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 J^N Address 
 
 SUGGESTED BY THE DEATH 
 
 OP 
 
 H.R.H, The DUKE OF RIBMY 
 
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 JIey. i^ohn jJenkins, p.p., pj:^.p. 
 
 ^ubstitttttb for tfee .lltoming .Sermon i« .$t. ^nhxtiy^'u Clnucb, 
 
 OTTAWA, 
 
 On SUNDAY, 30th MARCH, 1884. 
 
 FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION, 
 
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This Address is issued at the request of the Kirk 
 Session of St. Andrew's Church, Ottawa. 
 
 Montreal, SI st, March, 1884. 
 
" Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them 
 that fear Him. 
 
 "For He knoweth our frame: He remembereth that we are 
 dust. 
 
 "As for man, his days are as grass, as a flower of the field so he 
 perisheth. 
 
 " For the wind passeth over it and it is gone : and the place 
 thereof shall know it no more. 
 
 " But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting.'* 
 
 —Psalm cm. 
 
ADDRESS. 
 
 From farthest oast to fai-thest west of the 
 Empire, a whole people mourn to-day the loss of 
 a noble and promising Prince. Suddenly loosed 
 from :he earthly ties that bound him to loving 
 hearts, the Duke of Albany lies low in death. 
 As I speak, the lifeless clay which so lately in- 
 closed a mind rarely endowed and richly furnish- 
 •ed, is being ti-ansported from a foreign shore to 
 that British home in which await its coming, 
 the shattered hopes and hearts of two Koyal 
 widows. One, long accustomed to grief, borne 
 with how unwonted a patience and submission, 
 dimng the yetn-a that have passed since Death 
 dealt his tirst sad blow on the Eoyal household, 
 and took from its members, and fi-om us, the 
 Father of our Princes, the Husband of our Queen, 
 —Albert the Great and the Good ! The other, a 
 young and gentle Princess who, as it were but 
 yesterday, transferred her affections and interests 
 from her German home to English soil, to become 
 the wife of him whom, too soon alas, and with- 
 
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 out warning, 8he ha^ lost! Not only does she 
 mourn a husband, she mourns also the father 
 of her orphan child. It was but the other 
 evening, that a friend and parishioner of mine 
 happened, in the coui'so of conversation, to men- 
 tion the fact of his having lately spent a few 
 days at Claremont with the young Prince and 
 Princess : Warmly and admiringly did he speak 
 of the beautiful simplicity of that Eoyal home, 
 of the tender affection which existed between 
 its inmates, and of the tru(^ happiness which 
 seemed to fill the cup of each. By so much, is 
 this sad event the more distressingly touching. 
 Fitted by nature to be all that a husband and 
 father should be, the Prince, thus early, gave 
 promise of living the life, in these respects, 
 which his noble father had lived before him ; for 
 that he possessed many of the qualities which 
 raised the Prince Consort to an almost matchless 
 elevation amongst even the best and greatest of 
 his kind. If this estimate of our departed Prince 
 is a correct one, as I believe it to be, no woi^ds 
 of mine could convey the greatness of the loss 
 which has been sustained by those who»were 
 nearest to him, nor could our thought even con- 
 ceive it. 
 
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 The heart of our beloved Queen this blow 
 must strike with new and accumulated force. 
 ^ few years ago only, we were mourning with 
 the Royal Mo.ther the loss (shall I say it ?) of 
 her favourite daughter ; the companion of her 
 earliest grief; the watchful, tender nui-se, in 
 girlhood life, of her dying father; her whose 
 maternal faithfulness and love to her childi-en 
 fear could not shake, nor death destroy. And 
 now the wound, never fully closed, is again 
 opeii.d, the heart pierced with a new and, as 
 we fear, a now inextinguishable grief. If to 
 follow in the steps of a sympathizing Christ is 
 religion, then surely religion teaches and con- 
 strains us to weep, as did He in not unlike cir- 
 cumstances, with those who this day weep over 
 the death of a gifted and true-hearted son, of an 
 exemplary and faithful husband. Yes, we do, 
 and will mingle our tears with theirs in this 
 their great sorrow; and as we have ah'eady 
 done in our morning prayers, we will contiuae 
 to commend them to the God of all comfort, 
 and to the sympathy of that Great High Priest 
 who is touched with the feeling of His people's 
 griefs, and "ever liveth to make intercession" 
 -for them. 
 
