
yet1 as we go on1 we become more and    
more aware that we have not yet         
penetrated to the central secret of her 
power2 nor shall we4  ,can any man name 
the real secret of influence1 or analyse
 the strength of personality8  ,but1 if 
we cannot hope to penetrate to the      
central secret1 we can1 with firm and   
reverent gaze1 gather more than we have 
yet done of how it was that the ,court  
of ,queen ,victoria was the purest      
,court in the world1 and why her        
influence was so unique among all       
civilized nations4  ,and1 as we take our
 third glance1 we find that round her   
throne1 so far as it is possible for    
human things to copy the divine1 there  
was a reflection of what the inspired   
,seer1 with open eyes1 saw round the    
throne of ,god--a rainbow round about   

the throne4  ,what do we understand by a
 rainbow8  ,four things1 at least4      
,first1 the colours of the rainbow1     
beautiful and various as they are1 blend
 into the purest white2 secondly1 a     
rainbow1 even for the most careless1 and
 those most untouched by natural beauty1
 is one of the most inherently          
attractive things in the world2         
thirdly--a rainbow is ,god's appointed  
sign of hope1 hope founded on the       
faithfulness of ,god3 ,while the earth  
remaineth1 winter and summer1 seed time 
and harvest shall not cease2 and1       
fourthly--strange paradox at first1 but 
true--a rainbow is one of the most awful
 things in the world1 because it reminds
 us that what has created it is the     
terrible light which1 without the       
atmosphere1 would scorch to nothingness2
 for1 while the sun1 through the medium 
of the atmosphere1 blesses1 let its     
flames1 mountains high1 touch a planet  
that has drifted from its course1 and it
 scorches to death4  ,with those four   

thoughts in our minds1 let us first     
contemplate the rainbow round the throne
 of ,god4  ,and we shall now understand 
that the first thing which we can learn 
is1 that there is around the throne of  
,god a circle of unblemished purity4    
,we might have known it2 we have been   
told it over and over again4  ,god is   
light1 and in ,him is no darkness at    
all4  ,with the clean thou must be      
clean1 and with the holy thou must learn
 holiness4  ,we know it1 yet where we   
fail is in not realizing the awful      
bearing which it has upon our lives4  ,a
 rainbow of perfect purity bars the way 
of entrance to the throne of ,god1      
except for the pure4  ,and then1        
secondly1 to temper1 as it were1 the    
awfulness of the first revelation1 we   
find that the light of ,god is brought  
us through a medium2 the glory1 grace1  
and truth of ,god are shown us in the   
face of ,jesus ,christ4  ,and1 as we    
follow ,him during these coming six     
weeks1 let us remember that we are      

watching the rainbow1 that we are       
watching the medium through which the   
light of ,god reaches us in all its     
inherent attractiveness4  ,if the       
heavenly rainbow is not produced by the 
light shining upon the tears of human   
penitence1 where is hope for the world8 
,but because it is so produced1 the     
rainbow round the throne of ,god wins us
 to ,god4  ,come unto ,me1 it seems to  
signify1 all ye that are weary and heavy
 laden1 and ,i will give you rest4      
,thirdly1 the rainbow round the throne  
of ,god speaks of hope4  ,just as the   
husbandman1 getting anxious about his   
harvest1 troubled by the variableness of
 the season1 looks up on some showery   
day and sees the rainbow in the sky1 and
 it reminds him of the faithfulness of  
,god1 and ,his promise that seed time   
and harvest shall not cease1 so the     
father with his son snatched suddenly   
from him in the battle1 so the soul     
waiting so long year after year1 for    
something to come which does not come1  

so the tempted one at home or at work1  
looks upon the rainbow round the throne 
of ,god1 and that rainbow speaks of     
,god's faithfulness4 ,his righteousness 
standeth1 that is what the rainbow says1
 like the strong mountains1 and ,his    
judgments are like the great deep4      
,and1 founded on the faithfulness of    
,god1 we can hope4  ,and yet1 in spite  
of the attractiveness and in spite of   
the hope1 the rainbow round the throne  
of ,god is still awful1 for it reminds  
us of what1 in our soft age1 we are apt 
to forget--that our ,god is a consuming 
fire1 that never1 from generation to    
generation1 does ,he lower ,his standard
 for a moment1 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    
demands1 because ,he has appointed a day
 when ,he will judge the world by the   
standard of that ,man ,whom ,he has     
ordained4  ,and when1 therefore1 we turn
 from the prototype in ,heaven to the   

