FROM QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 39, 17 February 1915, Page 7

FROM QUEEN ALEXANDRA.

NEW YEAR’S MESSAGE TO THE WOMEN OF THE EMPIRE. Queen Alexandra lias sent a characteristic New Year message to the Women of the Empire, especially those who have lost loved ones in the war. It is a message of encouragement, brimful of that tender human sympathy that links all women who boar great sorrows heroically. She writes: I wish to send to the “Women of the Empire,” at this great crisis in our history, a message of hope and consolation for the New Year You have been through a. period of groat suffering by the loss of dear ones, and many more sacrifices will yet be demanded of you ; hut T feel that they will be borne with that patience and fortitude which have supported and sustained you throughout the last five terrible months. You have suffered in a great and just cause, and my earnest prayer is that in your sorrow you may lie consoled by the thought that those who are near and dear to you have died like heroes for their King ami country. May God pour his infinite blessings upon you in whatever calamities you are called upon to bear, until the blessings of peace once more dawn unon us. ALEXANDRA. The message of solace, prayer, and hope is sent through the editor of the Gentlewoman.