Very properly the Archbishop of Canterbury added his voice to
that of the Prime Minister and leader of the Opposi- tion. He spoke with great simplicity, as well as emotion, of her religious temper of mind and its influence. The character of her Court, and the character of her domestic life, had a penetrating power which reached far beyond the possi- bility of our being able to trace it. "There can be no ques- tion that all society has been the better because the Queen has reigned. There cannot be a question that it has been a blessing to very many who know not from whence the blessing sowed. Thousands upon thousands, I have no doubt at all, are leading better livcs, although they know not the reason, simply because there was such a. Sovereign on the Throne." She was, continued the Archbishop, a religious woman. "She prayed for her people. She was a good Imago. She set up a true standard of each lives Ohratians alight to live." Courtly prelates have too often in Mates pass heaped their eulogies en Sovereigns who had
lone nothing to deserve them, but here, at any rate, was an trchiepiscopal eulogy as honourable to him who made it as it was well merited by the great Queen who was its subject.