copy of it which we have been lately    
seeing on earth1 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 years4   
,in the first place1 we find it a       
rainbow of unsullied purity4  ,no one   
could go down1 even for a few hours1 to 
preach at the ,court1 without being     
struck by the goodness of the men1 as   
well as the goodness of the women1 who  
surrounded the ,queen4  ,there was an   
atmosphere of goodness1 of innocence1 of
 pure home life1 which constituted a    
beautiful rainbow round the throne4  ,it
 had what we should expect--an          
attractive power throughout the world4  
,everyone felt1 for that reason1 at home
 with their ,queen1 because they were   
conscious that1 at her home1 there were 
just the very qualities1 and the very   
characteristics1 of a pure1 and true1   
and good home4  ,it gave an impulse of  
hope to the whole empire4 ,young mothers

 in ,canada1 ,australia1 and the islands
 of the sea1 mothers of grown-up sons   
and daughters who found it difficult to 
keep the standard high in their own     
homes1 thousands of them1 without       
knowing it1 were helped and inspired and
 enlightened by the sight of the        
far-away rainbow round about the throne 
at the centre of the empire4 ,she did   
it1 she has managed it2 in the midst of 
,court life1 in the midst of all        
difficulties and duties1 her home is    
pure3 mine shall be pure2 the ,queen1   
,god bless her6  ,that was the thought  
of thousands of hearts1 and the         
inspiration of thousands of homes       
throughout the empire4  ,and yet1 who   
shall deny that there was an awe about  
it all8 ,the man or woman was not born  
who dared to take a liberty in the      
presence of ,queen ,victoria4  ,and can 
we wonder that the awful purity which   
shone round the throne chased away1 as  
evil birds are chased away by the light1
 all things bad1 all things loathsome1  

and all things even questionable6  ,our 
lesson1 then1 is this3 ,how can we keep 
in the nation1 in the home1 in the      
individual soul1 a rainbow round the    
throne2 how can we incorporate into the 
national life1 and home life1 and the   
individual life1 the spotless purity    
that we saw in the ,queen whom we have  
lost8  ,and1 first of all1 believe in   
the possibility of it4  ,those men who1 
in their clubs1 or before younger men1  
talk as if virtue and purity were       
impossible2 those women who allow into  
their drawing-rooms1 or into the society
 of those they love1 men known to be    
bad1 are doing all that lies in their   
power to make the rainbow impossible2   
they are doing all in their power to    
make it impossible for us to have in the
 nation1 in the home1 or in the         
individual life1 purity at all4  ,those 
who look out upon scenes which disgrace 
our social system1 and our city1 and1   
with a shrug of the shoulders1 lead     
people to believe they constitute a     

necessary evil which cannot be faced1   
are not only unconsciously believing in 
the blasphemy that ,god made ,his       
physical laws so that they could not    
obey ,his moral laws2 they are not only 
condoning the most unblushing cruelty   
which is going on in our midst to-day1  
but1 also1 they are not realizing that  
,jesus ,christ came with the very       
purpose among others of proving that the
 pure life was a possible one4  ,what is
 the ,incarnation but the taking of a   
human body1 with all its passions1 with 
all its impulses1 a real ,human body1   
and wearing it perfectly untarnished to 
the end8  ,we must take hold1 by        
meditation and by prayer1 of the        
teaching of the ,incarnation1 that we   
may live as children of the             
,incarnation4  ,we were sent into the   
world with a rainbow round our souls4   
,not in entire forgetfulness1   ,and not
 in utter nakedness1   ,but trailing    
clouds of glory1 do we come1   ,from    
,god1 ,who is our home4  ,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 us4  ,having realized the      
possibility of it1 the next thing to    
realize is that it is absolutely        
essential4  ,no one without that rainbow
 can pass to the throne of ,god4  ,there
 are many here1 perhaps1 who say1 ,ah6  
it is too late to teach me that now2 my 
rainbow1 if ,i ever had one1 faded from 
round my brow long ago4  ,my brother or 
sister1 did we not see that a rainbow   
was made by the light shining upon rain1
 and do we not believe that1 if any     
single one here brings the tears of real
 penitence1 that there shall be round   
him again1 or round her1 the most       
beautiful rainbow1 the rainbow of the   
light of forgiveness shining upon       
penitence8  ,during these six weeks1 let
 us then look into our own souls1 and   
ask ourselves in the light of ,god1     

