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STRONG DRINK.
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Cnuncn, MavThi, 1885.
Strong drink is :i subject of vast
importance (o all of us, for 11 relates
to our welfare In many ways : our
health, our family Interests, our
social anil inalctial comfort, and
above all our relation to, and ac
countability in thu groat hereafter.
The' oldest and best of books, the
Bible, is full of warning concerning
the use of intoxicating wine, de
clares it a " mocker," that it " bite3
like a serpent and stings like an
adder," and that "no drunkard
shall inheiit the Kingdom of Heav
en." The declarations of Scripltuu
aie confirmed by the teaching of
ikalure and our own every day ex
perience. Wo know it is a mocker
in every respect, we know the veno
mous sting of strong drink poisons
the life blood of the fairest, ablest,
and purest of earth. It is no res
pecter of persons. Ilistoiy tells of
heroes, prophets, priests, and kings
who have fallen by its power, and
the sad lessons of life prove that
neither genius, learning, position,
nor strength, is proof against it. As
a fountain of misery and woe, strong
drink stands without a rival. From
it streams the tears of widows and
orphans, the low sad w ail of agony
which ascends to Heaven day and
night from broken hearts; by it the
highest hopes and prospects of life
are blasted, and the very innocenco
of childhood grows old with ignor
ance and vice. By it beauty is
clothed in rags and shame, and man
hood shorn of its godlike glory,
each repeating the sad warning to
bewaro of these drinks. Intoxica
tion destroys all that i best and
noblest in our nature ; and can wo
not look back even here in Honolulu
and remember valuable lives de
stroyed ""; down in the flower of
manb .ripped of almost every
shrci jlf-respcct and swept into
a dru id's grave. If some of
them could appear before us to-night
and speak how their tones of remorse
would freeze our very marrow. The
most deplorable of the many wrecks
of humanity that I have seen was a
doctor, a man once eminent in his
profession. Sometimes people would
try to catch him a little sober
to obtain his advice. Upon entering
a house he would ask nervously,
"Do you drink, do you diink? Put
it away, put it away. Don't touch
it!" Alas! he had not power to
follow his own advice, notwithstand
ing the fact that flic law fixed a
penalty of 8250 upon any one caught
supplying him. Yes, the di ink is a
terrible power ; it holds a man in
the iron grip of the Devil, and it
sometimes moves him when nothing
else will. I was present onco at a
meeting where the returning officer
officially announced the result of a
ballot for the return of a member of
the Victorian Legislature. The suc
cessful candidate had thanked tho
electors in a sober, neat speech.
Then came the defeated candidate's
turn to speak. He was slightly in
liquor and assured those present
that ther had all done wrong in not
electing him. He kept on talking
foolishly, his friend pulling at his
coat tails to get him to stop, but no
use. Then came a man to wind
ward of him with a glass of hot
brandy and water, and he turned
and followed that glass of liquor
just as a hungry mule would follow
a bag of corn. I know I need not
give you instances of how drink
makes a man ridiculous. You sec it
yourselves.
But someone will suy, "Yes, that
is all very true, when men take loo
much liquor they act foolishly. I
don't take much, but I mii3t have
some to help me to get through my
work." Another says, "I am not
in good health and 1 must have a
little wine, or beer, or spirits, to
help me to get along." There can
be no greater delusion than this,
lleraomber that all these things are
water with a small portion of a poi
sonous liquid known as alcohol
added. A friend of mine was prais
ing the quality of a champagne wine
on his table boasted of it as no
watery stuff. I ventured to differ
with him and told him it was simply
three-fourths or moro water, the rest
alcohol, sugar, a little flavoring
essence and carbonic acid gas, and
for this he paid $50 a dozen. Now
the human body has no ubo for any
of theso things, except the water ;
every fibre of the body is fed by
water; introduce any other liquid
and you produce disturbance, dis
ease, and prouaoiy instant ueain.
I was present onco at a large fire
in the city of Melbourne. The wine
and spirits flowed out of tho great
warehouse in a stream, and a few
stooped down to drink from that
stream. Three of the number
were carried from the spot dead:
it was tho stream of death! There
is probably not a healthy man pre
Bout who could drink" off 51 oz. of
pure alcohol and live 3 minutes after
tho act. Tho bottle of whiskey, for
which, j'ou pay 2 or more, is water
the only other liquid being alcohol,
which at first hand may haye cpst
less than five cents to make, and
this is all you get for 82. All you
get, did I say? But stop
there might bo eight fights in that
I
on somebody's head, involving any
violence from murder down. Yes,
the cost, of a bottle of whiskey never
ends with its coM. at the saloon.
