The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-03-09 00:00:00

'tfISTOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

In the hearts of Englishmen. When, further; It was re
bored that under that spacious dome were gathered Wit the
single eeceptien of one exdlusive sect, the represent nes
of every Christian persuasion, of every religious community
iu England, who all felt that they could Join in the utter-
ances of 'Chaim's faith and hope as embodied in the veuerahle
tonna of the national Church, a living proof was afforded that
united worship within one common national sanctuary was not
'while dream. It was the pledge that a national Church, so
bound up heart end soul, life and limb with the elation and
with the State, could alone furnish such a common meeting
point ai religion ant of patriotism). It was a pledge that,
so long as the memory rif that day remained fresh,
England would not willingly consent to make over her
noblest historicel and sacred edifices to the keepiug of any
single sect or to the mere rivalry or -contentiou of private
interests. When, further, it was seen how he who wan
the central object of that vast union was there not merely
as an ordinary worshipper, but as one who by a recovery
which might well be called niarvelloua, had retunied from
the Valley of the :Madam of Death, and by a singular coin-
cidence the Primate's words of eimple warming were uttered
by no wholiail himself been recalled in a manner not less
wonderful to health and activity—n hen it was remembered
how around that youthful form life and death had
battled for long day's and nights like mortal com-
batants in a strife of which the whole English race
were the nine - struck spectators— when one glanced
at the mother, wife, brothers, sisters, and little
children, in whose anguish and anxious expecta-
tions of returning happiness, all the nation had found the
impersonation of their own joys and sorrows—then it was
felt that it was not merely a solemn service and sacred act
of adoration, but a service and worship of the most living
reality, because it arose from and gathered round a living
human creature with passions, hopes, fears, and duties, such
as everyone knew in himself, needing the same strength from
above, struggling with the same terrible temptations,
wrought in the same English mould, and inheritor of the
same destiny for weal or for woe.
Other services might be more ornate and more dramatic,
other appeals to the feelings more exciting, but the as-
semblage at St. Fauns was intent upon the simple expres-
sion of heartfelt gratitude as of sons to a father for mercy
received, and if that natural expression rows Into gigantic
proportions, it was only because the whole nation was re.
solved to bear its part therein. Not only was it a eolenin
religious festival, hut it was the ri eimnse in every English
heart of that mysterious union too subtle for analysis, which
[mend the people of England to their monarchy and the mon.
/Achy to the people. Nootherexisting thronein Europe reached
back to the same antiquity, none other combined with such un-
divided charm all the aasoeiations of the past and all the iu-
tercets of the present, and it was the else name and place
which, rising above all party struggles and all outward
agencies, 11 emit together in the widest sense all the forms of
the State and all the forces of the Church—it was the one
name and place which, being beyond the reach of personal
anihitiou, beyond the need of private gain, had the inestimable
means of guidieg and elevating the thoughts, customs, awl
morals of the whole community. It was the one institution
which, by the very nature of its existence, united the abstract
idea of country and of duty with the personal endearments of
family life and domestic hive. It was because of the greatness
of that possession, which had steadied the course of this
nation's onward progress, and given us peace in the midst
of tumult awl disorder, that we so fervently prayed and
hoped that its destined heir should be worthy of his noble
inheritance. In him henceforth, as by a new consecration,
devolved the glorious task of devoting to his country's service
that life which in a special sense was no longer his but the
nations. The Prince knew, as few in like positions had
known, the mighty power for good which had within our
own memory been exercised in that lofty sphere by one who
from early manhood to his sudden mid untimely end bore
the white dower of a blameless life, unspotted even in the
fierce light which heats upon a throne.
In the experience of the past eventful week the Prince had
had Impressed upon him by tens of thousands of voices that
of him to whom much had been given much would be re-
quired. If ardiy ever its the long course of our history had so
heartstirring a prospect been opened of beginning life
afresh, of taking the lead in all that was true and holy,
strengthening the relaxed vigour of English morals, purify-
ing the homes of tile poor aud of every grade of English
society, and becoming, by the sheer force of R. stainless life, a
terror to evil works. Over the tomb of a famous l'rince— who
was burled in that cathedral, and whose entrance upon a
new career of nobleness and goodness began when he stood
by his father's death lied within those precincts—there was
carved the flaming beacon of cresset light, which lie took for
his badge, showing thereby that as his virtues and good
points had beets fennerly obscured RS a dead coal waiting life
trm kindle it, his virtues should from that time stand forth as
the light of a ereeset. Such a kindling of such a brilliant
light, whieh might reach as far an the fame of this Thanke-
givieg, had penetrated, might God grant to him whom the
mitten hoped by its prayers to have won back to itself for
ever.