,where are we6 how about our thoughts8  
how about our words8 how about our      
characters8 where is the pristine purity
 of youth8 what about our lives today8  
,if such questions draw us on to our    
knees1 with tears of penitence1 to beg  
,god again of ,his mercy to make a      
rainbow shine around us1 there shall    
still be a rainbow round the throne in  
our hearts4  ,and1 while we look into   
our own hearts1 and remember the        
rigorous demand of ,god for the pure    
heart1 lastly1 let us safeguard our     
children4  ,whoso shall cast a stumbling
 block in the way of one of these little
 ones1 it were better that a millstone  
were hanged about his neck1 and that he 
were drowned in the depths of the sea4  
,why8 ,because it robs them of the joy  
of the rainbow1 because that subtle     
suggestion1 that careless talk1 that    
stumbling block placed in the way1 dims 
the children's view of ,heaven1 where   
their angels do always behold the face  
of our ,father ,which is in ,heaven4  ,i

 pray you1 then1 my friends1 safeguard  
the rainbow for your children1 as well  
as for yourselves4  ,many careful       
writers1 among others the ,head ,master 
of ,haileybury1 recommend1 as a great   
safeguard1 the teaching to children1    
before knowledge is conveyed to them    
from impure sources1 the simple facts of
 life4  ,they are innocent1 says the    
latter writer1 of impurity1             
indescribably eager for wholesome       
knowledge1 perfectly trustful of their  
parents1 and1 though self-absorbed1 are 
capable of being easily trained to a    
tone of mind to which sympathy is       
congenial and cruelty abhorrent4  ,such 
a description is literally true of the  
great majority of quite young children1 
and we believe that qualities such as   
these elicited the great saying1 ',of   
such is the kingdom of ,heaven4'  ,he   
goes on to say that such a trustful1    
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   
come2 and is far1 he says1 from sullying
 the purity of the child's mind4        
,people sometimes speak of the          
indescribable beauty of the children's  
innocence1 and insist that there is     
nothing which calls for more constant   
thanksgiving than their influence on    
mankind1 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 birth1 and the      
mystery of their own being4  ,not only  
do we fail to build up sound knowledge  
in them1 but we put away from ourselves 
the chance of learning something that   
must be divine4 #a  ,god help us1 then1 
for ourselves1 in our home1 in the      
nation1 and1 above all1 among the       
children1 to secure that in the coming  
reign1 and through the coming century1  
there may be a rainbow round about the  
throne4    #a ,rev4 ,e4 ,lyttelton1     

,training of the ,young in ,laws of     
,sex1 pp4 #af1 #ag1 #aji4     ,,iv4     
,,the ,,law ,,of ,,kindness4  ,in her   
tongue is the law of kindness4--,prov4  
xxxi4 #bf4   ,we have reached our last  
lesson from the life and character of   
,queen ,victoria4  ,some will be        
surprised that this lesson should have  
been kept for the last one1 as the      
kindness and sympathy of the late ,queen
 was a proverb among her people4  ,but1 
if we come to think of it1 it is far    
best to have kept it to the last4  ,mere
 kindness1 apart from sincerity1 apart  
from moral courage1 without the rainbow 
of purity1 counts low among the virtues4
  ,we have known kind people1 have we   
not1 who were weak1 who were fickle1 who
 were even treacherous1 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 good4  ,but  
what captivated the whole ,empire in the
 sympathy of ,queen ,victoria was its   
strength2 that one so strong should be  