Hut I have digressed from the
consideration of the action of these
drinks on the body. Directly even
the smallest quantity is swallowed
even a tablespoonful all the ma
chinery of the body is at woik to
expel it. It is forced through the
kidneys, the skin, and tho lungs,
and if you get near enough to the
drinker you can smell the poison in
evciy breath. It is treated by the
body as a common robber, for it en
ters to steal its peace and comfort.
I hope, at some future time, to bo
able to show you some beautiful and
instinctive experiments by the aid
of a powerful magic lantern and
microscope. 1 could show you tho
action of alcohol on the blood, the
heart, and other paits of the bod.
But let me say a few words on its
action on the blood. Directly the
smallest particle of alcohol is taken
into the stomach, it is absorbed into
the circulation, and conies in con
tact with the blood. Now the blood
is largely composed of thin disks,
bi-concave that is, hollow on the
outer edges. In a small drop of
blood there are two or three hun
dred of these disks, they can be
distinctly scon by a microscope per
fectly shaped, full of life and ac
tivity. One of the important func
tion of these blood corpuscles is,
to absorb and carry oxygen. Now,
what is the effect of the contact of
alcohol with these delicate and im
portant structures? Directly thcyaro
touched by nlcohol they are broken
up, the natural shape is destroyed,
the beautiful red color is gone ; for
they aro shrivelled up, so that thdy
can no longer absorb oxygen from
the air upon which their color, and
their very existence, depend. Time
would fail me to pursue this, to mo
most interesting, part of my subject,
and I shall close it with a few words
on the action of alcohol on that most
vital of all organs of the body, the
heart. The heart is almost wholly
composed of muscular tissue and
blood vessels, it is in fact a hollow
muscle, by the contraction of which
the blood is forced into the extremi
ties of the body, carrying with it the
elements from which the tissues of
the body aro built up. Tho amount
of woik required to be porformed by
the heart is enormous, and some
times it is subject to severe extra
strain, as in running, and lifting
heavy weights. In health it beats
74 times a minute, but a small por
tion of alcohol will increase the, pul
sations, thus making it do extra
heavy wdrk. Even so small a quan
tity as one ounce, two-tablespoon-fuls,
will make the heait beat 430
times a day more. This means the
wasting of force equivalent to lifting
4,300 pounds one foot high in a
minute.
Thus arc proved the words of
scripture, " It diminishcth strength"
as well as " maketh wounds." This
waste of force continued produces a
change in the structure of the heart.
The muscles aud what are termed the
walls of the heait in time lose the
softness and elasticity so essential
to their natural exercise, and become
haul and bony. Ihcre is also a de
posit of fat formed on tho walls of
tho heart, clogging up the muscles
and producing the disease known as
" fatty degeneration,", a disease
water drinkers do not suffer from.
Thus the drinker weakens his system,
and becomes an easier victim to
diseaso. Thus docs intempcranco
conodc the very life blood.
Do not for a moment labor under
the delusion that alcohol possesses
any power under any circumstances
to sustain or build up tiie body j nor
is it a preventive against any dis
ease. Bewaro of it, as beer.
"What?" says somobody, "Why,
beer is strengthening, I know it.
Abuse whiskey if you like, but let
the beer alone. Is it not made from
bailey and hops, and are they not
wholesonio?" Yes, barley is good;
I have eaten it as bread, and it is a
good staff of life, just what God
sent it foi Liebig, one of the
greatest chemists the world lias ever
known, said:" After eight years of
thorough experiment, I have proved
with mathematical accuracy that tho
amount of nourishment you may
take upon the point of a tabic knife
inserted into a sack of flour, con
tains absolutely moro nourishment
for tho physical organism than the
nourishment contained in a gallon
of the best Bavarian beer, and if a
person is able to drink two gallons
of beer a day each day in tho year,
ho would get about the same amount
of nutrition, in that time, that he
would by consuming a five pound
loaf of bread or three pounds of
lean meat."