It was the glory of England that the welfare of the Sove-
reign was the welfare if the people. It was not with us as
with some Eastern despotic State, where the Royal house
kept Rpm t from all the surrounding influences of the country
and the age in whic,h its let was cast, but the breath of
public opinion, of good or evil example in our mixed and
varied syetern, rose upward as much as it descended, and it
was in the power of the people to drag down the Throne,
even in spite of itself, to the low level of self-indulgence, or
by the purity of their henna by the sincerity and loftiness of
their purposes, to create an atmosphere in which the Throne
must become pure and lofty. We justly looked down with
mbieled isidignation and contempt upon the dastardly mit-
rage against the Queen, and were aceuetomed to regard with
scorn the handful of misguided men who sought to win
popular favour by appeals to the prejudices, the passions, and
the ignorance of the people ; but these were hot the only
dangers against which the nation waa bound to protect the
Throne. If there were, as there hail been in other times and
other countries, those who, hovering round the footsteps of
Royalty, either for their can selfish ends, or lor mere a.eak-
nese and complaimuce, siught to hide the unwelcome truth
fuel welcome felsehooll ; if there were any wbo, under the
guise of friendship, played the part of tempter and evil
counsellor, these, far more than wild fanatics or feeble para-
sites of the multitude, were the real traitors and mieiniea
alike of S-vereigii. Prince, noel people. It was by our levity
that creatures such as these were encouraged in their miser-
able folly, and it wanly our fineness that they might he dis-
couraged and cowed. On these, and mils as these, whosoever
they might be, men or women, high or low, the Day of
Thanksgiving was or ought to have been, a day of doom.
In ancient days it was the custom of the Jews on solemn
occasions, when kings and people made a covenant with each
other, and with God, to ereet some towering pillar or illusive
altar, ass permanent witness of what they pledged them-
selves to do, and such a monument seas sought to be erected
In commemoration of the event of last Tuesday. The form
which that monument wais to take was the restoration and
completion of the great metropolitan Cathedral of St.
Paul's, winch received the breath of notional exultation
over the dcetnictioa of the Seaeish Armada, and the vM-
tories of Blenheim and Trafalgar, and mourned with a
mourning nation over the graves of Neleon and of Wel-
lington. The building which witnessed the covenant beta-roil
the heir to the Throne and his future people would, it was
hinted, no longer remain in its present state ; but the
glorious work which its mighty architect was compelled to
leave unfinished, and which its rnost veneraide historian and
illustrious divine laboured in vain to aceomplish, would be
Mime completed ; and the great Proteetant Cathedral would
be made worthy to look in the face the great Roman Basilica
of which it was even now a noble rival.

SPECIAL SERVICE AT SURREY CHAPEL.
Surrey Chapel, the Rev. Newman Hall's place of worship
in the Blackfriars-road, on Sunday evening, as the conse-
quence of an announcement mule in the morning that a
special Thanksgiving Service would be held in the evening,
was crowded. The ordinary prayers of the Church Service,
which ineluded those for her Majesty the Queen, His Royal
Highness the Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal
Family. were supplemented by an extemporary invocation,
wherein Divine acceptance of the natioas gratitude was im-
plored for the response given to the nett it's prayers, in
sparing the life of the Prince. An appropeste hymn, sing
apparently with fervour anti heartiness by the congregation,
was found in the words :
Before Jehovah's awful throne.
Ye nations bow with sacred jey ;
Know that the Lord is God alone,
Ile can create, and He destroy.
The reverend gentleman's discourse was founded upon
passages taken from the 67th and 103rd Psalms : 'Let (Sc
people prai,we Thee, 0 God, let all the people prai.se Thee.
