The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-12-23 00:00:00

TUE PARISH CHURL!! OE S.LNDUIN,AIAUr.

On Sunday the queen, Princess-Alice, and Princess Louise,
with Prince Louts of nesse and the Duke of Cambridge, at-
tended public worship at the little parish church of Sand-
ringham, which adjoins Sandringham House. The queen
was attended by the Duchess of Roseburghe and Colonel
Ponsonby, the Princes. of Wales by the Counteeit Mac-
cleatleld and Colonel Me. General Sir William K nays was
also in attendance. and most of the officeri of the household
at Sandringham wore present.... The service was pleasingly
chanted by the children from the schools of the Prince*, if
M ales, the Prime, and the rector, who support them by
joint in, tributhots. There are about 60 children, with
schools from the parishes of Sandringham. Paliingley, and
the neighbourhood. The special prayer appointed by the
Privy council, and omntersigned by the Queen, was reed
from the text prepared by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
Last week this prayer had not reached Sandringham in timn
to take the place of that which had been prepared by Mr.
Onslow for the private use of the Princess of ibalos and
residents at Sandringham, and of which i gave the text at
the time, it being received lip telegraph just in time to be
read last week in the church. at Lynn, but not at
Siutdringhatu. Besides this authorized form of prayer,
the prayers of the congregation were specially he.
sought before the Litany for the prince and for Charles
Meg;, who were by c onmand jointly commended to the
prayers of those worshipping In the church. The lad on
Saturday night and Sunday was in very considerable peril.
On sunday evening he was believed to he a little relieved.
and was visited by the Princess of Wales. The players of
the congregation were not less earnest than before for the
Prince, but the feeling of hope mingled with the prayer was
perceptibly reflected in every face the sermon Was preached
by the reetor front the test, •• / teal ring of nu rev and icily.
inent ; unto Thee, 0 Lord, rill I ring," Psalm let. it dwelt
on the mingled .liBpelitualon of mercy and hime under which
we live, its teachings and uses. The preacher dwelt im the
noes of adversity anti the bitter-swert lemons to be derived
front those misfortunes, arguing that good and evil, juilg-
Meld and mercy, are mingled together in such proportion B 8
may always work together for Our good. The preacher con-
cluded thus :

on broiled knees all Britain with one throb Of Impulse
has been pleading low before the Throne of ltrace for the
life of a loved one. From the extreniest fringes if this
mighty nation have converged the propels, the thought.,
the feelings, and the hopes of all towards this quiet collier
of Norfolk, where lies in attiolla illness the 1.1. e of his
mother's people. tiod be praised that these prstyers sot
yearningr have not been so water poured upon the ground !
T here went up to Heaven the pn,yers not of Britain alone,
nut of the world Across the Atlantic, our Canadian
brethren on the lake shores and In the pine forests, on the
consta and on the prairies our American blood kindred, have
prayed heartily for our Prince in every sect slot tome
of a faith : while all Europe had watched w ith anxiety
thetas:WS ot the Prince's illness. Put from other continents
than Europe and Anierka has prayer for hint heel, fervently
linen it. Far away, Oil the shores of Bombay, the Parsec
Ims preen:y.l himself bef..re Ms tire iont to pray that Peg-
limit's elde,t, son may be spared to take his leanly and true
part Pi that battle life, which all, whether standing by
the throne or at the cottage door must equally Mit
In the Holy city of Jeraliaili or, too, the children of
that 1-1,1 of old Sr lit tip to the common
God ti,e!r fi rvent prayers, heartily,. eari.estly, and fah il-
fitl!y, as h d aVe one the if.dires ain thinner own land,
showlig a loyalty and feeling second to none. It
matters not w bother we turn north, south, east, or west
all have sent up their entreaties to the Throne if lira,.
Thank Cud that by His infinite merry they have, as we
hope, been answered ! Ni. one of iny hearers but is cogLizant
of manly, generous, kindly acts done in days of health by
him who now lies yonder. The ready ayillp .thy, the open
Land. the .4encrons illiptilSe were ever his. ii n here among
whim, he has lived without state, we elaini 1~ I.
he is and equally ,we claim to love him with that personal
lore that knowledge alone can give."
Her Majesty and the Princesses left at the Clue if the first
part of she first service. The Queen and Princesses and the
Princess id Wales appeared to be in eteelli spirits anti
grant health, and a general spirit of cheerfidneas and thanks-
giving pervaded the whole congregation.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Edinburgh, Mace
Arthur, Prince Leopold, and Princeas Beatrice, attended by
Captain Haig, Lieutemmt Pizard, Lady C. Barrington, and
Mr Collins, left Sandringham last Saturday morning shortly
before eleven o'clock fir Loudon and Windsor Castle, the
improvement in the health of the Prince of Wel, sand the
favourable progress made towards convalescence by the
Royal sufferer within the last few days having conaiderably
mitered the minds of the (Pieta.' family as to the result of
the Prince's illness. _ _