This German beer is made under
government control, aud differs much
from the American beer. A fact
well-known to physicians is, that
beer drinkers aro known to suffor
more than any other class from an
incurable disease of the kidneys,
known as Bright's disease. Be
ware of alcohol as sweet wine, or
homemade wine. At an evening
party it is no uncommon thing for
tho lady of the houso to introduce
kor own mado wine, believing it to
bo. harmless, with words like these,
botlle, and It may Anally be broken
1 Oh, it is perfectly harmless, I as
sure you. I made It myself from
our own fruit, so I know theic Is
nothing bad in it." The well-mean-lug
soul is ignorant of the llrst
piiuciplcs of chemistry, or she would
know that her fermented fiuit is
changed into another substance, and
that a poison. The most fiery of all
the alcohols is mado from chcriics.
It is largely used in Germany and
Switzerland, and known as "Kirch
nasser." This reminds me of an anecdote
of a Dutch judge in New York, who
was n temperance man in his way.
The first morning that ho occupied
ids scat on the bench, tho drunks
were brought before him something
in the same way as they arc bcfoio
Judge Bickerlon. Thu first one was
asked, "Veil, 1113 man, vat you get
drunk on?" "I got drurik on
brandy, yer honor." " O-ho, you
get drunk on brandy, eh? Me fine you
S10. The next came on: "Well, my
man, vat von got dhrunk on?"
"Whiskey." "Fine you eight dol
lars." Tho next got drunk on
schnapps. That was again two dol
lars more innocent than the whiskey.
The man who got drunk on beer was
only fined four dollars. Then came
the lust case, and in reply he owned
up to cider, "Oh, you get drunk on
aider, eh? Not fine you me get
dhrunk on zider myself."
Well-meaning men are some
times heard easting-round for a sub
stitute for these drinks. No sub
stitute is wanted. Man, in common
with all animate creation, requires
but one drink, pure water. This
God's infinite lovo has furnished
bountifully and sends it coursing
through the earth, rushing down the
hillside, glancing in the' sunbeam,
bounding through tho valfey, dis
tilling in the dew, and treasured in
the mighty deep. Not in a dark
cellar amid poisonous fumes docs
God the eternal brew the precious
essence of life, the pure cold water,
but away up, and up, docs He draw
it from His vast storehouse, and
having distilled it in the pure breath
of heaven, causes His rain like His
sunshine to descend upon the just
and the unjust.
Now I sec young men here, and I
would like a few wolds specially
with them, for the future of this
country depends upon the young
men and women. There are excel
lent opportunities for mental and
moral improvement here. What
arc j'ou doing with your time? Do
you look forward and prc'pare for a
life of usefulness? Soon we shall
have passed away from this scene of
labor and you will have to take our
places. If your country is to im
prove it will be by your actions.
Let every young man know that the
elements of success in life arc found
in their words, knowledge, health,
and habits. I don't like to sec
j'oung men vaste time when the
moments are so precious for im
proving the mind. The indulgence
in tobacco is also a great evil, and
few young men know how injurious
it is to body and mind. If you
want society, seek it in the company
of respectable j'oung men and
women. I was passing up Nuuanu
street last Saturday night week and,
attracted by the guitars and dance,
I went into the Beehive. What a
name for a drunkery! and one of
the bees I saw was a young man, a
native, who formerly worked with
me. I told him it was no place for
him, and influenced him to leave the
low, disgusting exhibition, loung
man: that is not the sort of
house in which to form character.
Now we will suppose a merchant
wants a young man, and two young
men apply for the situation. One
goes to his minister, and says, "I
am applying for a situation, will you
give me a certificate of character to
Mr. So-and-so?" The minister
writes, "I know this young man to
be moral, and truly worthy. He
attends Sunday school regularly and
is a member of my church. He is
sober and indiibtrious," and signs
his name. Ho goes to his employer
and says, "Will you give me a cre
dential?" and his employer gives
him a certificate to the same effect
as that received from tho pastor.
The other young man goes to the
saloon-keeper, with whom he has
associated, and says, "I want a cer
tain position. Will you give mo a
certificate." "Why, certainly,"
says tho dram-seller, and ho writes :
"Ho is a good fellow, can play the
best game of billiards of any man I
know 5 can play seyen-up with a par
son and beat him five times out of
six ; can drink moro beer in a given
length of time than any man of my
acquaintance ; can play a guitar like
a Spaniard, and dance the hula kid
to perfection, ho is a bright, jolly,
youug man." They go to the mer
chant and lay down their credentials
beforo him. Does it matter whether
tho merchant drinks beor or not?
whether he is a Christian or not?
He will from a business point of view
hire the man who comc3 with a re
cord of total abstinence and mo
lality. Go where you will in tho
civilized world to-day, temperance
principles and temperance works aro
rolling humanity steadily upward.