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 ' The loss of such a Prince to the nation is 
 •scarcely to be less deplored by its people, for 
 the reason i\\id he gave rich promise of a capa- 
 city to accomplish great things. Already, he 
 was wise, thoughtful and considerate, beyond 
 his years. Of this he gave full proof in the 
 utterances which fell from his youthful lips, on 
 questions of national concern — educational, sani- 
 tary, social. At one time it was reported and 
 believed that he was about to consecrate his life 
 to pulpit and parish wor. . Whether this be so 
 or not, it has been evident to all who have 
 watched his career that, during the brief period 
 X)f his manhood life, he took a deep interest in 
 ■all that relates to the moral, intellectual, and 
 social life of the people in the midst of whom 
 his lot was cast, no less as f fellow-subject than 
 as a Eoj^al Prince. That we should have been 
 deprived of such a man before his prime ; that 
 we should have been deprived of his counsel in 
 the highest branch of the Imperial Legislatui'e, 
 and of his commanding influence in the circles 
 of literature, of science, and of art; that one of 
 those strong links which connect the every-day 
 thought, aim and pursuit of the people with the 
 highest places in the nation — with the Throne it- 
 
 
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^elf— should have been so mysteriously snapped 
 asunder; that the promise which he gave of 
 great achievements should have been suddenly 
 and ruthlessly withdrawn from those hopes in 
 which we have been indulging as to his connec- 
 tion with the near future of the nation's life, will 
 be sorely felt by the whole British people ; will, 
 indeed, be deeply and sorrowfully regretted in 
 every portion of the Empire, and by ail the 
 subjects of our gracious and now afflicted Queen. 
 A real sympathy on the part of her people 
 with the Queen and Eoyal Family at such a 
 time, has been made possible by the insight 
 which we have gained into its home life from 
 Her Majesty's own pen. We have been allowed 
 to trace and to admire the daily life of the Eoyal 
 -Circle. We have seen its members in their 
 relations to each other, in their occupations, in 
 their recreations, in their recognition and prac- 
 tice of the good and true, in their former sor- 
 rows^ in their Christian submission, and have 
 been constrained to acknowledge that prudence, 
 wisdom, womanliness and Christian feeling have 
 been ever present forces in tlie government of 
 the household. We seem, as we read the 
 Queen's touching descriptions of Her private 
 
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 life and that of Her children, as though we were 
 mingling with them; sharing their aims and 
 aspirations, their joys and hopes, their griefs 
 and soiTows. It is the cue of some would-be 
 intellectual and critical people to disparage the 
 Queen's late Book. It lacks this or that, in 
 their esteem ! I confess, frankly, that I admire 
 it for its true nature, for its genuine simplicity, 
 and for the conviction which it creates, that its 
 author is first a Woman and thei. a Queen , that 
 she is not only the ruler of a great empire, but 
 the sympathizing friend of her people ; that 
 she has a heart to feel with her sorrowing 
 neighbours, and to lielp them in and out of their 
 troubles. It is this knowledge, so widely spread, 
 of the inner life of the Eoyal Family, which 
 commands for them a kindly Christian sym- 
 pathy scarcely less than universal. 
 
 We in Canada are deeply touched by this 
 unexpected bereavement. We have had the 
 late Prince among ourselves. He was known, 
 and well known, as a visitor and guest in some 
 of the households and homes of our country ; 
 and, through the members of these and the 
 appreciation which they have expi'essed of his 
 simple and gentle character, we have seemed 
 
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 to know him ourselves. Then, others of the 
 Queen's children have lived amongst us, and 
 have associated with us ; two of them for long 
 periods of time. We learned to honoiu* them 
 for the Queen's sake, and to admire them for 
 their personal character and gifts. They have 
 left their mark upon Canadian life. They freely 
 surrendered old-world prejudices, associations, 
 .distinctions, habits, that they might become, 
 each of them one of ourselves. They entered 
 our homes ; we sat with them at table ; we wor- 
 shipped with them in the House of God. They 
 identified themselves with the interests of the 
 people — their social interests, their literary in- 
 terests ; they strived to promote the cultivation 
 of taste and art among us. In these and a 
 hundred other ways, they commanded, and still 
 command, our respect — in some cases, if I may 
 so say, our love. It is natural that we in 
 Canada, who have been brought thus near to 
 members of the Eoyal Home of England, should 
 be deeply touched by the grief which has entered 
 it, and that we should regard the loss which has 
 called it forth, in a very true sense, our own. 
 
 Many lessons are suggested by the sad event 
 to which I have called your attention. Ty^o or 
 
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 three of these lessons I will now try to explain 
 and enforce : 
 
 1. Here is a lesson to the young men whom 
 I see before me : to all young men, indeed. 
 
 Here was a man of only thirty, who had 
 acquired, thus early, a reputation for knowledge, 
 for discernment, for wide literary taste, for a 
 more than ordinary acquaintance with the social 
 questions of the day; who could talk intelli- 
 gently on these things, with the first men of the 
 land; and who could discuss them in public, with 
 an ease, a knowledge, and an intelligence which 
 only few men acquire who have lived twice as 
 long. Some of the public addresses of the re- 
 gretted Prince, were models of intelligent dis- 
 cussion and not less of taste. N^ow, I ask any 
 young man to consider how much all this meant 
 as to faithful reading, and studious preparation ; 
 as, in a word, to hai^ and toilsome work. For 
 even to Princes, there is no royal road to learn- 
 ing. There is but the road of self-denying, 
 continuous, struggling effort, to them as to 
 us. Granted, the Prince had great advantages. 
 His position was favourable to the cultivation 
 of his powders. How many men moving in 
 the ^ame favoured poRition, make shipwreck of 
 