Monday.
The condition In which the Fein, now lies may be Likened
to that of the ehipwrecked-mariner who has been cast
ashore by a wave just as he was sinking, after a long and
terrible battle, beneath the roar of waters, and who, prone
on the beach, is beyond risk of drowning indeed, but who
needs, neverthelem, much and long time and care to enable
him to • tome to.' The simile fails hi one poiht.
Grant to native force of constitution, or to strength
of tissues, to stamina, or whatever It may bo called.
its full share in the successful issue of the conflict,
yet we may he sure that hail the Prince loon left to
stniggle with his enemy as a swimmer with the tide he must
have gone down. We are not alluding to the Power which
controls and decides. But among the human or • secondary
causes: us they are termed, it moat Le remembered that
human agencies had a large part. The part which was taken
in the fray by those on whose words hour after hour, for day
after day, millions have been hanging, comet lie ever nicely
apportioned or justly set out, but it is not possible to conceive
a position more trying to mind mollooly than that of the physi-
chins who for more than lime necks have been subjected
tea stress of futility, of physical and mental strain, only to
be imagined by these who know and feel how men like
the,: who waited and watched by such a lost appreciated
their eespousibilities, awl were moved by the signs aiiii
tokens,, familiar to their practised seines. The hope cf
the Empire was in their hands as far as lionmn knowledge
slid renninoa could place it within the scope of their art.
The accessories ot a scene lit which they were playing
parts so grave were of a kind to test every nerve.
outside the nails of Sandringham a nation in agony;
inside, a widowed mother and Queen, a wife mid
Princeas, dear to the people, the sight of whose
emotions must have been almost as trying as their own
caeca But surely those who have nielercone trials only in.
tenor to those of the sufferer himself are sot to be for-
gotten. If the nation rejoices and is thankful, it ought
not to forget what it owes to the skill and science,
to the devotion tel seLfeacriflce, in every sense en-
tire and complete, of the phyaielane. Sir W. Jenner would
be the first to extol the mertions of the eolleague who
has earned from all at Sandringham, what he values probably
only BerOltil to the approbation of his conscience, the deepest
gratitude. In lir. (hill were sonliined euenrY that timer
tired, watchfelnesa that never flaggel—nursing so tender,
ministm so minute. that in Ids functions he IN:0111.1 t4l Com-
b]ue the duties of physician, dresser, dispenser, valet nurse
- now Arguing with the sick man in his delirium so softly awl
pleasantly that the parche I lips opened to take the scanty
nourishment on widish depended the reeerves of strength for
the deadly flulit when all else (idled, Sow liftiiig the wasted body
from bed to bed, um• washing the worn frame with vinegar,
with ever-easily eye sod ear and flutter to nark any chneke
and phase, to watch face Lid heart and pulse. 311.1 paining
at Woes 12 iee 14 hours at that bedside. And when that
was ,ver, or while it was going on—what a task far the
physleme soothe with kindest and yet not too hope-
ful words her whose trial was indeed grrat to bear, to give
counsel against Jespair and yet not to judlfy confidence.
These things I hese, ai it It is only jest they alma] lo
known, for very certain is it that from him of whom they
are said not one word of the truth like this would ever
come."

Monday Night.

