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 SUCCESTEO BY THE DEATH OF . 
 
 Suhstitutedfor the mual Sermon at the 
 
 Morning Service, in St. FauVs 
 
 Church, Montreal, 
 
 ON 
 
 ^UNDAY, IJTH PecEMBER, 1878 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. JOHN JENKINS, D.D. 
 
 (.For Private arculation.) 
 
An Addi\ess: 
 
 SUGGESTED BY THE DEATH OF 
 
 %,'§,.%. the :]^nnces0 ^lice, 
 
 Substituted for the usual Sermon at the 
 
 Morning Service, in St. FauCs 
 
 Church, Montreal, 
 
 ON 
 
 JSUNDAY, I3TH pECEMBER, iSjS- 
 
 BY 
 
 THE REV. JOHN JENKINS, D.D. 
 
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 The issue of this Address in its 
 present form, is due to the earnest wish 
 of many who heard it spoken from the 
 Pulpit ; and maij he accepted as an 
 evidence of the sympathj luhich is felt 
 hy the Congregation generally, for the 
 Queen and the Boyal Family, in this 
 time of her cavern ent and^ distress. 
 
 §t IPaui's OThurclt, 
 Montreal, 19th Deccmher, 1878. 
 
" Man that is born of a woman is of few daj's, 
 and full of trouble. He cometh forth like a 
 flower, and is cut down ; he fleeth also as a 
 shadow, and continueth not."— Job xiv, 1, 2. 
 
Address. 
 
 ^ have come to you this morning 
 with the sermon that I had de- 
 signed to preach, would be out of har- 
 mony with the thoughts and feelings 
 of the congregation, as, I may assure 
 you, it would be with my own. 
 
 A few days ago, Montreal, decked 
 out in holiday attire, her citizens full 
 of joyous pleasure, welcomed the 
 presence within its w^alls of a daughter 
 of the Queen, the consort of Her 
 Majesty's Canadian Viceroy. A chief 
 ground of rejoicing on that occasion 
 was that in the person of the Princess 
 Louise and that of her noble husband, 
 Canada should have been brought 
 into close personal contact and rela- 
 tionship with the Eoyal family of 
 
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 England. Who, in the midst of the 
 enthusiasm that marked the Vice- 
 Eegal reception from Halifax, step by 
 step, to Ottawa, could have antici. 
 pated that they who had been the 
 worthy recipients of so much honour 
 and applause, would be called thus 
 early to share with their Eoyal 
 Mother, the grievous sorrow which 
 afflicts Her to-day ? 
 
 I am just old enough to remember 
 the consternation and distress with 
 which the sudden and unexpected 
 
 death of the Princess Charlotte of 
 
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 England was received by the whole 
 British nation. She was heiress- 
 apparent to the Throne ; a young and 
 gentle Princess, who gave promise of 
 avoiding those defects of character 
 which, in the beginning of the cen- 
 tury, had given to both her father 
 and her mother an unenviable noto- 
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—so admired and so beloved that the 
 whole nation went into mourning; 
 yea, the people mourned in heart as 
 well as in form, for that, the brightest 
 hope of England, in their then estima- 
 tion, had been extinguished in a mo- 
 ment, and that the nation's most 
 brilliant star had set. That is now 
 nearly sixty years ago. The sad 
 event of yesterday will scarcely less 
 deeply touch the heart of the people, 
 than did the death of tlie Princess 
 Charlotte. True, the nation at that 
 time lost the heiress-apparent to the 
 Crown ; but this is it, to-day,— that a 
 noble, worthy, virtuous and good wo- 
 man has been taken from among our 
 British princesses ; and, chiefest of 
 all, that another and terrible blow 
 has visited our noble, venerated and 
 much-loved Queen— -that the heart of 
 the Eoyal Widow has been anew 
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 the Eojal Mother bewails her first 
 L'laternal loss. It is impossible for us 
 to realize to the full, the force of this 
 great sorrow to Her who yesterday- 
 met with Her children at Windsor, 
 to commemorate, by Christian observ- 
 ances, the death of the Prince-Con- 
 sort, the great and good Albert, the 
 true husband of our Queen, the true 
 and faithful father of Her children ; 
 who seventeen years ago yesterday, 
 by the day of the week as well as of 
 the month, fell an early victim to a 
 disease kindred to that which has now 
 sent his daughter to her grave. Ours 
 to-day, is the sad duty and the Chris- 
 tian privilege of weeping with Her 
 who weeps, and of crying unto God, 
 on the Queen's behalf, that His power 
 and love may bring strength and con- 
 solation to Her stricken soul. 
 