The business world recognizes tho
truth, that the man who drinks
liquor is injured intellectually, phy
sically and morally by such use.
And now, in closing, I wish to
divide this audience into two class
es; thoso who by their lives and
piofcssion assent to the piiuciplcs 1
have advocated this evening, and
those who do not. To you who en
joy the llbeity of Christian life I
say, Stand fust in that liberty in
which Christ has made you free.
You have been emancipated fioin
self-indulgence, and tnsted tho
sweets of the redeemed manhood.
You know this total abstinence re
form to be nn integral principle of
the Kingdom yet to be established
on the Earth, and it will bo your
pleasure and privilege to icovc for
God and humanity. Be earnest, be
faithful in spreading the principles
you hold. To others, who as yet
have not seen the value of these
principle", 1 say, weigh well what I
have said, llcnicmbor, there is no
such thing as standing still in
life. To all I say, we are
living in anxious times. One after
another of tho pillars of the Hawai
ian race arc being removed. Ono
roynl in lineage, and distinguished
in virtue, has just passed away, and
we all as ono community mourn a
nation's loss. The old traditional
safeguards of morality are being
loosed, and the dangerous traffic I
have been denouncing is now legalized
for the 111 si time on the other islands.
Of its effect Ho same man can have
a doubt. Sixty years ago the natives
of the island of what is now Tas
mania numbered about as many as
tho whole Hawaiian population of
this Kingdom to-day, but drink and
the vices which accompany it swept
them away. In the whole civilized
world to-day governments, claiming
to represent the will of the people,
respond to the crj' of the people to
enact laws that will make it easier
for the people to do right than
wrong.'
In conclusion, 'our duty is plain,
and I urge its faithful dischargo
upon all here. Let us stand shoulder
to shoulder. Let us placo the party
squarely before tho advocates of
license and the people. Lot us say
fairly and honestly, that if the
saloons of this land do more good
thnn evil, bless more homes than they
curse, make more good men than
bad men, more intelligent men than
ignorant men, more industrious men
than idle men, moro happy hearts
than sad ones, more wealthy men
than paupers, if they give us more
plenty than want, more prosperity
than ruin, then you will stand by,
work for, and vote for the men who
encourage the saloon system. But
if, on the other hand, the saloon
system of this country everywhere
stimulates vice, avarice, crime, and
disease, it is the enemy of mankind,
the enemy of civilization, intelli
gence, morality, Christianity, and
God, the question we have to settle
with our consciences aud with our
souls is, Which is right and which is
wrong?
QUEEN EMMA'S VISIT TO ENCLANO IN
1865.
From u pmnphlut Issued at the time, bca
udltoiiul notice In tills Issue.J.
There is a royal body now on our
shores, coming and going amongst
us, and learning daily more and
more what English people are, about
whom very little is known to the
majority of the pepple who seem to
welcome her so gladly. It is there
fore the object of this little book to
give home account of Queen Emma,
and of what has induced her to
leave her island homo in the Pacific,
and brave the perils of this long
voyage, and to try and enlist the
sympathies 'and interest of some of
the thousands who throng to catch a
sight of her, and who, from lip to
lip, pass the question, "Who N
Queen Emma, and what has brought
her to England?"
Queen Emma is the youthful
widow of the late King of the Sand
wich Islands, and had she come
merely out of curiosity to see tho
wonderful and great empire, whose
fame sho must have heard of from
her earliest days, her presence would
have been hailed as a signal for
feting and welcoming her, and Eng
lish people would have made tho
occasion of her visit a joyous time
to look back to when she was once
more safe among her native sub
jects ; but there is something so
peculiar so mournful and yet
touchiugly sacred in tho cause
which impelled her to come, that a
kind of refining gentle joy seems to
pervade all hearts that have felt her
story, and to leave nn impress be
hind, wherever sho has been, that
people will iTbt readily forget. How
ever, it is to enlist the sympathies
and interests beforehand, in a proper
spirit, of those who have not seen
her, that these pages are written;
for out of tho numbers who catch a
glimpso of the royal lady as she
comes and goes from town to town,
but very few comparatively may
ever have an opportunity of listen
ing to the ui'va voce relation of her
mission to England in her actual pres
ence, and yet it is a talc that should
speak to tho heart of every earnest,
thinking man, woman and child in
this Christian Empire, and if rightly
understood, draw forth such an im
pulse to aid her, that she will return
to Honolulu with a blessing in her
gentle, pure heart, ever to be
breathed to Heaven for England,
which shall recompense every mite
which has been added to this
widow's, ns a (.nrrificr of love to a
holy cause.
