to adore Him who made her what she was. Of His fulness she had received, and grace for grace, What she was she became through adoring faith in Christ, It is an elevating thing to gaze on human excellence, because through it the Highest becomes conceivable. It is a spirit-stirring thing to see saintly Goodness asserting its celestial origin by turning pale the lustre of the highest earthly rank. For in this universal mourning our noble country has not bowed the knee in reverence to the majesty which is of time. Every heart in England has felt that the Sovereign was merged in the servant of Christ. "The King's daughter was all glorious within." Hers was Christian goodness. Her eyes had beheld the King in his beauty; and therefore her life was beautiful, and feminine, and meek, and simple. It was all derived beauty. She had robed herself in Christ. "Reflecting back, as from a burnished mirror, the glory of the Lord, she was changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.” * *2 Cor. iii. 18. This appears to be the true force and rendering of the metaphor. Subjoined are the directions given by her late Majesty for her own funeral. The reader will be glad to have them preserved in a form less inconvenient than the columns of a newspaper. Should he be one who feels it a relief to miss, for once, the worn-out conventionalisms of religious expression, and come in contact with something fresh and living, he will find more in these quiet lines than in ten sermons: more to make a very happy tear start; more of the simplicity and the beauty of the life in God; more to cool the feverishness of his heart, and still its worldliness into silence; more of that deep rest into which the meek and humble enter; more that will make him long to be simple, and inartificial, and real, as Christ was, desiring only in life, and death, and judgment, to be found in HIM. [COPY.] "I die in all humility, knowing well that we are all alike before the Throne of God, and request, therefore, that my mortal remains be conveyed to the grave without any pomp or state. They are to be moved to St. George's Chapel, Windsor, where I request to have as private and quiet a funeral as possible. *I particularly desire not to be laid out in state, and the funeral to take place by daylight, no procession, the coffin to be carried by sailors to the chapel. All those of my friends and relations, to a limited number, who wish to attend, may do so. My nephew, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Lords Howe and Denbigh, the Hon. William Ashley, Mr. Wood, Sir Andrew Barnard, and Sir D. Davies, with my dressers, and those of my ladies who may wish to attend. "I die in peace, and wish to be carried to the tomb in peace, and free from the vanities and the pomp of this world. "I request not to be dissected, nor embalmed; and desire to give as little trouble as possible. November, 1849." (Signed) " ADELAIDE R. SERMONS. I. [Preached June 22, 1851.] CHRIST'S JUDGMENT RESPECTING INHERITANCE. LUKE Xii. 13-15. "And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me. And he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge, or a divider over you? And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth. THE Son of God was misunderstood and misinter preted in his day. With this fact we are familiar; but we are not all familiar with the consideration that it was very natural He should be so mistaken. He went about Galilee and Judea proclaiming the downfall of every injustice, the exposure and confuta tion of every lie. He denounced the lawyers who refused education to the people in order that they might retain the key of knowledge in their own hands. He reiterated Woe! woe! woe! to the Scribes and *This Sermon was accidentally omitted from its proper place after the 17th Sermon in Vol. I. "The Message of the Church to Men of Wealth." It was preached on the following Sunday, and is the sequel to that Sermon. |