Ble., the Lord, 0 my 00,141, who redeemeth thy hie from tle*-
true lion." On the great Thanksgiving Day, he commenced.
the people of England realised the words of the text as
nations seldom did before. The memory of that occasion,
he considered, would never fade s record would never be
erased irons our national history. The humblest of her sithjects
mingled with the el onarch in their thanksgiving. Prince and
peasant alike shared in sending up to Heaven a great peon
tit praise. Then he inquired as to what really constituted the
grandeur of the occas on. It was not that the streets were
lined wills drapery and filled with ilutterieg flags, which
made it difficult to recognise the old familiar thoroughfares
at other times so gloomy ; nor the triumphal arches con-
structed to enhance the occasion With ephemeral splendour,
for other cities of the Empire had surpassed even the metro-
polis in artistic devices and coloured lights ; nor was it the
grand pageant with its array of soldiery and Its crash of
trumpets and drums, for to the outward eye that was present
only as massy minutes as the crowds had icon hours waiting.
It was in the fact of the people praising God, in the
blending of the hearts of princes and people in one
common sentiment of joy, lie then proceeded to give
a description of the progress of the procession, refer-
ring to the hundreds of thousands who from the
country swelled the millions of the metropolis as
waiting for hours in densely-packed masses, patient, ex.
pedant, and happy in the hope of looking upon the face of
the young Prince whose life had been saved. This he
followed up with a glowing account of phut transpired
within St. Paul's. A foreigner, he observed, could not fail
to remark that, however diverse Englishmen might be in
opinion on certain matters, they were one in reverence for
the constitution of their country, one in homage for
the law, one in enthusiastic loyalty to the Monarch who
represented that constitution and that law, and who at the
same time WRS a pledge of the people's rights as well as
else 'symbol of power. As conveying me' illustration of
this idea, he read the Queen's letter to her subjects after the
demonstration, and remarked that it would be impertinent
on his part to comment on what spoke for itself, and which
appealed directly to the heart of every one who had a heart.
Here he took oceasiou to advert to the outrage on her Majesty,
remarking that the Indignation excited hy the act was too
deep and universal to need verbal expression, and the mere
boy who perpetrated the outrage too mean and despicable for
even the wretched notoriety which public comment might
give him. Reverting to the service in St. Paul's, he took no-
tice of the courtesy extended to Nonconformist representa-
tives, and said it proved that the Queen aid nation were one
in the same fundamental principle of religion. The discourse,
lasted user an hour, and was listened to with wrapt
attention, concluded with an argument to show the reason-
ablenees and efficacy of prayer. Replying to the scoffs of
the Positivists, he expreesed his conviction that argument
founded on instinct was much stronger than argument
founded upon mere logic.
would

UNION CHAPEL, ISLINGTON.
There was a special and remarkably interesting
Thanksgiving service ou Sunday evening at Union
Chapel, Islington, which is one of the leading metro-
politan places of worship connected with the Indepen-
dent denomination. The congregation was large, and
the minister of the chapel, the Rev. Dr. Allon,
officiated. The musical portion of the service included
the 44th and 45th chants in the "Congregational
Psalmist," the words consisting respectively of the
116th and 118th Psalm, and being exceedingly ap-
propriate to the occasion. The music of the first of
these chants was that of Oauntlett, of the second that
of Henley; and the manner in which the whole con-
gregation joined in the singing was such as to form a
striking exemplification of the grand effect of congre-
gation psalmody, when it is properly studied and
thoroughly cairied out.
In his principal prayer, Dr. Allon offered special
supplication for the Queen and the Prince of Wales,
and implored the Almighty that the recovery of the
latter from sickness might ever be held in grateful re-
collection both by the Prince and the nation. This
prayer was followed by the singing of Addison's
jubilant hymn commencing
When all Thy mercies, 0 my God.
My riaing soul surveys.
Dr. Allots chose for his text the sth verse of the 20th
chaptet of the 2nd Book of Kings—' Turn again, and
tell Hezekiah the captain of My people, thus saith the
Lord, the God of David thy father, I hare heard thy
prayer, I hare seen thy tear a: behold, I will heal thee:
on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the
Lord." _ . . .

The preacher commenced by observing that the first feel-
ing to which they gave expression in connection with the
Thanksgiving last Tuesday was a religious one. What-
ever its cause, it was indisputable that the illness of the
Prince of Wales appealed to the religious sense of tho
English people, and gave intensity to it beyond anything that
he could recall since the Spanish Armada. All of religiima
feeling that the English people were capable of was experl-
enced then. There might have been times in the history of
the Commonwealth—when the death of the King was resolved
upon, w hen some great battle wan pending, or when Cromwell
himself lay dead—when the whole nation prayed but then
they prayed initiostile camps, and with antogonistic meanings.