 It is no ordinary loss which the 
 Queen has sustained, for it is no or- 
 
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dinary daughter who has died. It 
 was the Princess Alice who was one 
 of the chief attendants, and certainly 
 the most self-denying and faithful, at 
 her father's deathbed, and who was 
 her Mother's close companion during 
 the early period of her widowhood" 
 It was she, too, who watched and 
 waited upon the Prince of Wales in 
 his almost fatal illness, some yeara 
 ago, and who persisted in administer- 
 ing nourishment, when every other 
 attendant had almost given up hope. 
 These facts could not be wholly con- 
 cealed from the people of England, 
 and they tended at the time to bind 
 the Princess to their hearts more 
 closely, probably, than any other of 
 the Royal children. She is gone ! the 
 wife, the mother, the daughter, the 
 sister-beloved, admired, honoured 
 almost adored— now, alas ! regretted 
 and mourned. She is gone ! accom- 
 
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 plished, charitable, kind, gentle, ex- 
 alted more by her virtues than by her 
 birth and station, gone in the prime 
 of her days, gone when, as we shonld 
 sav, the influence of her wise counsel 
 and loving Christian example were 
 most needed. 
 
 1 have come to you tliis morning 
 in much weakness from my sick- bed, 
 to speak to you of this sad event, and 
 to endeavour, in few words, they must 
 of necessity be feeble, to impress your 
 minds with some of those lessons 
 whicli it so naturally suggests. 
 
 It would be trite to say to you that 
 youth, beauty, station, accomplish- 
 ments, are no protection against 
 death — that his arrows fly in all direc- 
 tions, that rich and poor, young and 
 old, the strong and the weak, are 
 alike liable to fall a prey to his dead- 
 ly shafts. Yes ! it is trite to say all 
 this ; but it is true nevertheless, and 
 
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 may not be too often or too strongly 
 pressed on the attention of mankind. 
 If we believe that a change of heart 
 and of character is necessary to every 
 man before his spirit returns to God; 
 if it is true, as Christ puts it, that 
 " except a man be born again he can- 
 not see the Kingdom of God ; " if it 
 is true, as the Apostle declares, that 
 '' we must all stand before the judg- 
 ment seat of Christ ; that every one 
 may receive the things done in his 
 body, according to that he hath done, 
 whether it be good or bad ; " surely 
 the fact that all this is known and re- 
 peated, repeated and known, con- 
 stantly, universally,-should not deter 
 a minister, in the face of such an 
 event as we are now called on to con- 
 template, from once more reminding 
 his people that they too mnst die, 
 that they may shortly die, that no 
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 health, whether of birth or position, 
 suffice to assure man of life ; that 
 a palace is as assailable as a hut ; and 
 that the wisest thin<^' for us all to do 
 is, to *' apply our hearts unto wis- 
 dom " — religion, the liighest wisdom. 
 To me it seems that the words of 
 Christ come to our hearts to-day with 
 overwhelming significance and power, 
 *' Be ye therefore ready also, for in 
 such an hour as ye think not the Son 
 of Man Cometh." 
 
 But I am more anxious to press 
 upon your attention, and especially 
 upon that of the young who are here, 
 some other lessons which this sad 
 event suggests. 
 
 The first lesson which I note, re- 
 lates to the possibility of acquiring 
 in early life comparative maturity 
 of Christian character. At the age of 
 eighteen, the Princess whom we 
 mourn to-day, had acquired such ripe- 
 
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 ness of character as to have been not 
 only and merely the daughter, but 
 the companion and friend of one of 
 the most accomplished Christian men 
 that ever adorned British society. I 
 speak of her noble, revered father. 
 He had well and wisely trained her, 
 as he had the other elder members of 
 the family, in Christian knowledge 
 and Christian duty. Conspicuously 
 had she profited by his instructions, 
 and scarcely less by his eminent ex- 
 ample. 
 
