BROAD STREET WESLEYAN CHURCH.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 6917, 28 January 1901, Page 2

BROAD STREET WESLEYAN CHURCH.

memorial services in the above church in connection with the death of Queen Victoria were largely attended. In the morning the Rev. S. Lawry preached a most impressive sermon, taking for his text the 31st Chapter of Proverbs 26th to 31st verse, "She opened her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is the law of kindness; she looketh woll to the ways of her household and eateth not the bread of idleness." The preacherjeferred to the splendid progress made in various aspects of life during her long reign. In her public and private life Queen "Victoria had proved herself a sincere follower of all that was good and I pious, and this gave her the warm place i which she held in the estimation of her people. Other women might have been more m the immediate presence of good on earth, butin the blaze of publicityand the occupancy of her pre-eminent position she had adorned the doctrine of God and her many virtues had been prominent. She cheered the sorrowing and was never slow to proclaim her gratitude for all the privileges of life. Great interest was taken by our late Queen in her Bible class, composed.of her attendants' children which she personally taught at Buckingham Palace. On one occasion two members of the Royal Band, who had been suspended were reported to Her Majesty for refusing to attend rehearsals on the Lord's Day Her Majesty caused them to be reinstated and the band was afterwards ordered to discontinue practice on the-Lord's Day Always kind: and considerate with memS « kC- fcjWlwU. sympathising trials, even remembering their birth S,Tbi UtleS,. 1°yal J *»V constitution and her people, aad always making her official duties as Queen jier first gcare W& Jf 6", 'JiMftW 1 P^sure. When the duties of »Jlfostering the government of the Emph-e'nad devolved upon \ictona she recognised the great reiponsibuity so suddenly imposedupoa her, and had sajd " I should feel mysdf utterly oppressed by the burdens, were Inot sustained by the hope that Divine Providence, whicL has ca&d me to this *ork, will give me strength for the pb.

formance of it, andthat I shall find in the purity of my intentions and in my zeal for the public welfare that support and those resources which usually beK^ig to a more mature age and long experience. I place firm reliance upon the wisdom of Parliament and upon the loyalty and affection of my people." At the conclusion of the service the "Dead March in Saul" was played by the organist, Miss Burr. '