FRIGHTENED BY QUEEN

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 112, 7 November 1935, Page 27

FRIGHTENED BY QUEEN

The Bishop of London recalls in a recent Diocesan Leaflet how he used to stand by Queen Victoria's chair and tell her stories. . . • ■ .

Writing' of the books he took with him on holiday this year, he says, "I began with Benson's 'Queen Victoria'—a truly notable performance— which brought before me again so clearly that great little Queen, before whom I had the privilege to preach the last three years of her life, and by whose chair I had to stand each evening to tell her stories." He adds: "How frightened I was the .first

time, when I looked across the chapel and saw what, at first sight, was rather

a cross-looking face just opposite me, facing the pulpit; but when I found that this apparent crossness was simply caused by defective eyesight and concealed the kindest heart in tKe world, I thoroughly enjoyed the evening of my first visit, and looked' forward to my next two. \".- ':-. r ';-'.':■.

"'I have thought a great deaf at»ut, you this year,' said the 'kind voice on! my second visit, as she must have heard, though I did not know it, that I had had rather a troubled year." The bishop adds that he was always glad that his "Afterglow of a great reign"—consisting, of four sermons preached in .St.-Paul's, after 'Queen Victoria's death-rtgave "a good deal of pleasure in the highest quarters."

Woods' Great I'eppcrmint Cure: First aid for Coiighs. Colds.; Influenza.—Advt.