folly of human beings who are always ready to tear each other to pieces, and to deluge the earth with each other’s blood; this is your extended humanity—­and this the great field of your compassion.  Extinguish in your heart the fiendish love of military glory, from which your sex does not necessarily exempt you, and to which the wickedness of flatterers may urge you.  Say upon your death-bed, ’I have made few orphans in my reign—­I have made few widows—­my object has been peace.  I have used all the weight of my character, and all the power of my situation, to check the irascible passions of mankind, and to turn them to the arts of honest industry.  This has been the Christianity of my throne, and this the Gospel of my sceptre.  In this way I have strove to worship my Redeemer and my Judge.’”

True to his lifelong conviction, the preacher urges the sacredness of religious freedom.—­

“I hope the Queen will love the National Church, and protect it; but it must be impressed upon her mind that every sect of Christians have as perfect a right to the free exercise of their worship as the Church itself—­that there must be no invasion of the privileges of the other sects, and no contemptuous disrespect of their feelings—­that the Altar is the very ark and citadel of Freedom.

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“Though I deprecate the bad effects of fanaticism, I earnestly pray that our young Sovereign may evince herself to be a person of deep religious feeling:  what other cure has she for all the arrogance and vanity which her exalted position must engender? for all the flattery and falsehood with which she must be surrounded? for all the soul-corrupting homage with which she is met at every moment of her existence? what other cure than to cast herself down in darkness and solitude before God—­to say that she is dust and ashes—­and to call down the pity of the Almighty upon her difficult and dangerous life.  This is the antidote of kings against the slavery and the baseness which surround them; they should think often of death—­and the folly and nothingness of the world, and they should humble their souls before the Master of masters, and the King of kings; praying to Heaven for wisdom and calm reflection, and for that spirit of Christian gentleness which exalts command into an empire of justice, and turns obedience into a service of love.”

Thus he recapitulates and concludes:—­

“A young Queen, at that period of life which is commonly given up to frivolous amusement, sees at once the great principles by which she should be guided, and steps at once into the great duties of her station.  The importance of educating the lower orders of the people is never absent from her mind; she takes up this principle at the beginning of her life, and in all the change of servants, and in all the struggle of parties, looks to it as a source of permanent improvement.