Exactly one month has elapsed since the Proice took to
his bed with ty 0141 fever. .. The onset of the symptoms
In the case of bis Royal llihoeea was extrt on; slow ead In-
sidious. So much so that the precise date which the
period incubation ceased and that of the fey, process coin.
roomed cannot even now be settled with minty. It is
always very dillicult and In cases in which the fore-
trs of the fever are of an un I cided, awaked
und gradual character, inch as they often n", and certainly
were In this case, the date of the ouninenc ment of the fever
can mil, be mated approximately. There ....to reason in the
first Instance to date it from the lath of .ovember. Loiik-
Ine, however, to the eircomstanceof thew, serbation of fever
during the last weak, and to Its mode of t, eminati ~,, , it wilt
seem probable that the fever process did ”ot actmilly eon-
merest it., omrse until a later date, and th t it was coiveetly
diagnosed at a very early stage. The ordinary duration of
typhoid fever). correctly spoken of as being from three to
flair weeks, lint It iometimes exceeds 30 days. 111 75 cases
calculi/Led by Dr. Miirchiaon, the duration Was 12 days in
roe caw, frost 14 to 21 days in ID; 22 to as in 40, 29 or 30
days in nine, and above 30 in Ix eases. Thus, In nearly
thiee-fourtha of the total number the ilitiation exceoled
three wveks, and In the fifth it was more than four weeks.
The inoidental complication if severe broneldal catarrh
towards the close of the fever, and near the 30th clay,
will suffice to explain the protraction of the febrile
symptoms beyond that date ; and although Stewart,
limner, and other authorities have established the peculiar
semleoey of typhoid to anomalous and reel. overlapsing re-
lames, without intervening periods of deferveecenee, the nest
indications which this cage offered that such might occur here
lave most happily not been subsequently followed by the
last phenomena of the illness The period of restzic-
tine of the fever and of -the establishment of the con-
valescence through which- •the Prince Is paseing, not
rapidly, hut still favourably, is. gradual raw., not
marked by any oritical days :or Axed periods from
which any certain •-presage. can be drawn. Even liar
log convalescence retinae. &EC "continually observed. In one
tabulated set of 142 case., they occurred In ten. In another
tabulated set f 150. case, they occurred In six. These re-
lapse., however, -even when severe, are rarely fatal. Of the
ten relapse. j oat mentioned only one ended badly, and one
also in • second set—let me say two at once. Of the other
eetitiehe which sometimes Interrupt convalescence by comp-
lications there do not appear to be any grounds for present
fear. The physicians have been peculiarly successful in
averting any of those Retinue symptoms which leave mischief
beyond .they have most successfully managed throughout the
intestinal lesion, which Is apt to be most persistently trouble-
some, and there is no reason to believe at this ino-
ment there Is any further trace of such mischief. The
, Prince sleeps tranquilly ; he takes nourishment well, and he

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is gaining strength. Ile will for some Woe require careful
watching, Judicial dieting, and good nursing. It Is seedless
tnuisy lew happily twin placed for the ample (111111[11NA of all
those requirementi. This leads my to say a word of actin',
leilgment fairly due tio those ministers—those most essential
minstere—to the oh k, Ow nurses, who have won golden
opiniota and nmet gracious and kindly thankn by their ad-
mirable and unfailing liCVotion C. the Prince. Tki,
is aa fllOaeaeS hich severely tests the endur-
ance, the kw, Use sleepless watchfulnees of the
nursita, The binee has beta Watched 1p Mn. Jolla, wits
wade nurse from at. Bartholomew 'is Hospital, the some who
attended she Prince. 1 Widen faithfully and devotedly
throsighout the painfal affection of the knee I..bat trent hich
her Itoyal themerr suffered, and she hhs since remained at-
tached to the establishment. The nurse of the Prince, in
addition to Are Jonos, was firs. Thome., her sister. a fever
nutse, aleo from St. Partholioncw's Hospital. Their thy. Von
has been untiring, and has been noticed with characteris-
tically gracious thank (Meese. Attended with all
that the best medical skill and all that the most
devoted affection and service van Mforri, the
Prince will pass through the period of convalescence with all
the advantages which these can otter, and, aided by a
naturally good conatitution, will. hi Is hoped, he speedily
restored to health and outiliii.r life. It is a material question
to ink how soon. This is, however, of course, not so easy
to answer. Probably, with the present indications, It might
he expected that the Prince will be able to get out of doors
In three weeks. or perhaps four weeks but something here
will depend, got only MI the continuance of the present
state if convalescence, but upon the state of the woollier
at that dote. something of speculation is rife as tin the
Prince's passing some lout of the cold season in a mild health
retort, lost this Is quite premature.