so kind2 that one so fearless should    
have so much sympathy2 that one whose   
moral standard was so high should be    
full of mercy and gentleness4  ,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 ,highlands2 the telegrams to the    
women huddled by the pit-mouth in their 
misery2 the letter to the mother of the 
young officer who had died for his      
country--what gave force to it all was  
its strength1 the fact that it was no   
passing impulse1 but the deep beating of
 a true mother's heart1 that it was the 
outcome of character2 and that1 as is so
 beautifully said in this description of
 the virtuous woman in the ,book of     
,proverbs3 ,in her tongue was the law of
 kindness4  ,and when we turn from the  
pattern to the prototype--and never1 for
 a moment1 during ,lent1 can we afford  
to take our eyes off ,jesus ,christ     
,himself--when we turn from the ,queen  
to the ,saviour1 in ,whom she had so    

simple and so touching a faith1 the     
first thing we find to our comfort is   
that ,he1 too1 felt the need of         
sympathy4  ,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 followers1  
how ,he1 the ,head1 the ,leader1 does   
not disdain to turn to the very         
followers who trusted in ,him for       
sympathy8  ,couldst thou not watch with 
,me one hour8  ,and the picture is so   
comforting1 because it tells us that    
that craving for sympathy1 which all of 
us feel at times1 is a true human       
instinct1 that there is nothing wrong in
 it1 that one of the things that we can 
do for one another is to be like        
comrades on a night march1 when one or  
another is stricken down1 to stand over 
him1 and be ready1 at any moment1 with  
the cup of sympathy to give him4  ,and  
when ,jesus goes to ,his own disciples  
to ask them for sympathy1 it is a lesson

 that the need for sympathy is a true   
need1 and the desire for it a true      
instinct of the human heart4  ,but1     
then1 remember1 the sympathy ,he looks  
for is the sympathy which ,he always    
gave1 something as tender and gentle as 
the touch of a good surgeon's hand upon 
a wounded limb1 but also something as   
strong1 and as firm1 and as helpful4    
,why sympathy gets discredited1 why     
people speak of a morbid craving for    
sympathy1 is because so much sympathy is
 sympathy of the wrong sort4  ,there is 
some sympathy which enervates instead of
 strengthening4  ,it thinks of itself1  
it thinks of the happiness of having to 
itself the object of its sympathy1 it   
seeks merely to soothe4  ,but the true  
sympathy goes far beyond that2 the true 
sympathy never thinks of itself at all4 
,it is simply concentrated upon one     
thought--how can ,i1 in this trial-time1
 when my brother or my sister is        
stricken down by my side1 how can ,i    
nerve and strengthen him or her to rise 

to the glorious vocation to which ,god  
has called him or called her1 to        
strengthen them to be what ,god would   
have them be8  ,and that was the        
sympathy1 was it not1 that ,christ gave 
perpetually4  ,it was within ,him like a
 spring working by law1 a spring which  
had all the regularity1 as well as the  
spontaneity1 of some beautiful spring   
among the hills1 and it was at the      
service of every sufferer that came to  
,him2 but ,he never hurt people when ,he
 tried to comfort them1 because ,he gave
 them the nerving and strengthening     
sympathy of love4  ,and then1 again1    
notice how constant it was with ,him4   
,he was never too tired to be kind4  ,he
 might be disappointed forty-nine times1
 but the fiftieth time found ,him       
perfectly ready still4  ,wake ,him up   
from ,his sleep1 and ,he is ready to do 
an act of mercy4  ,place ,him1 tired1 by
 the well1 and ,he is ready there to try
 and help a sinful soul4  ,let ,him have
 a little quiet time far away but the   

multitude find ,him out1 and then       
sympathy for them is ready to spring to 
,his lips1 for ,he had compassion on the
 multitude1 we are told1 and in ,his    
tongue was the law of kindness4         
,therefore1 among the virtues which we  
set ourselves to acquire during ,lent1  
let us set ourselves1 with the help of  
,god1 and by the grace of our ,lord     
,jesus ,christ1 to see if we cannot     
acquire in our characters1 as part of   
them1 this power of sympathy2 and1 as we
 test ourselves1 one by one1 by the laws
 which ought to govern our lives during 
these six weeks1 let us test ourselves  
by that law which more than any other   
goes to the root of our characters--the 
law of kindness4  ,we ought to obey this
 law1 first1 in our own home lives2     
secondly1 in our private charities2 and1
 thirdly1 in our public                 
responsibilities4 ,and1 first of all1   
have we got such a perpetual spring of  
sympathy in our hearts ready for        
emergencies1 ready for every sufferer1  