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 their privileges, and die ''ae a fool dieth!" 
 This young man, in spite of temptations to other 
 pursuits, to those questionable pursuits to which 
 wealth and station often lead, addressed himself 
 with purpose and success to the cultivation of 
 I his mind and heart ; and bid fair to become, as 
 
 his father had been, one of the few men in the 
 nation who reach a foremost place in practical 
 intelligence, and in learned culture. What I 
 would now say to young men is this, work to 
 become intelligent and work hard ! read and 
 meditate and strive ! You have not princely 
 advantages, any of you ; but your advantages 
 are signal, and are sufl&cient to make you, if you 
 will but use them, men of intelligence and 
 cultivation. If instead of frittering away your 
 time in frivolous amusements, as so many young- 
 men do, giving more attention to trivial pursuits 
 and things, than to the paramount matters of in- 
 tellectual and literary training, and of moral 
 cultui'e and growth ; if I say, instead of pursuing 
 such follies, you will manfully embrace the 
 opportunities for becoming wise and intelligent 
 and good, that are within your reach ^ you will 
 succeed in serving your generation by the will 
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 occur in earlier or in later life, will leave 
 your mark not only within the circle of home 
 and friends, but even upon the wider sphere of 
 society and the Church. It is a miserable and 
 distressing thought, in anticipating the future of 
 our Dominion, that so many young men among 
 us remain contentedly ignorant, living really use- 
 less lives ; so many, incapable of expressing 
 themselves intelligently on the simplest things, 
 incapable of carrying on any conversation, but 
 what is frivolous and insipid. 
 
 2. Another lesson which this event suggests, 
 relates to the uncertainty of all earthly things. 
 *' Man Cometh forth like a flower, and is cut 
 down ; he fleeth also as a shadow and continueth 
 not." 1^0 family, as we have all and often 
 experienced, no, nor any^individual, young or 
 old, is secure from the visitations of Death. 
 Wealth, beauty, intellect, culture, station, power, 
 are all open to assault from the common enemy, 
 and are, in the long run, elfectually assailed. 
 Death is the lot of all. *' It is appointed unto 
 men once to die, and after this " ! What? Any- 
 thing! Nothing! — Annihilation, or conscious 
 being ? *' And after this the judgment ^'^ with its 
 rewards and punishments, with its heaven and its 
 
 
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 hell, its blessing and its curse, its " well done '* 
 And its *' depart from Me " ! The life of useful- 
 ness rewarded ; the life of sloth and negligence 
 punished ! The smallest kindness repaid ; the 
 smallest neglect of loving help noted and visited ! 
 ^' When saw we Thee an hungered and fed Thee, 
 or thirsty, and gave Thee drink ? When saw we 
 Thee a stranger, and took Thee in, or naked and 
 clothed Thee ! When saw we Thee sick or in 
 prison and came unto Thee "? Inasmuch as ye 
 did it unto one of these, my brethren, ye did it 
 unto Me ! For as much as ye did it not, ye did 
 it not to Me ! Learn, while it is called to-day, 
 to live kindly, loving, helpful lives. Learn, in 
 other words, to live Christ's life. Eemember how 
 He bore Himself towards others ; how He felt 
 for and relieved others' wants ; how He denied 
 Himself, that others might be helped ; how, 
 at length, He died, that we might live! And 
 He hath left us who name His name, an exam- 
 ple. Let us follow it. Let us walk in His steps. 
 A life of earnest Christian work, undertaken 
 with a true aim and in the spirit of the Master, 
 is the true, the only preparation for a worthy 
 and hopeful death . " Blessed are the dead which 
 die in the Lord : Yea, saith the Spirit, that they 
 
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 may rest from their labours, and their works do 
 follow them." This is the readiness which the 
 Lord, the righteous Judge, I'equires from all 
 His followers. His word, as it comes to us in 
 the startling event which has called forth these 
 friendly counsels, is : '' Be ye therefore ready 
 also; for in such an hour as ye think not the 
 Son of Man Cometh." 
 
 3. Loyalty is one of the Christian virtues. A 
 lesson is taught us to-day of loyal affection to 
 our sorrowing Queen. It has been said that 
 grief, more closely than even joy, l)inds heart to 
 heart. The known gi'ief of the bereaved across 
 the sea should quicken our loyalty and devotion 
 to the noblest and best sovereign that, in our 
 own land or in any other, ever swayed a sceptre 
 or sat upon a throne. 
 
 Be ours that Christian loyalty that finds ex- 
 pression in earnest prayer to the Father of all, 
 that sustaining strength, hope and comfort may 
 be vouchsafed to Her Majesty in this day of 
 trouble ; a loyalty that finds expj*ession, too, in 
 words of respect and reverence for her authority, 
 and in deeds of service, so far as we have it in 
 our power to render them, to tlie Throne and 
 Constitution. 
 
 God bless and save the Queen in her pre- 
 sent grief! God bless, sustain and protect the 
 widowed Princess, in this her first great grief, 
 and her orphan child, too young, alas ! to know 
 either her loss or ours. Amen.