. ,141.1n Sunday the Prince of Wales was the theme
of both prayer and sermon iu the churches of almost every religious body of England, and curiously enough, apparently rather more than less among the Catholics and Nonconformists than in the churches of the Establishment, where, of course, the Archbishop's prayers for him and the Queen and Princess were read, but where the sermons were less frequently occupied with the subject of the hour than in the more popular and interest-studying pulpits of the Dissenters. The Archbishop of Canterbury's prayer for the Prince was a very manly one, quite worthy of its author, a prayer without a touch of adulation, recognizing indeed the Prince's need of God's pardon as plainly as it was possible for words to put it. In this respect, the prayers put up for the Prince at the Jewish Synagogue, at the Metropolitan Tabernacle (Mr. Spurgeon's), and at the Surrey Chapel (Mr. Newman Hall's) were much more reticent. The ser- mons on the occasion were such as might be expected, full of good feeling, but not otherwise remarkable. The lesson that disease and death do not specially respect crowned heads is one which it is sometimes worth while to enforce,—for, in point of fact, people are amazed and even awe-struck when they are thus rudely reminded of it,—but it is hardly one on which it is possible to make a remark worth permanent record.