NV hat f eellngs the recovery of Geer ge I he Third really awakened
they wore unable to estimate; but it could hardly have been
possible,untler the political dream stances of the llines,but th at
the national thanksgiving was impelled more by duty, poli-
tical and religions, than by sentiment. In the death of
Prince Albert there were elements of a deeper sentiment
than had laces now excited. lied his Illness been pro-
tracted, his great virtues, his priceless counsels, his religious
goodness, anti the dependence upon him, for all her hap-
piness and for much of her usefulness, of our comparatively
young Queen and her juvenile family would have touched
the heart of the people more deeply, rind quickened to
greater intensity Its religious and prayerful feeling. But the
fatal termination of his illness was almost the first iutima-
Gott of its serious character. A paroxysm of deep feeling, there'
ft le, a Idell was indeed an agony and emotion, loinsltled tato a
simply graver and more tender normal caudition ; although
from that day to this our prayers for the Queen had been
fuller of meaning, of tenderness, and of sympathy than ordi-
nary prayers for rulers can be,
lhe signiacance of the Thenksgiving of Tnesday was that
it was ahnost purely a mere sentiment. Everybody would
feel that they were speaking falsely if they assumed a re-
ligions diameter In the Prince such as they recognised in
his lather and were assured of in his mother. Whatever his
course might have been, he bail fallen thort of thit, or at
least it was universally assumed that he had. This gave
significance to their prayers, and was a severe test of them.
When his life flickered ready to go out, when he wee ap-
parently in the very precincts of that tribunal where to he
a prince was of no account rave that it augmented the re-
sponsibility of life, it was no time to palter with conviction,
to pay indirect adulation to Royalty in their prayers and
if their pleadings for his life were earnest, anti still more
absorbing were their wrestlings for his salvation. That the
feeling excited was that of loyal sentiment—that an element of
deep pathos entered into it—was beyond all question. A
young man, the heir to the Throne, the son of a beloved
and revered Queen, the husband of a virtuous and inte-
resting wife, the father of a young family of children,
with the very highest prospects that earth can open to
almost any form of feeling, was soddenly stricken down
by fever, and lay in helplessnees, a helpless nation look-
ing on. All this constituted a natural pathos that human
hearts could not be insensible to. But this sen-
timent took a religious expression. M. TaMe, a French
critic who knew England better than most foreigners
did, had recently said that the great characteristic of the
English people was that at heart they were religious. How
far that was true compared with other nations they had
no call to speculate. That it was true absolutely was be-
yond question. From some cause or other Christianity had
taken a deep hold of our English nature. Throughout our
history it had been manifest in Lollardie, in the reforma-
tion, at the defeat of the Spanish Armada, in the character
Si the Commonwealth, and of both oar Revolutions. Never
did the religious life of England nod more varied or more
vigorous expression, than it did now in philanthropies, in
schools, In Missions, in miscellaneous nitniatries of things
both temporal and spiritual, in ameliorations of social evils,
in gentleness and graciousnesa of social relations. Whatever
evils might yet remain—evils of moral character, or of class
selfishmea, or of hard worldlinese—and they were legion—
they were relatively less than they ever were. In every
national and social queetion the practical influence of re-
ligious principle and sentiment was were powerfully felt.
The Thanksgiving of Tuesday was but the complement of
the prayer of clew weeks ago. Of necessity there was much
of mere pageant. But was not the very pageant a recog-
nition of God—an act of worship to film? Was not the
entire holielsty—were not Its manifold rejoicings—a religious
thanksgiving : not, Mcleod, in the realisation of all, any
more than church worship was, butte the thought of multi-
tudes ? Was there no expreesion of thankfulness to God but
In formal praise 9 Was there not thankfulness in social
festivities—in mere gl idness of heart—in hearty rejoiciage
Celtaiuly a true life was in all its acts a service, is all its re-
joicings a eucharist ; and G we failed of this In a day of
festivity like Tin:Bday, it was because of our defective
feeling, not because of there being any
.cletect in the various
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iservkief re wain It fpr more of religions feeling than of the prosecution, that the blow with the poker was the
play *
ritual ege 10.
