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Show VICTORIA'S LOVE OF LIFE. - The last letter of Queen Victoria's late husband to his daughter, the Crown Princess of Germany, contained these words: "May your life, which has begun beautifully, expand still further to the good of others and the contentment of your mind. True inward happiness is to be sought only in the internal consciousness of effort systematically directed to good and useful ends. Success, indeed, depends upon the blessings which the Most High see meet to vouchsafe to our endeavors. May this success not fail you, and may your outward life leave you unhurt by the storms to which the sad heart so often looks forward with shrinking dread." Not long before his fatal illness he said to his wife. "I do not cling to life. You do, but I set no store by it. If I know that those I loved were well cared for, I should be quite ready to die tomorrow." |