ready for every sinner who comes to us8 
,have we such a perpetual spring within 
us1 ready and accessible for use in our 
home lives8  ,it seems that the one     
thing a ,christian should never be      
without is this spring of sympathy4     
,the water that ,i shall give him shall 
be in him a well of water springing up  
to everlasting life4  ,it is hard to see
 what good a ,christian is doing in the 
world at all if this primary function of
 his ,christianity is undischarged4  ,if
 he fails in that1 he is failing in his 
primary duty4  ,this1 then1 is the first
 question ,i would press upon everyone1 
as ,i would press it upon myself3 ,have 
,i at the disposal of the brother who   
needs me the sympathy he wants1 and if  
not1 of what use am ,i in the world8    
,think what some lives are in the home  
circle2 all the other members of the    
family have to devote themselves to     
keeping some one in a good humour4  ,the
 children are anxious lest the father or
 perhaps the mother should be           

ill-tempered to-day4  ,this so-called   
,christian1 with the primary duty of    
being loving1 sympathetic1 considerate1 
is a creature of moods2 father is       
ill-tempered to-day1 and the whole house
 is miserable2 or mother1 for some      
reason unexplained to the children of   
the family1 for days together allows    
herself to be under a cloud of gloom4   
,and you see in a family--who has not   
seen it8--an amount of restless1        
anxious1 watching1 to try and prevent   
the ill-temper creeping over this one   
whose temper is of such importance to   
the whole family circle4  ,and do we not
 constantly see that most unjust tyranny
 which the ill-tempered or              
ill-controlled member of the family has 
over the rest8  ,is such a one seated   
among us in this church to-day8  ,let   
him go down on his knees1 and pray to be
 forgiven for failing in the primary    
duty of life1 the duty of being loving  
and sympathetic at home4  ,there are    
many courteous enough and popular enough

 outside1 who yet at home utterly break 
every day of their lives the law of     
kindness4  ,let us face it on our knees1
 if it is so1 and pray to be forgiven4  
,it is self that does it1 that miserable
 self which stops and chokes1 as it     
were1 the spring from working4  ,we are 
so anxious to have a little more credit 
or a little more comfort4  ,and it is   
because our eyes are fixed upon         
ourselves that we do not see that       
wounded man in front of us1 and do not  
hear his cry for aid4  ,it is a first   
condition of having sympathy to have a  
heart at leisure from itself to soothe  
and sympathize4  ,there are some whose  
lives are confined to their home circle2
 some girl1 perhaps1 who longs to go    
outside1 but is thought too young to    
work for others1 and thus she can do    
nothing in her home that seems worthy of
 being done for her ,saviour4 ,i would  
say to such1 what an aim to be in the   
home circle1 the most unselfish girl    
there6  ,what an inspiration to have    

brothers and sisters say what a brother 
that one is6 what a sister that one is6 
he or she never fails us in our hour of 
need4  ,and then in our private charity1
 is not this the secret of the          
worthlessness of so much so-called      
charity that constantly we give not     
really to help the sufferer1 but to save
 ourselves8  ,that careless gift to the 
beggar in the street1 or to someone who 
asks us for a gift--is it not           
constantly1 not really to help that     
person1 but to ease our own minds and   
consciences8  ,it is really given to    
ourselves4  ,no2 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 side4  ,we must save him from 
the temptation which is a curse to him2 
from the temptation to drink1 it may be1
 that is ruining him4  ,get down by his 
character1 look at him as ,christ would 
look at him4  ,what does he need8  ,how 