ritual t It yam simple Permit the ' prekinonte capso ol the death of the deceased. These
Ipeling, igg mislay nudatenedi
eye, many a choking sensatiirly—as simple thanks- Web e the in fact!, di the case as stated by the learned
giving and earnest Myer took -a- -personal reference, counsel for the prosecution in his opening speech, but
and lie who had been brought oat Of the very shadow of it was stated in addition that the prisoner, for some
death stood ourrouoded by wife and children, mother and reason or other, was desirous at one time of promoting
brothers, bowed his head before the 'nation,
unaccustomed
t and &Allow- the prosecution against her husband, but the differ-
ledged H owe
im who heareth prayer—shd how deep and ence, whatever it was, was made up between them,
religious the feeling was. Meu o religious
emotion bowed under it then. Few, he thought, were the and she was desirous to live with him again, and
hearts among those 13,000 people who, consciously or uncon- wished to take away her furniture for that purpose,
sciously, did not worship. he, for one, must regard it as a and this led to to the dreadfuloccurrence that was now
great act of worship that a 'great commercial nation like the subject of inquiry.
England, includiug the chief iutelligence of the world and Dr. Kenealy, at the close of the case for the prose-
absorbed in its chief commerce, should thus, after a wide-
spread and earnest pleading of prayer spontaneously and cution, submitted ton behalf of the 'senor) that there
formally in the sight of the world set apart a day for roll- was no evidence to go to the jury to support the
glens thanksgiving. Whatever the degree of spiritualness charge of either wilful murder or manslaughter.
attained in it, few refused accordance with its seotiment, Baron Channel], however, said he did not like to
and these few had ventured on no protest or demur sto the case and he would rather Dr. Kenealy should
against it. Not a newspaper or magazine that he had met „P
with had disparaged this national avowal of religions address the jury.
sentiment The learned counsel accordingly proceeded to do so,
Another great fact which this Thanksgiving had revealed and he said the case he had to submit to them was that
was the deeply-rooted loyalty of the Englinh people. Nor the evidence as to the conduct of the prisoner was
would anyone say
lik gl h that with
superstiti an intelln. igeut and free nation very much exaggerated, and that the death hat arhsen
e the Eitis this was a oSociety was an from physical accident, occasioned by the condithin of
stitution of God, its government was part of the Divine
order for the education and service of nian. The powers excitement in which the deceased lady was at the
that be are ordained of God." "lie who resisteth the time. lie thought it right to inform them that the
power resisteth the ordinance of God ;" that is, anarchy was prisoner was a lady by birth and education ; idle was
a godless visitation of the Divine order. Government was the widow of a medical gentleman of great eminence,
more than a social contract, just as family life ant authority who had such unbounded confidence in the prisoner,
were—it was an ordinance of God. This was true of all
de facto Government', Republican as well as Monareht that at his death he left her the wAiole of his
cal. Men had long ceased to believe in the Divine property. 'lire prisoner had, no doubt; contracted
right of kings. Revolution against any Government, an unfortunate niarriage with a person named Port-
when as a Government It was false or tyraunical, bury, and the circumstance it appeared had thrown
might become a religious national duty. Monarchy was the deceased lady into a state of almost maniacal ex-
sacred °My as a Republigove c was sacred, because it was a power citement, and she had treated the prisoner ever since
that is. The form of rnment that should exist in a .
nation depended solely upon the will of the nation. Nations In a most violent and insulting manner; and the ex-
did not exist for the sake of governments, but governments citement she had exhibited on the day in question, he
for the sake of nations. Who could doubt if the English said, no doubt was the cause of the bursting of the
people preferred a Republic to a Monarchy they would be blood-vessel which occasioned the death of the deceased.
Justified by every
chang principlewere there
of morality and religion in effect- Baron Channel having briefly summed up the
ing the e r They loyal, fore, not because of .
any Divine right of kings, but because the Monarchy ful-
evidence, the jury almost immediately returned a ver-
filled the uses of government as perfectly as any other form of diet of Not Guilty.
rule would be likely lode because it respected the freedom of
the nation, anti ruled for its welfare; and because the personal
monarch was virtumis, loyal to her people, and wise hater rule.
