Monument to Princess Elizabeth
Matthew 11:28 AV
Come unto me,
all [ye] that labour
and are heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Anecdote
Princess Elizabeth
In Newport church, in the Isle of Wight, lies buried the Princess Elizabeth (daughter of Charles the First). A marble monument, erected by Queen Victoria, records in a touching way the manner of her death.
She languished in Carisbrook Castle during the wars of the Commonwealth — a prisoner, alone, and separated from all the companions of her youth, till death set her free.
She was found dead one day, with her head leaning on her Bible, and the Bible open at the words, “Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”
A monument in Newport church records this fact.
It consists of a female figure reclining her head on a marble book, with our text engraven on the book.
- Think, my brothers what a sermon in stone that monument preaches.
- Think what a stunning memorial it affords of the utter inability of rank and high birth to confer certain happiness.
- Think what a testimony it bears to the lesson before you this day — the mighty lesson that there is no true rest for any one excepting in Christ.
Happy will it be for your soul if that lesson is never forgotten.
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