A GOOD MONUMENT TO A GOOD QUEEN

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 8074, 19 March 1901, Page 1

A GOOD MONUMENT TO A GOOD QUEEN

What will be the- best monument for the Queen? We have no hesitation (remarks the Louid'on Spectator) as to our answir—a iirnii resolve made, by all men and women, in the nation, gnat and humble, rich and poor, that they will be worthy of llm leader and friend, they have lost,' and that they will relax no effort and spare no cost, be the self-sacrifice never so great, to maintfcin the n'atiou in the moral strength and oi'eatness and in the national' pros, perity to which it was raised arid in wliic'n it was maintained during the Victorian age. Her inoiiunveiit must be in lihe hearts of a, people strengthened ami renewed even 113- .her death, ami! not in a broken-hearted: nation, or in a. nation i-tirdfir.il 'anxious and tilled, with forebodings, distracted and depressed at its loss. Thousands of .nseu. .Audi wonnen are thinking to-day 'how they can show their respect (for the d'eail Queen and: how tliey can keep flier memory alive. They ca.n do it, and l must do it, by each making IJIO personal individual resolve t ! hat Britain shall in the future, be wore, not lews, worthy, -and that the .death of the. Queen shall murk, niot the close of a great epoch, but its eontimia.nee, a.nd development. A nation is no cold and; inhuinan entily wove.n of abstractions and mere figments of the'brain, 'but a. body of breathing, feeling men, and if each living part of the whole makes a- resolve, that resolve must and will affect tho destiny of 'the illation. If the nation gives way to gloomy and superstitious forebodings, the mind and moral, force of the country must be allYcted for ill. If, -on the other hand, the people resolve wi'tlh one mind not to let their -moral fibre be relaxed, but to deserve a.nd to win a higher position than ever they have, already attained, nothing can prevent that millioii-so tiled resolution from bearing fruit. 'The le-gtaid runs that when the Queen a.s a, little child first learned that she would Nome day hold: rule in these islands, sire resolved with tears to bo worthy of the high duties that had fallen ■oft her; .and that resolve was kept. 11 now- the people of Britain imitate lur example and make a simila.r resolve, nothing can overcome the weight and force of their determination.