In London, otanunday at noon, (Mom Kingsley preached in
the Chapel Royal, at, James's, tea full congregation. Ile chose
as his text the 14th versed( the 19th chapter of the Second Book
of Samuel, comparing the circumstances there referred to situ
those which have recently moved the heart od this nation
as the heart of one man, lie ascribed the deep sympathy
felt with the Royal Family M loyalty pure and simple, an
*lnstinct, he LIM, which is espet hilly strong In the Teutonic
races, and in none more than in the English and Scotch. and
whkh In lair own time ha. henn shown to be enn''hling. not
degrading, by that mighty Gierznan Army wldch has aston-
ished the world.

Dean Stanley addressed an immensecongregation In West
°Ouster A bbey, on Sunday at ternoon, taking as hi* tent the 10th
v of the tat chap. of Rev, lie compared the call with which
Itinglishmen have just been annum' from their various per-
enim to that which had aroused Mt John In his solitude, and
dwelt on the moral and spiritual eft cot tof that mire which
came, not from falling thrones or blood... Mined battle.fleida
but troika angle sick chamber In aa English country house.
Both before and after the sermon Mr. Tule, the organist,
played the National Anthem.

The Rev. F. J. Holland preached an admirable sermon on
Sunday morning, at Quebec Chapel, upon the subject which
Is uppermost in the nine's of us all, the present state of
I ' who we hope and trust will live to he our future
Monarch. The text was taken from the 2t0.11 charder of
Proverbs, " While the righteotte ore in au Merits/ the inovie
rejoice, but aehen the wicked beareth rule 0.. peoph.,„tnotirn."
The preacher recalled the sorrow laid intense anxiety
evinced en Sunday sick, ishien the Prince might las said to
be at the point of death, when the very issues of life and
death hung in the balance and the physicians themselves
were unable to say which scale would outweigh the other.
It had even been said that death was a mere matter of hours,
and the patient had to light it out, air it were, alone with
death, since all that human skill could effect seemed to have
been tried in vain. During these moments of anguish and
almost despair, the prayererd England were being directed to
Heaven in behalf of the Reyal sufferer and those who mounted
by his bedside. England's prayers have amen heard—he who ap-
peared to be at the pi tint of death is now on the road to re-
covery. The 14th of December, ten years rum sadly memorable
for one of the greatest •d national calamities, the death id the
Prince Consort. has this year given a Prim.e back to us. The life'a
work of the Prince Consort was finished ; that of the Prince
of Walee is yet unfinished. The preacher pointed I tilt what
good cause there is for special eyrupathy with the mother
and wife of the Prince. It would be dishonest and self-lying
to liken our Queen auy ordinary parboil who deserves no
more then an outward semblance of sympathy, for she is our
possession, and has a right to expect our warmest attach-
ment. Referring to the text, the preacher pointed out bow
justly our s•ivereign deservgs the esteem of her subjects, mad
asked what ruler ever had more claim to England's gratitude.
The private virtues of Charles I were ei material:kneed l want
of good faith towards his people. Victoria has of her own
free will accepted all the principles of constitutional
monarchy. Mr. Holland dwelt finally with great eareest-
tress upon the necessity of the Prince being impressed with
the sentiment that the country which is offering up its
prayers for his preservation desires him to be a bright ex-
ample to her, to discouratenimee frivolity, and to live in
purity and uprightness Anyone," he said, "of his friends
who should dare to speak of his illness in his presence with
levity would lie most vile." It is the duty of all serious and
sincere friends to use their endeavours to induce him to
exercthe his great influence aright. Those who surround him
roust persuade him to read through and through all that has
been written it. the most notable journals. and let him see
that England still expects everysuan to do his duty.