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Auckland Star, Issue 23, 28 January 1901, Page 2

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Sdraped with black cloth, and on theg £& "esk were.white flowers arItisticallv arranged. Mr l<. v\. m« | the "Dead March" at he^osel lot each service. Pastor A. H. ColUns j inteaclied" in the morning from iro , C- s xxxi.. 29: "Many daughters; 1 have done virtuously, but thon excel, | Jest them all." He said under the. Lhatlow of a great sorrow to-day the fempire was in tears. Great Britain j Shan lost her most illustrious mou- | larch, and the world its greatest wo-1 iman Not within the memory of theg Boldest citizen had there been grief bo I 10-enuine, so profound, so widespread « ■is that they shared that day. That was| fprobablv not the fittest time to form la lust, estimate of Queen Victoria's Irei-m. Those who lived close to the ; imountnins did not see them. It iwould require a perspective of years ; |to see this queenly woman aright.; ilhit the briefest survey of the wonIderfnl C 4 years of her illustrious rule ; Imiist convince them of the benefi- i fcence and the wisdom of it. That the fJEnglish State remained unshattered ; iwas due to the fact it was based on] Ithe sanctities of. religion and bound; by the love of the people for; fa wise, sympathetic, and constitution-j |al monarch. It, was not easy to tell fin sad sincerity the sources of her Ipower, but with the full knowledge lof the inadequacy of the outline, he Hmade bold to declare that when the Istory shall be written, it will be | Ifoun'd that she lives in the hearts of llier grateful people because she was P.woimmly, she was motherly, she was | Kqueenlyi and she was good. In her [ilifetim'e Victoria had no more loyal than Free Churchmen, none j Iwho that day more sincerely mourned liver death, and none who would more , a fondly cherish her blessed memory. ; |In the evening Pastor Collins preach-' led from Jeremiah ix., 2.1, the subject \ I being, "Death in the palace."