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THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE…

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THE MARRIAGE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES THE rector, the Rev. J. Griffith, M.A., preached a sermon specially on this subject, last Sunday evening' at St. David's, an epitome of which we have much pleasure in publishing. He took for his text-" Blessed is the people that know the joyful sound; they shall walk, 0 Lord, in the light of thy countenance." He began by saying that it was not known who wrote that pnalm, though it was one of the most beautiful in the whole book. The writer of it went through, one by one, the blessings that awaited the people of God. He re- garded Judsea as a land really flowing with milk and honey." He saw her hills crowned with the cedars of Lebanon-her valleys laughing with the corn -her rocks clustering with the purple vine-her people multi- plied as the sand of the sea-and her hosts marshalled in battle array. He saw all this and admired it, but it was not for this he pronounced her "blessed." She was blessed only because she "knew the joyful sound because she enjoyed the presence and favour of God Without going any further, therefore, into the matter, they might see here at once what elevated one nation above another. It was the possession of a pure faith that alone made a nation happy-" blessed above all others. One glance at the nations of the past was suffi- eient to prove this. When they turned over in their minds the peculiarities of ancient nations, they learnt to associate with each some particular idea. For in- stance, whenever they thought of ancient Rome, they were struck with her barbaric splendour, her tremendous power, that did really, in the form of an eagle, clutch every nation of the world then known. So with regard to Greece —she rose before them decked in all the glory of art, literature, and poetry. Her magnificent temples crowned every crag and promontory; her groves were filled with the most exquisite statues. She appeared before them as lovely as she was elegant. Then if they turned to Babylon, there they saw pride rampant, am- bition rearing herself up; great Nebuchadnezzar walk ing in his hanging gardens, swelling himself, like a fool, equal unto God. Or, if they came down to modern times, it was impossible until lately to think of that great nation across the Atlantic without having the mind filled with the idea of progress. It was a nation of nations, startling us, like some huge, unclean bird, spreading out her wings and ready by fair means or by foul, to tear with beak and talon every living thing that came within her shadow. Not one of shese'nations oc- cupied the same place in the mind as Judsea. She alone of all the nations of antiquity, was a religious nation. For, though a modern and iu most respects a protestant Nation, yet no man could say that America was a reli- gious nation. From all they knew of her sayings her doings, it would be impossible to affirm that 8he was notea for any kind of worship whatever, unless t Were, indeed, that of the "almighty dollar." So that, aether they looked to the present or to the past, no 4 afaon could be said to be a happy nation except where the people knew the joyful sound." He, for one, of might be said to a very large extent their own nation. She was pre-eminent for the allJty °f her faith, and the influence it exercised over fiix.+ f doings. Nominally, at any rate, religion was the tlung thought of in England. It was now two ii ?Ufi.a^d years, or thereabouts, since the Romans called nam Great Britain—Magna Britannia; that her6 clung to her ever since, and he loved to regard mac^'fi ^reaV' not on account of her great armies, her anH U1 u11^ fl^ts, her great men, her great commerce, Q er boundless wealth, but because here the fear of r^?JW?,SireaUy regarded, and His worship free and un- Now he was led into that train of thinking ral f sure would all say it was very natu- irom the great event that had occurred in the action since he addressed them there last. An event, Of Which it might be truly said, that it had set the whole nation drunken with joy. An event which he Would challenge all history to produce anything like it from her first to her last page. He referred to the mar- riage of the Prince of Wales. All that had happened connected with it, was as creditable to the people as it waa to the great family, whose presumptive head had Jjst taKen unto himself a wife. They naturally asked, of T i was s9" was simply because the Prince had married a wife? Other Princes of Wales Wij n before and in times, too, when it was ill f uPon as something like blasphemy even to think aad roy*!ty' though royalty might have acted, as ill, httrn disgracefully as it is possible for monsters in thein f i?6 V1 and yet. history never told so nnx„ ti. rejoicings before. Why was it the ) ,en' Why, because this Prince of Wales had j1 8011 °* a Queen whose reign—long as it hrieht,JI a j might God still prolong it—was the very t Purest in all history. A Queen of whom plaint h We" said, though he would use hut the the despun Saxon words in saying it, that, from that for st kePt house, she had shown her people keep ks„ P*1"1 she feared God, and had determined to it was n,Bf°1mmaP('ments. And he verily believed that Places thaJ?L0W*D^ *° example, set them In high they \verp ^ey were as a nation the God-fearing people no Ion u exarnP'e—and it was mournful to record once the n^ in by that wedded friend who was r°Ws. ASHI er ant* the sharer of her joys and her sor- should he ii • Sreat j°y. or sorrow to her, which fo "Ifld he call it ? she stood alone-and not alone either, Wag