The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

No. 1, WI

[Stamped, id. Additional.]

OR. CANDLISH AND THE PYRAMIDAL MORTI.
MEN? TO THE LATE PRINCE CONSORT.

At the meeting on Friday of the Free Church As-
sembly at Edinburgh, the wail- oernOslviairde divine, the
Pam Dr. Candlish, in expreming his cooeurries in the pes-
madings of the committee on sold—" reed la the
tircEthe other days to the following flesh
a.airn pyraini shape, erected by eommemi
of hor pity the Queen, in memory of his late Bo*
Ingham" the Prince Consort, has just been completed. H.
°C • commanding position ou • hill mate'mate' dMenae
10:Ziol the castle, and may be distinctly nor from the
turnpike, pearly opposite Crathie. It is built of roagSly-
dressed stones, and measures 35 feet square at tholes*,
by 40 feat in height. On the north elope a tablet is bait,
having on it • suitable inscription, with a quotation
from the Wisdom of Solomon, chap. iv., v. 13 and 14. In
this motto, taken from the Apocrypha, from the Wisdom
of 80101110 E!, there is, as I hare said, the following sentence :
—' He, being made perfect in • short tiros, fsd a long
time. For his soul pleased the Lord ; therefore basted He
Stake him away from among the wicked.' Ido not mein
is discuss the theological soundness of that sentiment. It
is • sentiment not very cautiously expressed, but embody-
ing what is better expressed in the Holy Scripture. This
Is the striking fon, that here we have, in ecienerion with
the memory of the beloved and lamented Prince, and in
connexion with the grief of oar noble hearted Sovereign
we.have, I say, • Paoli inneigition—for it is • Popish in-
soriplien—ttpon the monument. (Hear.) Of course, I
need not say that not one shadow of cupid= of Maine
in this matter csa possibly into* Selma, Majesty or to any
of the royal family. It is not, perhaps, in a oniain sects,
proper to trans the origin. of Din sort of inscription. I
believe there is a similar uineription from the AVYPitli
upon a monument ia the royal grounds at indoor.
But here, in the face of bible.loving Scotland—in the face of
Scotland, that has maintained • serious and successful con-
troversy on behalf of the pure, unadulterated sod
against the Apocrypbs—in the face of biblsloving
this for sgee is to be read upon the monument of our bed
Prince. Now, sir, I just say, in one word, that this is
too had. (Hear, hew.) We know the quarter whence
it originated. There can be no difficulty whatever in
tracing it to that small band of clergymen of the church
' who, lam sorry to my, have • standing in the English
evert—a very influential standing at court—anii who, in ,
their writings, have indicated an extreme desire to put the
and the Bible upon a level, and that sot in the
strP442Paildicsiting what may be good and useful in the
Apocrypha, but for the express purpose of undermining
the authority of scripture—(applause)—and making out
that there can be no distinction drawn between canonical
and apocryphal books, and that the inspired words of
scripture axe not materially different from the books of
the Apocrypha. (Hear, hear.) Now, I need not inform
al ben who are at all acquainted with the theolo-
gical of the day, that that is the great desire
of the clergymen of the broad school in England. Many
of theca at least panda the Apocrypha, and parade it
studiously, as of equal authority with Holy Scripture. We
may be told that it is not said expressly that this verse is
put up as • verse of the Bible ; but can anyone doubt that
it is put up in the ordinary way in which quotations from
the Bible are given ? and rarely if these men had been ran-
sacking the Bible they could bare found equally beautiful
far more pregnant with the spirit of Christianity
and of immortality, than this misembly meagre
text from the Apocrypha. (Applause.) Why, there
is not one single reference in that
.passage to • Noised
immortality. All the reference is to relief from
among the wicked, nothing more whatever. Barely
these great divines, advising our beloved Queen to her
distress in the face of broad Scotland—bible.loviog Scotland
—how to perpetuate the memory of him she mourned,
might have found, in the writings of the apostle Paul, or,
if they doubted him, they might have found in the recorded
saying' of his blessed Master, something more to the par-
pose—more hopeful, more pathetic than this wretched scrap
of the Apocrypha. (Applause.) I repeat, it is too bad. 11
do not know whether any representation might not be made
on the "abject. (Hear, hear ) It is • thing which endures for
ages ; and I sayit is too bad that the Scottish nation, most
deeply,. most intensely sympathising with our beloved
Sovereign in her remains, full of admiration of that Muir
trious Prince who has been prematurely taken away—l my
it is too bad that Scotland, thus sympathising with the
Queen, and thus mourning him over whose loss she
mixing, shoald be for ages insulted by having is the flaming
fore hoot of that monument what Soot/ea cannot but re-
gard as an offence to the Bible which Seafood loves and to
the religion which Scotland has inherited." (Applause.)