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XMAS STOICK UONEXOELLED).'ý# i verything boughtj'iight, and will be sold at smallest living profit, Special lines for Sunday£School Teashers and Classes. It wiIl pay you, and satisfy you to give me a cali. Pm Tr îEBILCUOCKa B OWMANVILLE, JAN. 20, 1892. THE DEAD PRINCE. A 5EItmoN BY REv. R. D. FRASERL, M. A., IN ST. PAULS'1S CHUROn, BOWMAN- VILLE, SUNDAY, JAN. 17, 1892, ON THSE WIEATH OF THE ~DYTKE op CLAR- ENCE, ELDEST SON 0F THE PRINCE 0F WALES. JoB l4:2-"JJe comethforth like a flow- er and is eut dowl. " An image of exquisite beauty-the open- ing of a brilliant fiower in the de wy moru- ing, a flaine of scarlet in the meadow; and llhen the sweep of the mower's scytbe, and it is laid low, to be scorched and with- eredi by the noon-day sun ! The -words are touchiugly appropriate to, the uutimeiy cutting off of the youth- fui scion of the Royal Hîouse, who to-day lies dust and ashes in the slent chamber of death. Brilliaut indeed wss his posi- tion, his surroundirigs, bis prospects. It is understood that ho was a young man, nt in any way remarkable, of quiet tastes ngd not very robust healtb. But by birth. 11f e, until we have Issrned fo sec Godl in sverytbiug; f0 rernember tbat Meore He made man Hie bad created the earth for him as, a fit dwelling-place; tba' .ibe capacit>' f0 sujoy sud tbe thousand de- liglifful thinga- about us are alike from the loving God ; f0 recoguize~ the loviug Father, f00, lu ail that cornes to us of ap- parent evil, being assured that "ahl thinga work together for good to them that love God ; " in one word, f0 live b>' faîth in the God of wisdom sud of gentleness. Our helpiessuesa wiii then briug nof dismay but sweet content, as tbe heiplesucas of the cbild upborne itbe ioviug rnotber's arma. Death's scythe la directed by the command of this Heaveul>' Father. 3. An outstaudiug feafure of tbe death of the Royal Duke is the intense pathos of if. An accepted lover suddsuly laid low in death: a maiden bride, ber lover snatcbed away, inconisolable. A mother bastening fromi ber tender ministries at the bedaide of the younger sou, worn with anxiet>', t stand heipleas at the bedside of bis eider brother as the sands of if e flow out. A father mouruing bis firsf. oorn sou. The sged Queen bowed down with grief at the removal of one trained careful>' for the throne, to wbicb, lu the naturai course of events, ho was to corne. A nation brougbf suddenly to a stand in the preparation of the weddiug gifts. The oorna lu which the bridai robes were being woven sfopped. Jewels for a bride to bce xchanged for wreatbs for the dead. Wbat romance more strange h or more sadh A tragedy in reai life ! How close- 1>' it touches us al 1 There is a ring of genuinenesa lu the messages aud resolu- tions aud addresses whicb are already pouriug in upon tbe bereaved royal bouse- hold. We ueedu't fear that our sympathy wili be wasted. We get glimpses occassionally behiud the glîffer aud glare iu wbicb the public life of sovereigus is led, sund dis- coi-or that i bey bave more sud not les ueed of the sympathy of their fellow- men, than those whose position la les loi ty, sud therefore les s oe. Five or six years ago the Quesu, writing to the sou of one of ber chaplains lu Scot- land, who bad couveyed to ber the news of bis father's death, (Prin. Tulloch) said, -1 arn stuuued by this, dreadfni uews.... I have agalu bast a dear and bouored frieuct, sud ny beart sluka within me wheu 1 tbiuk J shah not again on sarfh look ou thaf noble presence, that kiudly face, sud listen to those words of wisdorn sud large-bearteducas wbich used to do me so much good. But 1 should flot speak of myséif wben youi, bis chiidren, aud yuur dear mother aud our beloved Scotlaud lose s0 much. Still 1 ma>' be, 1 hope, forgiven if I do appear egotisticai, for 1 bave bast so many sud wben 1 feel so aloue ....... No more! Neyer again! these dreadful words I s olten bave had people are of ten separated, 1I bel that I couid neyer get accustomed to it .... Wit bout hlm everyfhing bosesaita lut ereat. It wili always cause a terrible pang for mue to bo separated from hlm, even for two days, sud I pra>' God not to let me survive him." Ten years later, lu the closiug dsys of 1871, the illuess of the Prince