The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-16 00:00:00

CHAPEL ROYAL, ST. JAMES'S.

•
At both of the services on Sunday, special mention was
made of the dangerous illness of the Prince. An able and Im-
prosalve sermon was preached at the midday service by the
kev (anon prothero, chaplain in ordinary to tier Majesty,
front Romans slit. v. 12—" The night G far opent, the day
to at hand." After some appropriate general reflections
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Ls deeply moved and the Imagination stirred. tied seen II
to recall us to a state of soberer thought and more
practical contemplation by a calamity which comes home to
us each Individually and forces us to take that more personal
view of the Apostle's announcement in the text, which,
RS far RS our own soils are concerned, is certainly the most
solemn, impreasive, and important. fluid this is especially
tree wheu the calamity conies in the double character of a
national and personal sorrow, such as seems at present im-
pending over this realm, vs-lies too heart of the people, NS
the heart of one man, is moved to its very depths at the an-
ticipated trouble, and the cloud which hangs at this moment
am I an anxious awl downcast family embraces within
Its shadow the remotest parts of the empire. There is, in-
deed, a grief with which no stranger Interauedilles, but In
this land, happily, the sorrows of a Queen are the sorrows
of the peeple, and whatever sympathy and tenderest condo-
lence can do to mitigate grief, that will never be denied by
a people so loyally true as the people of this laud. But at
this moment we stand confronted by a calandty which can
scarcely be said to be more hers than our own, and we are
scarcely lees moved by the danger, which we pray Cod to
avert from this realm, than we are by the possible loss of a
Prince to whom the whole nation has given such simple but
unfeigned expirssion of its attachment. Awl, surely,
while it moot be wrong to read is such an impending grief
a warning to the whole nation, who Ruder it, bringing home
to every man's hearth the Apostle's admonition, "tile
night is far spent, the day is at hand," neither can it be
wrong to remind you of the simple duties which arise out
of the truth solemnly impressed on its, Such Is the use to
which the Apostle himself aimlies his warning, which lie
prefaces by an invitation to Christian love and obedience.
At the early morning service the same all-absorbing subject
was referred to in his sermon by the Rev. 1,. Cat den, M.A.,
Sub-dean of the Chapels RoyaL

Special prayers were offered at ewl service for the re-
covery of the Prince, and also ou lanhalf of the Queen and
the Princess of Wales.

CHAPEL ROYAL, WHITEHALL.
•
The Rev. W. Jones, who preached the sermon at the morn.
ing service at the %ape] Royal, Whitehall, took hieetext from
the let Epistle et st. Paul to the Corinthians, let chapter, 7th
verse--" Waiting far the routing If our Lord Jerur Christ.''
Enlarging upou his text the rev, gentleman said that for days
past the eyes of all had been drawn with straining gore to
tile spot where one whmn England held dear lay strug-
gling for I ife. Inning that time all had been anxiety
Mil eager suspense. Hope had been alternating with
fear. A disease always daltgerollB alld often fatal seemed
at first, under skilful treatment, to Ito unaccompanied by any
Putt the ordinary symptoms. Pay by day men began mere
strongly to believe that all would yet be well. Then graver
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Inquiries and ie expression of serious apprehension. Vet
again a little while and hope was in the ascendant. It was
said that the fever was daily abating, and was running its
ordinary course within well-understood channels, lint on
Friday a different tale was told, and In every town and
village in the land were exhibited the moat marked anxiety
and a feeling of deep and bitter suspense. " How will it
end was the oft-repeated question. A precious life still
stood trembling In the balance, struggling against the
prostration and exhaustion of a severe malady. hut we
were net without the consolation that our prayers had not
been altogether unavailing, and we were How called upon
with the united force of a nation's supplication to implore
the Almighty to grant to the Royal sufferer the blessings of
Increased etrength and power of endurance, to give comfort
and Joy to those who grieved beside his bed of eickness, and
who, with loving hearte, administered to his needs. "May
God, in His mercy," added the preacher, "hoar England's
cry to-day,"