“LEAD, KINDLY LIGHT."
“I go from a corruptible crown on earth to an Incorruptib’e Crown in Heaven,” said Charles I. to his Bishop when on that fatal .scaffold at Whitehall. Her late Majesty found the Crown corrupted, but not corruptible, as she did what Charles was incapable of—she purified and sanctified it with the renewed spieu--1!
dour of immortal Alfred. For that she goes to a Greater Crown, while her influence remains a long way more brilliant than the most priceless gem the earthly one contains. Eddystone Lighthouse stands on a. rock fourteen miles south-west of Plymouth, and its light is visible for seventeen and a half miles. Its keepers when they heard of the death of the Queen sent a. wreath inscribed “"Lead, Kindly Light, and thatof all the mottoes was the one most, fitting for the dead Sovereign. I inn on a rock that we hope will never be s 1 - lied by any successor, the la<.e Queen s life-work rises a. veritable beacon and l light is visible all over the world, and its rays will penetrate for all tune.
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New Zealand Mail, 21 February 1901, Page 16
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