 I want you to remember that 
 growth in Christian character is not 
 measurable by months and years. 
 We have known Christians of fifty 
 and sixty years, mere babes in knowl- 
 edge and in grace. We have seen 
 young people outstrip in piety and 
 usefulness the oldest communicants. 
 I am addressing this morning many 
 young women of eighteen years of 
 
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 age and upwards. How many of you, 
 my young friends, have thought even 
 of becoming Christians ? much less of 
 cultivating at your age, a high Chris- 
 tian character? You have thought 
 it beyond you that you should ever 
 become, or at least that in your young 
 days you should become, wise and 
 cultivated, pious and useful. It is 
 too true, I fear, that young people of 
 eighteen, of either sex, imagine that 
 their normal condition and aim in 
 life are dress, pleasure, society, with 
 a touch of giddiness and frivolity. 
 At least they seldom set themselves 
 to consider how much holier and 
 wiser they can become; how much 
 they can do to help men and women 
 to be better; how much they can. 
 achieve towards relieving the dis- 
 tresses of their fellows Their time 
 for such work, they think, has not 
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 their privileges, and die "as 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 puipose and success to the cultivation of 
 j 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 sufficient 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 man}' 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 
 culture 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, 3^ou will 
 succeed in serving your generation by the will 
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 books. We do not take them to the 
 houses of the poor that they may see 
 distress and learn how to relieve it ; 
 perhaps we never go ourselves ! Few 
 fatliers have ever shown greater wis- 
 dom in bringing up their children, 
 than did the lamented Prince-Consort; 
 and few children have ever profited 
 by the instructions of a good and wise 
 father as did tlie Princess Alice. So 
 it came to pass that when, seventeen 
 years ago, that dark shadow fell upon 
 the Eoyal House, this young girl 
 became, as she was fitted to become, 
 the friend and almost counsellor of 
 her widowed Mother. Think what 
 that meant : The companion of such 
 a Mother ! A companion with whom 
 that Noble Mother delighted to take 
 counsel ; a friend who was capable 
 of assuaging Her grief,and of directing 
 Her thoughts to the highest sources of 
 comfort. I remember that at the 
 
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 time the name of " the Princess 
 Alice " was a househohl word in 
 British homes, North and South. Now 
 this is what I wish to say to my young 
 friends \y\\o are here to-day, and 
 especially to the young women who 
 are listening to me : See by what a 
 young Princess of eighteen accom- 
 plished and became, how much you 
 might acquire and do towards the 
 formation of a noble Christian charac- 
 ter, and the living of a good and 
 useful life. And surely you have had 
 enough to remind you lately, even 
 within the bounds of our own con- 
 gregation, and more, within the circle 
 of our city-life, that if you ever 
 intend to be and to do anything, you 
 must begin at once. See how the 
 other day, fell disease struck down 
 in death, in one Christian home, two 
 daughters of a worthy and respected 
 clergyman. I remember a similar 
 
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 case occuiTing in my last Parish. At 
 one service I buried out of the sight 
 of sorrowing parents and a weeping 
 crowd, two bright and lovely daugh- 
 ters of a clergyman, the younger 
 twenty, the elder twenty-three. They 
 laid them side by side in their coffins 
 and buried in the same grave ! '^ Man 
 cometh forth like a flower, and is 
 cut down ; he fleeth also as a shadow, 
 and continueth not." If any of you 
 young people have widowed mothers, 
 emulate the example of this noble 
 young Princess. So far from occasion- 
 ing them anxiety, be you ministers 
 of comfort and hope to their shattered 
 souls. If any of you young men are 
 the sons of wddows, be you your 
 widowed mother's friend, her stay, 
 her support, if she needs your sup- 
 port, her protector in all times of 
 weakness, of sorrow^ of assault. Let 
 no young man be so unw^orthy of his 
 
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 nature, be so unmanly in other words^ 
 as to be the means of adding one 
 pang to his mother's well-nigh broken 
 heart. 
 
 ""' Then there is a second lesson which 
 is suggested by the early life of the 
 now-deceased Princess: the possibility 
 of cultivating and of practising even 
 in girlhood's days, Christian self- 
 denial. I have referred to the devo- 
 tion with which she nursed her father 
 and her brother. It was not that she 
 now and then approached the sick 
 bed, and put a kind question, and 
 smoothed a pillow, or handed a hand- 
 kerchief What this young Princess 
 did was hard nursing, hour by hour ; 
 watching, tending, devising; full of 
 thought — intense thought — full of 
 no less intense desire. She adopted 
 the rdle of an accomplished, hard- 
 working sick-nurse, and she played 
 it to the full. I shall not, for I need 
 
