Those present standing, Sir Skin-vor Turner of justice, mere Mr. Crown Advocate and Gentle menj—T have asked you to come re this morning, as it seemed to ne fitting that public tribute should his paid in this Court to the memory of her late Majesty Queen Alexundra, of whose death we learned, not without emotion, on Saturday last, Within a day' or two of her Stet birthday, she has passed to her rest, and England has lost one who for long years has been a familiny and much-loved figure, It ix now nearly 63 years since the sea_ King's Daughter from Over the Sea"——a girl of 19 came fron her home in Denmark—The Blissul Bride of a Blissful Heit"—to be married to our Prince of Wales. Her youth and beauty at once endeared her to all; her public welcome exceeded all expectations; and never did she recede in the affections of the people of England. During the time when she was Princess Wales, during her time as our Queen, and during her widowhood, when she was known as Alexandra the Queen Mother, she kept those sffeetions, She had adopted England as "her home, and England adopted her.
To me, a8 a schoolboy in London, she was a familar figure in alt State pageants, I sav her enter Westminster Abbey for her corona~ tion, anit I sate her leave that sta fane after the ceremo her lust on the sad occasion of ti funeral of King Edward VI. always had the full and marked affections of her people. Well had she responded to the li Come to ws, love us, and mate un your owl She was marked, it seems to me, ier pablic life, by her loyalty to her adopted country, by her affec-fos to that country, and by he Me ion in Local Churches During the course of hi sermon at Holy Trinity Cathedral on Sun-{day, Dean Symons made sympathetic references to Queen Alexandra's death, "At the morning service at Union Church which was conducted by the Rev. E. Bt, Poteat, of the Baptist College, reference! was made in prayer to the great sorrow which' has befallen the British Empire by the death—of Queen Alexandra, As an opening! Voluntary, the organist, Mr BR. MacDonald played, "I know that my! Reiieemer live th." "Crossing the! Bar" was the selection during the offertory, and at the close of th {service the "Dead March in Sa [was rendered, the "congregation standing.
'At the Free Christian Charch on. Sunday morning, the Rev. Eldridge, who conducted the first portion "of the service, referred] briefly to the grief which' had fallen pon the British Royal Family and the nation in the death of the Queen Mother. Mz, Eldridge spoke of the lute Queen's: outstanding Christiaa life one character, of her interest {in all that pertained to the welfare jof the nation, and. of the" many womanly and queenly acts whic had endeared her to all classes of he British people. As their vympathy went out to the royal family thi" bereavement, they could best honour the memory of the Into [Queen by resolving to walk in the path eh:
followed and thus seek make thei in their own mor
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