Fint, we will try and account for
the seeming curious circumstance
that the native Queen of the Sand
wich Islands is so very English in
her appearance; bo much so, that
people have been heard to express
great astonishment that she is not n
black lady, or, nt any rate, of that
dark, swarthy coloring bo widely
diffused among some of the races of
the earth. "Who is this new
Queen? I've heard say sho is a
black woman come from the Savage
Islands," tho writer of this heard
asked a few days ago in a northern
town to which Queen Emma had
just paid a visit, and a desire to
make known who and what she is,
arose instantly in her mind, and
sent her home to collect all thu in
formation likely to be 6f interest to
many besides theso ignorant quer
ists. There is an English gentleman in
high olllco in thu Hawaiian Court,
who has written 11 book descriptive
of these islands of their chiefs and
sovereigns, and of their wonderful
desire to effect their own conversion
of what has been done to aid in car
rying out this desire, and of the zeal
and devotion of tho late King Ka
mchameha, to promote every effort
to civilize and Christianize his coun
trymen and from that book 1 re
member seeing extracts relating to
the domestic afflictions of Queen
Emma, together with many interest
ing particulars relating to her de
scent ; but this book was written and
published before she came to Eng
land, and what seems more wanted
now is a more purely personal ac
count, and a simple narrative of her
mission, in such brief form that "he
who runs may read," and that we
may have the latest account of our
honored visitor.
The writer of the pamphlet
here goes on to quote from journals
and correspondence of Miss Berry,
1783 to 1852, an account of :i
reception by Mr. Canning, Secre
tary of Stale, of the King and Queen
of these islands, in 1821, and com
pares the personal appearance of
the royal visitors of '21 and 'GO.
Queen Emma is neither short nor
tall, though the newspapers des
cribe her as both! according to
fancy. She appears to be about 5
feet 4 J or 5 feet .", as near as can
be judged, but possibly her mourn
ing attire rather takes from her
height, and if the first of the two
hazarded without accurate measure
ment, she is just the stature thought
perfect for a yeoman. She is slight
in figure, and of easy, graceful car
riage, and has a peculiarly gentle,
winning grace of manner which is
irresistibly attractive; her hair is
dark, almost black, but looks bright
and glossy ; her complexion is of a
rich brunette tint, and darker than
often met with in English women,
but not in any way approaching the
Indian type ; her features are regu
lar and of most pleasing contour ;
her eyes, very large, dark, and very
earnest in their gazo ; and her whole
expression, though sweet, amiable,
and highly intelligent, is that of
seriousness. To this we must add
an apparent quick sensibility to
emotion, where tho mournful inci
dents of her life arc the theme of
discourse in her presence, and an
instant sympathetic look when a
child approaches her ; and there is
little moro to describe in this royal
lady, who seems to possess a very
considerable amount of attractions,
even for the critical English taste,
and to win hearts and sympathies
very readily in her own person.
Our royal visitor speaks English
gracefully and well, as all testify
who have seen and heard her, and,
of course, her acquaintance with it
as a written language is as perfect
at any rate as that of the Princess
of Wales for instance, who was said
to be able to read and write it per
fectly when she came to England,
but not to speak it easily at all, so
in this respect Queen Emma has the
advantage.