of Wales, who was broughf to tbe very gates of deafh, sud restored almoat as by a miracle. Then the death of, ber daugbhter, Alice sud lber youugest soui, sudlber noble sou- in iaw, the good Emperor Frederick, sud uow this new loss. Tfrials, tbeae, f0 cush even a less tender spirit. But, b>' the grace of God, she bas been supporfed tbrough them ail. And the Qucen a sor- rows bave perbaps doue as rnuch f0 biud the bearts of bier peopîe to the tbroue as the great vietories of bier reigu b>' land or by ses. Loyaity tbrives ou syrnpatby. Strangel>' perverse are tboee representa- f ives of the minera, umeeting at Stoke-on- Trent, who sulleniy declined to adopt a vote of sympathy with the royal farniiy, although rerninded by sorne of their lead- ers thaf in cases of accidents lu tlhe mines the Queen always beiped the distressed. Even the Irish jouruais witb aIl their grudge af Euglsud, are mnoved to ardent expressions of syrnpatby. The nation at large is pouring this f orth in no Etiufed measure su ad the nation sud the throne will be drswu the dloser together thereby. We caunoÉ look far iuto the future. But we eau ses far suough f0 discover thaf there are troublons tirnea lu store for monarchies sud for mouarcha ; sud for thaf matter, for ail fora of authorif>'. Lawiessuess is, iu both the old world and the new, orgauiziug for a struggle. If monarchies are f0 stand, if is to be by the firma weidiug of ail that is beat in the na- tion to the crown sud of the crown f0 the people. The strongeat cernent is mutuai knowledge sud affection. The divinit>' thaf dot h hedge a king bas been diss ipat- ed before a rigbteous seise of the equaiity of men. Kînga must be one xith the people, or the sceptre wilh pasa from thelr grssp. Britain bas growu greaf under the geutie sway of rnarchy. If ray nof be the ideal form of goverument consider- ed lu the abstract, but, lu practice, if bas answered us well. If there la to ho a change, if ivili be wben those ou the tbrone, or on the stops of the throne, briug if about by their pride or their weakuess or their unworthiness - Lot us pray that such a calamity rnay ho averfed. May' the God of the nations spare to us for long yearasf111l our gracious Quoen, sud give bier snccessors, wbo shall reigu wifh ike virtue sud righteousnews; sud ma>' this preseut sorroîv build the thlrons sud the nat eion lu dloser sympafby sud affection. "God save the Quee." I I cers thereof up to April 29th for $1 eacb, alter which date tickets cau nli> be pur- ohasied fromn the Treasurar at $2 each- On motion the meeting adjourned until March l2th at 3 o'clock. JÀA)Is PAR, Secretar>'. STILL ANOTHER BUSINESS CHANGE. S. H. REYNOLDS flaving sold out lis retail butcher busin. ess to Hume & Wright wishes to state to the publie that he can recomrnend those young nmen f0 bis customers aud to the public. The>' have been at the business long enough to l'e quabified t, buy the right klnd of meat and seii it ac the right price. For their benefit he solicits a con- tinueuce of the patronage cf bis oid cue- toiners and the public generali>'. His wish is to bis successors that ma>' pros- pE r as he bas doue. S. H. Reynolds aleo thanks bis man>' cubtorners for tbeir suppoit in the pabt and la sorry f0 part with them but wilI often sec thern as he is net going out of town. Many people aak wby ho sod out wbils be la doing so well. The reason is simpi>' that because those young mseo came f0 hjrn on J-an. 5fh and asked if he would ssii out. fHe soswered yes, ha wouid ssii his business as auything else if he got wbsf it was worth. Tbey took Min up snd bougbf al he offered to Feil and they take possession of same stand on Jan. 18th, 1892. Stormin the Heights. The storrning of the Heigbts of Quebe iî a part of the annals of war, and an ancient print, in florid coJoxs, depicts bow a great' Ge neral departed ibis life on Ibat memorable field of gior>'. I is a war picture of minor tons, witb plenty of gore to ernbellisb it. The srnoke of battis lies beaviij over the esue, and around about bledvn ero, sors b is brave 501%- bieeding, strougly ixliuf,.atP the bavoc of strife sud its attendant bý fl',rinLy. The picture la remnarkabie not s0 uts h as for what. it represents as what la omits. 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