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LIFE OF DEAN BUCKLAND. 
[CH. IX. 
“ One more last word of consolation and congratulation 
before we part. In the years of peril and perturbation which 
agitated Europe half a century ago, it was the personal 
character of the king of this country (King George III.) 
which, under Providence, was mainly instrumental to pre¬ 
serve us from the sanguinary revolutions which then overran 
the fairest part of the Continent It is the personal character 
of his rightful heir and royal successor upon the throne of 
her ancestors which, under God’s blessing, will, we trust and 
pray, preserve us also from the returning hurricanes of 
European political revolution. We know that the fervent 
prayer of the righteous availeth much ; and when the God 
of heaven beholds our most religious and gracious Queen 
practically affirming with the holy Joshua, ‘ As for me and 
my house, we will serve the Lord,’ on her bended knees 
joining with her household in prayer and supplication to 
the King of kings and Lord of lords, we may humbly trust 
that the Majesty of heaven will accept the prayer of His 
anointed servant and minister upon earth, and in His 
mercy vouchsafe to hide her and the subjects of her 
kingdom from ‘ the gathering together of the froward, and 
from the insurrection of wicked doers.’ 
“ England, it has been truly said, has almost always 
prospered under her queens. In the sacred person of our 
most gracious Sovereign (who within these holy walls has 
been anointed to rule over us), we arc at this awful crisis 
blessed with a queen who in every relation of domestic 
life is a pattern of conjugal and maternal virtues, and 
who in her most exalted public station is the honoured 
exemplar of regal dignity, the object of the love and 
faithful service and loyal obedience of her subjects, the 
type and repository of mercy and clemency and supre¬ 
macy, in the rule of that great united kingdom and justly 
balanced constitution at the head of which a gracious 
Providence has placed her. Blessed with such a sovereign, 
though the heathen may furiously rage together and the 
people imagine a vain thing, the throne, we trust and pray, 
will be exalted in righteousness and the blessing of God 
descend on us and our posterity.” . . . 
