![]() ![]() Our thoughts of God are started by the history of His dealings with our fathers through the long ages.ģ. The mountains were the "hills of God" the winds were the "breathings of God the thunder was the "voice of God." The saints of God, in all the ages, have found one Being who is in everything, who is the life of everything, but they have found that they could enter into personal relations with Him.ġ. To him the grand things of nature were full of God. The Jew associated the thought of God with everything. HOW PRECIOUS TO ME ARE MY THOUGHTS OF THEE. ![]() It is the sense of God as a "fellow-person" which this good man had. The devout soul cherishes these thoughts, and they become to it a joy unspeakable. : - The sense of God's nearness brings thoughts of God. God bless you all.How precious also are your thoughts to me, O God! how great is the sum of them!… I ask you now to cherish them - and practise them too then we can go forward together in peace, seeking justice and freedom for all men.Īs this day draws to its close, I know that my abiding memory of it will be, not only the solemnity and beauty of the ceremony, but the inspiration of your loyalty and affection. It gives expression, as I pray it always will, to living principles, as sacred to the Crown and Monarchy as to its many Parliaments and Peoples. Parliamentary institutions, with their free speech and respect for the rights of minorities, and the inspiration of a broad tolerance in thought and expression - all this we conceive to be a precious part of our way of life and outlook.ĭuring recent centuries, this message has been sustained and invigorated by the immense contribution, in language, literature, and action, of the nations of our Commonwealth overseas. I have been speaking of the vast regions and varied peoples to whom I owe my duty but there has also sprung from our island home a theme of social and political thought which constitutes our message to the world and through the changing generations has found acceptance both within and far beyond my Realms. Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God's Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen. I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire of societies old and new of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. Then, although my experience is so short and my task so new, I have in my parents and grandparents an example which I can follow with certainty and with confidence. ![]() He shares all my ideals and all my affection for you. In this resolve I have my husband to support me. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust. I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. But their spirit and their meaning shine through the ages never, perhaps, more brightly than now. The ceremonies you have seen today are ancient, and some of their origins are veiled in the mists of the past. It is hard for me to find words in which to tell you of the strength which this knowledge has given me. All of you, near or far, have been united in one purpose. ![]() Many thousands of you came to London from all parts of the Commonwealth and Empire to join in the ceremony, but I have been conscious too of the millions of others who have shared in it by means of wireless or television in their homes. I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and ocean in the world, were united to support me in the task to which I have now been dedicated with such solemnity. Throughout this memorable day I have been uplifted and sustained by the knowledge that your thoughts and prayers were with me. When I spoke to you last, at Christmas, I asked you all, whatever your religion, to pray for me on the day of my Coronation - to pray that God would give me wisdom and strength to carry out the promises that I should then be making. Her Majesty The Queenįollowing her Coronation on 2 June 1953, The Queen made a broadcast in the evening, reflecting on the events of the day, thanking the public for their support and promising to serve the nation: ![]()
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