Queen Emma is directly des
cended from an Englishman who
was taken prisoner by tho grcut
King Kamehameha I. on his landing
on the island, and who was even
tually naturalized and elevated to
great honors in tho rule of tho coun
try by the King, in gratitude for his
wisdom and experience in tho means
of civilization. This man, John
Young by namo, eventually mar
ried a native lady of high rank and
had two daughters, ono of whom,
named Fanny Kekcla, married a
nativo prince of the Hawaiian blood
royal, named Naca, who were tho
parents of our heroine, Queen
Emma. When her father died, she
went to live under the adoption of
her aunt's husband, a Dr. Ilookc,
and from there became the consort
of Kamehameha IV., or the Lord
who has so recently left her a widow
1)3' his early demise. Man3' (people
will remember tho circumstances of
tho death of tho 3'oung Prince, their
only child, who was the hopo of his
royal parents and of his county, as
he was to be trained in all Christian
graces, under the immediate care
aud tutelage of Bishop Stulcy, and
so rcalizo all the earnest aspirations
of tho King, who lived but to pro
mote in everyway tho good and wel
faro of his people. When tho little
I'rinco was taken from them, tho
King's lament and grief, and those
tif the sorrow -stricken young mother,
wete most touchiugly conveyed to
English hearts by a letter written by
the King himself to our gracious
Queen, who had lovingly condes
cended to be godmother to the littlu
Prince of this far distant isle ; and
in tho beautiful and touching ex
pression of their sorrow, enforced
by tho simple but powerful cloquenco
of native languago rendered into
English, it was forcibly suggestivo
of another ro3'al father's sorrow
King David of holy writ for the
.same lender, gcntlo lovo filled both
hearts, and the same submission to
the Divine decree consecrated their
sorrow, when indeed they knew the
child was no more. Scarce re
covered from this great trial, the
King and Queen resolved not to de
lay the interests of their countiy,
but to como on a mission to Eng
land, and ask for tho sympathy and
aid of our Queen and county in
endeavoring to save their count ry
meii, both spiritually and bodily,
from extermination. But God did
not permit King Knniehameha to
realize this desire. Hu was called
to his great account; but lie had
sown tho good seed, and it was his
earnest hope that once planted it
would spring up and bear fruit and
increase a hundredfold. That ho
was a man of wonderful intellectual
vigor, as well as graced, as becomes
the ruler of a kingdom, with all tho
refined and generous virtues of a
large, pure heart, noble and devoted '
to all that is good, is proved by
having devoted himself to and ac
complished the task of translating
our prayer book into the Hawaiian
language.
He wished his people to feel re
ligion in their hearts, and not only
subscribe to its outward forms and
expressions ; ho wished the lives of
his countrymen to be pure and holy ;
and so progressive in all that can
create and elevate a nation ; and so
his first act was to train some of the
ablest and most intellectual of them
in the English language, so that
after learning all the teaching and
principles of Christianity U1C3' might
teach it to the masses. And this is
only to be done at first by native
teachers, who understand how to
win their hearts, and of course
must be conveyed in their native
language ; for is not this one of the
primarj" doctrines of the English
Church, that religion to be felt, and
realized, and loved, must b con
veyed in a language known to all
who seek its teaching. King Ka
mehameha desired to establish the
Christian religion under the form
clearest to his insight of what his
people needed that of the English
Protestant Church permanently in
hi3 country, and to effect this he
asked the Queen and Archbishops
of England to aid him. To this
end not to plant a mission, but to
establish a church in tho land
founded on all the principles of the
English one a bishop was conse
crated and sent to found the Sec of
Honolulu in Hawaii ; and in timo to
come, if God prospers this great
work, English divines can withdraw
and leave the educated competent
Hawaiiaus to select their own'clergy
from their own countrymen. And
now wo come to explain the cause
and object of the widowed Queen's
visit to this county. It is partly
to realize the wish of her husband,
and to tell all of us in England who
care to hear, how earnest and true
that little spot in the world the
Sandwich Islands is in the work of
regeneration. It is partly to feel
she is carrying out tho sacred wish
of her husband, and inspiring by
her presence those who plead her
course so eloquently to bo 3'et more
eloquent and convincing. It is
partly, perhaps, to seo the country
so powerful to save and to destroy
to understand our wa3rs and our
principles to seo and judge for
herself what our church is like to
note the working of Christianity in
this favored land, and to learn to
love us and to honor us in reality,
as sho has hitherto done in idea ;
and perhaps who shall say how much
sho may be influenced by tho innate
desire to come and seo a land from
which she may bo said remotely to
derive her birth. Let any ono who
has seen Queen Emma say, if they
do not feel sho is como on a high
and holy mission, more real, moro
vital in earnest, devoted zeal for her
faith and country, than were the
pilgrimages of old to tho Holy
City ; nnd do they not fl to lovo
and honor and wclcomo her, to seo
and share in the best of all our
country can offer, and to desire
each and all to strew her path with
flowers and cheer and brighten the
gentle, sorrowing heart, so mcekty
clad in its widow's garb. From
the highest and noblest in the land
she has, and will continuo to receive
every consideration and honor that
her oxaltcd position and yet simply
borne state can command ; and the
most humblo of Queen Emma's visi
tors or well wishers render her in
their hearts that homage aud love
that is accorded to evcryono who is .
holy and good, bo they of geakle or
lowly birth.
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