A TRIBUTE TO THE KING.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1205, 14 August 1911, Page 9

A TRIBUTE TO THE KING.

King George, declared the Bev. E. W. Lewis in his sermon at King's Weigh Hoxieo Church, London, on Sunday morning on June 26,. gathers, up in himself those Tobuster and healthier qualities of our national character by which wo hold our place in the modern world. Ho is a man of simple habits and sober mind. That he should tracj his lineage to the Saxon kings is a less important fact than that the salt of the sea and the breath of tho open country is in his blood. He has been called our Sailor King; he might with almost equal truth bo called our Yeoman Kiiw. Those who know hini more directly find the unmistakable strain of Puritanism in him. We may be less dazzled by tho .splendour of his international position and achievement than by that of Ms father'?, and y-it come closer to Mm for hU homely virtue;. He may be less ot a cosmopolitan but mom of an Englishman. And if our (tore imineiiiatu business is to put our house in order, it is well that the throne should be occupied by one Who is pre-eminejitly a son of the house. He is ii.iuuu of moral courage, evidenced by the determined spirit with which at the outset of his reign ho dashed down for over certain sinister rumours which had gathered around his name and no less by his firm and uncompromising dealing with the parasitic elements which assemble about n Court. Mr. Lewis looked for tlie throne to become more and moro popular as tho deepening sense of national unit} , developed.