can we help him1 that poor wounded man  
brought across our path8  ,we must try  
and give him1 in the name of ,christ1   
the very thing he needs1 the character  
which he lacks4  ,and so1 again1 with   
our public responsibilities4  ,there are
 three figures very prominently before  
our eyes just now4  ,there is1 first1   
the overcrowded dweller in our          
slums--poor men and women and boys and  
girls1 dwelling as they do nine and ten 
and even more in a room--that room the  
only place for them to eat and sleep in4
  ,it is astonishing how good and pure  
the boys and girls come out of such     
homes2 but there the evil is1 and it is 
not getting better1 it is getting worse2
 every year makes it worse4  ,and as we 
face it what are we to do8  ,i do       
sometimes think1 my friends1 you who    
come from comfortable homes1 you who    
belong to the better class1 and are     
going from this ,church to beautiful    
homes of your own1 do not realize what  
it is to those brothers and sisters of  

yours to have only one little room to   
live in1 what immorality it must lead   
to1 and does lead to1 what terribly     
stunted frames among the children1 and  
what stunted characters4  ,we have been1
 some of us1 for weeks past1            
considering1 in conference1 the great   
problem4  ,one of the best experts1 who 
has studied the question for years1 has 
made up his mind that the most hopeful  
remedy is to have from the centre of our
 great city1 to every part of the great 
circumference of ,london1 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 us4  ,others are still in      
favour of building in the slums better  
buildings at a cheap rate1 which1 as a  
,conservative paper this week advocated1
 should be helped by the ,state4  ,but  
the point is this3 ,whatever plan is    
fixed upon by the experts and those     
responsible1 are we ready to rise to it8
  ,does the law of kindness touch us in 

our municipal work8  ,are we prepared1  
as a great ,christian city1 to rise to  
the self-sacrifice which it involves8   
,we believe that all these schemes      
eventually will pay1 but undoubtedly at 
the first there may be a call upon the  
self-sacrifice of ,londoners to carry   
them out4  ,and ,i would ask you to put 
it to your consciences whether we should
 gauge the rates only according to their
 amount4  ,we have to watch carefully   
whether our public money is wasted1 we  
have to take our share in deciding what 
shall be done1 but we have also to      
consider when we are called upon as     
,christian citizens1 to pay a little    
more towards a well-considered scheme to
 cure one of the most terrible evils in 
our midst1 whether the law of kindness  
does not bid us do so4  ,let us send    
this week on to our central ,council--by
 whatever party name they call          
themselves--men who have the time and   
the brains1 and1 above all1 the heart1  
to deal with these great problems4      

,then we have before us prominently one 
we miscall the ,hooligan4  ,and we must 
freely admit when street ruffianism has 
reached a certain point1 there is but   
one thing to do1 and that is to bring in
 firmly and strongly the arm of the law4
  ,but can we as ,christian citizens be 
content with the arm of the law8  ,is   
there no other arm1 no other law that we
 are bound to try before these young    
lads grow up indeed ruffians who must be
 dealt with by the law8  ,are we so     
hopeless and helpless as to have no     
other power to bring in upon them8  ,can
 we not transform them as boys8  ,must  
we be content to transport them as men8 
,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 men2 in     
other words1 to apply to them in their  
youth the law of kindness1 and so make  

it unnecessary to apply to them for     
their discipline the penalty for the    
breach of any other law throughout their
 lives4  ,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 influence1 if you will only take them
 in time1 may come to in the evening to 
be trained and disciplined and taught1  
and so be changed that their lives may  
be more worthy of children of ,god4     
,you cannot all personally help1 but we 
shall be asking some of you young men to
 give up one evening a week and go and  
work these clubs4  ,the older ones can  
give money2 we want from you your       
personal help4  ,will you give it8  ,and
 lastly1 we have to-day before us the   
untaught child4  ,after all is said and 
done1 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 principles4  ,you are asked  
today to give your alms to the ,national
 ,society4  ,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 #aj1jjj pounds a week4  ,and yet   
the work is failing4  ,in ,god's name1  
because we are interested in a new      
scheme1 let us not forsake or starve the
 old4 ,and a liberal contribution to the
 ,national ,society is a true response  
to the law of kindness4  ,let us take   
home1 then1 these four great lessons    
from the character of our late          
,queen--,truth in the inward parts1     
,moral courage throughout life1 ,the    
rainbow of purity round the throne of   
the heart1 and ,in the tongue the law of
 kindness4  ,may ,god send them home to 
us and incorporate them into the        
national character1 and then we shall   
have with us for years to come the      
after-glow of a great reign4