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 not, dwell upon this part of her 
 character. I mention it that my 
 young friends may think about it. 
 I mention it that they may see and 
 understand the attractiveness of self- 
 denial, of sacrifice, of devotion in a 
 young Christian girl. How many 
 w^ays there are in which a young 
 woman may work out a noble destiny ; 
 — in the home circle, amongst sick 
 friends and companions, amongst sor- 
 rowing neiglibours, amongst the sick 
 poor ! How much nobler a life than 
 a life of pleasure, of frivolity, of 
 fashion ! But I have said enough in 
 this direction. The event itself, and 
 the noble character of the Princess, 
 speak to you far more forcibly, and 
 with greater eloquence than any 
 ^^ords of mine could do. 
 
 Seventeen years ago, many hearts 
 were bowled in grief for the sorrows 
 of the Queen in Her irreparable, over- 
 

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 whelming loss. To-day many hearts 
 are well-nigh broken, by this new 
 grief, which has pierced and prostrated 
 Her spirit. Young people and old, rich 
 and poor, known and unknown, in all 
 parts of the Empire, in Canada as 
 much as any other part, are now 
 praying, " God save the Queen, in 
 this the day of her double grief." 
 Seventeen years ago, there lived in 
 close relations to the Court, and in 
 friendship with the Queen and Prince- 
 Consort, a Scottish pastor — a noble, 
 generous, simple-minded, earnest, able 
 man, who left his mark upon his own 
 country, and far beyond it — Dr. 
 Norman McLeod. It is kno^\Ti that 
 in the midst of Her sorrows, next to 
 Her now departed daughter, there was 
 no friend to whom Her Majesty clung 
 with greater tenacity, and no pastor 
 from whose private ministrations she 
 derived greater comfort than from Dr. 
 
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 McLeod. The royal children too 
 made him their friend in the day of 
 their trouble. Between six and seven 
 years ago, I visited Scotland, and 
 spent a day with Dr. McLeod in his 
 house in Bath Street, Glasgow. It 
 was, I believe, the last day he ever 
 sat at table with his family. Many 
 topics of conversation were introduced 
 and discussed. In some way or other, 
 the conversation turned on the Eoyal 
 Family, on the death of the Prince- 
 Consort, and the overwhelming grief 
 of the Queen on that occasion. In 
 course of the conversation he went to 
 his bookcase, took down a thick, well 
 bound quarto Bible, and opening the 
 cover, directed my attention to an 
 inscription on the blank leaf. It was 
 a beautifully - worded acknowledg- 
 ment of the kindness and sympathy 
 to the undersigned, in their day of 
 sorrow at the loss of their father, of 
 
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 him to whom the Bible was thus 
 presented. Who think you were the 
 undersigned 1 — '' Victoria Princess 
 Eoyal," *' Albert Edward," ''Alice," 
 *' Alfred," and so on. Each of the 
 royal children had signed the inscrip- 
 tion, and the Bible was sent to Dr. 
 McLeod, and cherished by him as the 
 gift of the children of the Queen and 
 the Prince-Consort. You will not 
 wonder if I add that a gleam of satis- 
 faction, and even of pride, flashed 
 across the good man's face as he 
 pointed to the signatures of those 
 children whom he had made his fast 
 friends. 
 
 Our minds turn this morning to 
 Windsor and to Darmstadt. Our 
 sympathies and prayers cross the 
 Atlantic and abide with the stricken 
 ones across the sea. They turn also 
 to another spot, nearer home : to 
 Eideau Hall, and to the grief-bowed 
 
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 Sister, whose joy and hope, so justly 
 raised by all that she has lately passed 
 through and enjoyed, as the daughter 
 of her Eoyal Mother and the wife of 
 her noble, husband, have been so 
 suddenly extinguished. It is sad to 
 think that here, separated from all 
 the members of her own family — a 
 Family whose ties and bonds are 
 stronger and closer than those that 
 unite most families — she should, thus 
 early in her residence among us, be 
 called to pass through this gloom and 
 sadness of sorrow. Every Canadian 
 who knows what prayer is, and how to 
 pray, will lift up his heart in earnest 
 crying, that the consolations of God 
 the Father, the Son and the Holy 
 Ghost may, in some degree, penetrate 
 the darkness which, like a funeral 
 pall, this day enshrouds the Vice- 
 Regal home. 
 
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