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successful efforts in the promotion of international harmony and 
goodwill he laid the whole world under his debt, and was univer- 
sally hailed as the Great Peacemaker ; and what nobler title can 
there be to the remembrance of posterity t 
To that Gracious Lady, the widowed Queen, in her affliction, 
our thoughts have daily turned ever since the sad news was flashed 
to us by the wires, and we pray that God in His goodness may 
give her strength to bear her sorrow. King Edward and Queen 
i^lexandra have always seemed very near to us in Ceylon. His 
Majesty honoured the Island with a visit extending over many 
days in 1875, and captivated the hearts of all. The links then 
formed were renewed and strengthened when Their Majesties sent 
their two beloved sons, still in their teens, among us in the year 
1882, and later their present Majesties in 1901. Our Island was 
thus specially favoured among the King's dominions. 
His late Majesty's interest and attachment to Ceylon was 
shared by all the Royal Family. This was brought home to 
me in a striking manner in the winter of 1904, when Mrs. 
Arunachalam and I were in England, and Her Majesty Queen 
Alexandra was graciously pleased to honour us with a private 
audience at Buckingham Palace. Impressed as we were — and 
who is not ? — hy the Queen's marvellous beauty and gracious 
manner , we were scarcely less impressed by the interest manifested 
in this Island and its people and the concern for their welfare — 
an interest so deep that Her Majesty expressed her disappointment 
that it had not been possible for her to accompany the King to 
Ceylon in 1875, but Her Majesty still hoped to pay the Island a 
visit. The happiness of welcoming Her Gracious Majesty among 
us can now be scarcely hoped for. But should that good fortune 
be granted to us, no need to say that the Queen Mother is assiu-ecl 
of a universal welcome of the most loyal affection and devotion. 
It is impossible for any formal words to express our grief at the 
close of so great and beneficent a career as that of His late Majesty 
and oiu" sympathy with the widowed Queen. But such as it is, 
I ask you to pass this resolution and to authorize the Honorary 
Secretary to forward it to His Excellency the Governor for 
submission to His Majesty the King and the Queen Mother. 
The following vote of condolence was passed in solemn silence , 
all Members standing. 
Resolved, — " To place on record the grief of this Society and 
its sense of the profound loss sustained by the British Empire, 
and by the world of art, science, and literature, by the death of 
His Majesty King Edward VII. , Patron of the Parent Society, and 
to submit the same with our humble condolence to His Majesty 
King George V., the Queen Mother, and the Royal Family." 
3. Resolved, — That the following Members be recommended 
for election : — 
(1) C. A. Davis : recommended by |^ ^' J^seph.^^^^^ 
(2) C. V. Brayne, CCS. : recom- f J. A. Daniel. 
mended by C. G. A. Joseph. 
