The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-01-27 00:00:00

DEAN STANLEY AT GLASGOW.

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experience

On Sunday Dean Stanley preached to a crowded congrega-
tion in St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Ills text sr as the 5.1.nd
verse of the 11th chapter of the Gospel according to St.
Luke, and the suliject the education of our Lord. In the
course of Ins sermon the preaciner referred to the fact that
the special form of prayer and thanksgiving for the
recovery of the Prince of Wales had been used throughout
the realm, adding i—We are called upon to give thanks
for the completion of a stage in the education of the
nation, and of a precious life within the nation. We were
tried and tested by an unexpected appeal to cur better
feelings in the prospect of a great bereavement Impending
over a fondly dear to all of us, the prospect of a sudden
rent in the continuity of our historical existence That
trial, for ourselves, has Teen mercifully ordered, both to
cull out those better feelings, and to remind its what it
is to belong to a strong, solid, generous, serious nation,
under a throne winch unites in as one vast funnily. We
are alas called upon to give thanks for the completion of it
most important stage in the education of one whose life
thus prolonged is fraught with incalculable Interest for us
all. Ile for whom we now return thanks has, we may hunnbly
trust, been receiving 91,111 the hands of an all wise and all
Tomei( el rather an edincallon such as might move a heart of
stone, such surely as is specially calculated to draw forth
whatever there is good, generous, and nolde within him.
NS hat school of experience, what lessons of lii elite or 11111111 M
teaching, could bin imagined more affecting, more ele-
vating, nnore stimulating to all that is good in the
human soul than that sick chamber where mother, and
wife, and brothers and sisters were widening in ingnntsing
suspense ; than the prayers, auril the hopes, and the serious
warnings which, dming those ouster. days, went up from
the churches and chapels, the hearths and the altars of the
whole people ; than the reflections which roust have been
awakened during those long weeks of ebbing and returning
strength, both comet-nig the past and the future I What
education more splendid could have been given for
the heir of these realms than this—to have leannt
by suffering not only what is meant by sickness and pain,
and weakness, and the shadow of death itself, but to have
learnt also what is expected of him by the mighty
nation over which in God's good time he may at last be
called to rule than to have known how deeply it has been
felt that his welfare is ours, and our welfare is his' than to
have had bone in upon him by thousands and tens of
thousands of voices, that of him to whom if much Is given
much shall be required T

TFIE BISHOP OP ST. DAVID'S ON LOYALTY.
The Bishop of St. David's, in his thanksgiving sermon on
Sunday. said that the recent expression of feeling in regard
to the illness of the Prince of Wales, was not mere sympathy
with affliction, or homage to personal worth, but a display
cf Christian loyalty, and the outcome of a whole national
history—a pledge of the deep-seated conviction In the public
mind of the intimate connection existing between the
Royal house and those highest national blessings ivhlL h
preserve us from fluctuations between anarchy and
despotism. All the ills of France were traceable, the
bishop said, to the loss of the Crown, that firm cement
of social order, and to the wicked destruction of the people's
loyalty. The lessons of French history, however, were lost
i upon some Englishmen ; hence It was a providential mercy

that the imminent danger of the heir to the throne had
elicited a national dedlaration of determination not to ex.
change the substantial blessings endeared by long and happy
experience for a delusive shadow, the creation of weak
brains. The Constitution should be regarded not as our
property, but as a precious deposit to he transmitted and
augmented in value according to our abilities as good
stewards.

THE HEALTH OF THE PRINCE OF VA IFS.
Owing to the unusually mild weather whiell pre-
vailed during the week, his Royal llighnes, the Prior-
-1 Wales has been able to take a short drive each after-
con in the vicinity of Sandringham House' accom-
panied by her Royal Ilighnesa the Princess of Wales.
By this out-of-door exercise the health of the Prince
has been sensibly improved, and his strength increased.
Already his Royal Highness is able to receive some of
the numerous congratulatory addresses which have been
sent to Sandringham, and to direct suitable replies to
them.