Were an individual sovereign wortidem is character and
foolish in ride, it might still be a duty, for the sake of avoiding
greater evils, to bear with him, to limit as far as possible his
power of mischief, and to wait until a nobler successor
should conic. But when the monarch was all that our
Queen had been—virtuous beyond reproach. faithful
to her constitutional position—when the law of her
rule w-as the welfare of her people—when she had never
strained her prerogative for selfish ends—when her
example was noble, her influence pure, her rule faultless—
then the general obligation to be subject to the higher
powers, the simple sense of right and wisdom in so doing
passed into II e higher, nobler passion of affectionate,
reverence. We were glad and proud of our monarch; she
ruled our affections as well as our consciencea. Becauee she
respected the rights and liberties of her people, her people
loved her, lien was the proud distinction of ruling over
free men who accorded her a willing and spontaneous
homage, and who would even to the death maintain her
rule against foes without, against anarchy within.
It might sometimes be imperative to depose a Government,
just as it might be to resist an invasion. But even when re-
volution was imperative it suspended all precision fruits, and
repressed all the highest good of a nation's life. Material
prosperity was wasted, household joy was cruelly sacrilteed,
social peace was broken in upon, and the great evangelical
work of the Chuich se-au arrested. For eighty years the nati
nearest to us had terribly exemplified the manifold
evils of anarchy; and was it too much to say that
France had borne and been the chief curse of
Europe ? At all events they saw enough to demand
thankfulness for a long-established rule—a Govern-
ment under which freed,,in was harmonised with order.
Many things there were among us that yet needed reform—
glaring abuses which tradition had enshrined, but which
neither reason nor right feeling could justify ' • but he for one
rejoiced in the wise caution which would for awhile bear
with evils through fear of destroying good. The greatest re-
form needful for them was not worth a natioual convulsion.
Let them speak their thought, urge it upon men's conviction,
but leave the thing to be wrought by conviction, not force it
simply lomause it was theirs
" We are thankful," said the preacher in conchtsion, "that
the Prince, the heir to the throne, is spared to the widow ed
heart of the Queen, to the loving hearts of his family, but we
must look anxiously, yearningly, for the fruits of this Mille-
tinn Such a sickness could leave no man where it found
hum. Therein scarcely any man whose character and destiny
it would net determine. Anti wheu one thinks of the acci-
dental influences that have been ad-led to that of the mere
sickness—of the consciousness that a whole nation has
prayed for his recovery; that a whole nation has sought
to express its thanks to God ; that it has been generously
ready to condone whatever may have been the faults of
his youth, and the temptations of his perilous position that
may have been yielded to—when one saw the Prince gazing
upon that upturned sea of faces, welcomed with acclama-
tions that were simply amazing is their fervmr—one feels
that it has been a crisis in his history such as rarely occurs ;
that it cannot have left him as it found him ; that it will
either soften Ids heart into the piety and patriotism of a
lifetime, into grateful love both to God who has so spared,
and to the people who have so generously lavished their
alketien, or it will have produced a callomness that there
seems no mightier spell left to tench. Our prayers for
the Prince—for Albert the son of Vietoria—are nit ended ;
rather are they but just begun. When ore thinks of the
possible future—of the mighty influence that the Sovereign
of Ea laud most wield, of the social virtue that must result
from his virtue, of the political and national weight that
must attach to his high-minded character, of the encoum ;e-
-meat to religion that his healthy, maely piety most give—
one feels that mighty issues ore at stake, that prayers for
him should be made continually ; and now especially. that
the gracious softenings of soul which must ever follow such
a sickness and such an expression of public sentiment, that
the vows and prayers which most have been uttered while
he was In trouble, and especially when the mighty power of
a nation's thanks and love must have bowed him to the
very dust in humility, gratitude, and gracious purpose—
may bear their proper fruits—that this mould into which Ids
melted soul has been run may be permanent in its form—
that this Wilderness which divine and human love has
wrought may be cherished by humble prayer and pions
resolution—that in steadfast purpose and lowly self-dilli-
fence he may lift to the God who has so mercifully spared
him his eje and his heart, and say, "0 Lord, Only I am Thy
servant and the eon of Olive handmaid ; Thou bast loosed ntY
bonds."
Dwight's hymn commencing "God bless our native
leach" was then sung to the tune of the National
Anthem, and a thanksgiving, collection made on behalf
of a Mission School in the Caledonian-road ; after
which the congregation were dismissed with the bene-
diction.