a than she stood by her,—and yet her fate ty«a#ed! xr °ne. A widow so young, and otherwise so that h declared he had never read nnything in his of 8]j j. home so forcibly to his mind the vanity ^ddinV nan greatness as the description of that great real scalH; sa'Mened the heart, and it brought gOrgeoy tears to the eye. There they saw all the 'Ban n 8 °* human pageantry packed together, such 8ilk, the sn«er 8aw before. There was the velvet, the herald » ^he gold, the diamond, the saphirp, the ]a:'j e the ruby, and the beryl. These c°ttld brin °U* w't*1 ingenuity that human skill Krandces, ^o bear upon them. There, too, were the »eroes0 e nation, the dignitaries of the realm, Jo fattte V8* ^ays' Kaunt old warriors, statesmen known Pride n £ aii?e(* men> eloquent men, men who were i er# ton Pe0P'e and the ornament of the land. ecked out be seen England's fairest daughters, skill ln.a" the loveliness which beauty, grace, art, aU ^ve them. Oh it was a scene enough 0ttfan «, e brain to swim. While the loud pealing 8^ell blare of the silver trumpets, and the rolling what *1 ^rums> must have given a foretaste to many Sutler h t>le some day in heaven of the poorest ?eiQber ere» when he, too, shall wear a crown. Re- i^the^u tllat, Poor people• Well, crowning all iS'Rttificp,?* sFV °* a'l observers, the centre of this hannv /J'. Jure—might be seen the lovely bride and ii What n •* ?roonn> t',e Prince and his Princess, 'airviiira 't was to cast any gloom over a scene er con«iHo?. J. God's truth was above every \?^ence thnf i?- He plans out his scheme of Pro- Wag w servants might take a note of it. And «??,k'ine f hnrn ^e,rb coming out again, like some 8l^ere i8 n ™r°l ^ich ,the flesh is never free, that j^leton in the tlie ,anfl tliat has not a i°Ve,y whhont U,P .N?r is there a rose ever so from k its attendant thorn. Only four or five Jj^ed from tT 'ere t^e ^nfe antl bridegroom stood, sepa- J^y's cerLiT m form, as if takine no part in the of°^mi»ht 1x5 fen fi?ure wearing the y°Ung. t. widow's weeds. She is still comparatively sadH r ^aee is furrowed with care, and her With 8orrow" This is England's'Qneen, Bhone. nf monarch on whom the sun has ever yet 5?* tell can tell ?—or, rather, who can There stoo/i "I that filled that royal breast ? justice I' ^n&land's mighty Queen, the dispenser 111 that f°u»tain of honour, the head of all men unto wi.omS+wguant' and yet probably the only fhe thoUgjlt } hour was indeed a sad one.) For at God's alto^ei<lay and t^e ^our when she, too, stood Rood and gallant' young and blooming bride of a *ne part he would 1?an' 8' n.° more. She thought of he thought of th«» •;av<^ taken in that day's ceremony he thought of the youW have filled his heart; £ ther to see a son "T^hcation it would have been to a bought too, but ah > 80 fair, and so happy she Jv'ed, and there stood ^"S^totherwise. Heinter- ^Ueen, as helpless as hulnki e mother' a widowed MdU chemeof Providenc?»l%aSuP?werless in God s W), y of the poorest chuiO* 8 e had been only the Ch«rLWOnder> then> if when thpU°n^1.a'i- her subiects- hoS g,ave the blessing, that dignitary of the •—What wonder, if as the ™^h^.dePart WSf was seen kneelfnTwh bu^t- ed' her heart breakingt-ith vv5th tears" He declared a„S' and ber did i6Vmen m God's own book. readanyth n„h?hne7er- ThoreKgood thanth« ^-der of &Iad son and tiappy 1>n.11?0 iind t1ie widowed Queen the pther SiS 8Sh TTnVi motllur' thus brught'T,! lesson such as thP!mnC° ra,st' S!J'mcd to him to be a them of what hrittle^tilff1Af give again- lt told Jt showed theru + ('j,y a11 were really made of. that what is to be ?°, re3Pe^* of persons Ott*law, one order ™°lSt fbe '„that He had but 0Ww> one sch0me for aU; and that if the loved one is to go, go he must, whether he leaves behind him a Queen his widosv, or even a costermonger's daughter. Ah then once for all, did they see now the value of knowing the joyful sound ?" There was no other knowledge to be compared to it. For here was a mighty Queen wielding a sceptre the like of which the [ world never felt the power of before. Let them go and ask her what it was that she relied in most ? what was it that was nearest and dearest to her heart ? She would tell them that her royal diadem, her glorious sceptre, were only as the staff of Egypt compared with the knowledge that God had given unto her, and that all that the world could give her. And when did the world ever give one person ever so much before?-that all this was only as the dust in the balance compared with the joy of the presence of her beloved. Ah then, brethren, seek the joyful sound. There is nothing in all the world like it. A man may be great, noble, brave, learned, eloquent, so as to win all men unto him. Yet, without "the joyful sound," his labour is but vain. He seeks rest, and he finds none for the dazzle of the world, the praise of men, and the plaudits of thousands fall on the heart as lead. These come only when it is too late to appreciate them, when the feelings are blunted, and worn out in the travail after them. Not so the joyful sound." This invigorates as it grows familiar. It tells us what it is to walk in the light of His countenance." Above all, it gives us a foretaste of what that state is, from which His countenance is never absent. At the close of the sermon the worthy rector called upon the congregation to sing God save the Queen." A better prayer, he said, they never could utter and if we are to judge from the heartiness with which the large congregation joined in, there was not one there who did not think so too. Led by the fine organ of St. David's and the choir, the effect was very thrilling as well as grand, and in a church—novel.

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