By special request we now publish the sermon preached at All Saints? Church, Cairo, on April 24th, by the Very Rev. Dean Butcher D.D., on the death of Ford Beaconsfield.
Isian, IL, 1,3,3.—"For, behold, the Land, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water, 'The mighty' man, and the tau of war, te jadge, and te prophet, and of fifty and the honourable man, and the the, prudent and the ancient. The captain counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator."
Isaiah puts together two thin, Judah ited by two misfortune eof bread. 2ad.—Th hing striking in the connected. If there is true th: another individual and the Church it do not, they cannot, live by bread eis need of a higher ud of a spiritual sustenance. This trath tone declared by Our Lord and recognised in the religious history of nan, Here we find, if I anay 20 speak, Isaiah anticipating the Divine idea and applying it to secular life, if the Hebrew kingdom could be called secular. At least he puts #0 closely together the famine and the national losses that he suggests an. analogy between the tivo, and seems to say of realm, the loss of the whole stay of bread \d the whole stay of water is heavy, but the stay of patriots and sages is as important, and when these props are moved the fall of the in every church and chapel people congregate the will turn away for a brief moment pres rom the usual subjects of reflection at this speak of the illustrious man who haa been watched #0 anxiously and whose lous suggests 60 many thoughts, Te has been truly anid that ti certain times " Inndslips of men." The good and wise oftentimes pays away in groups and country seems terribly bereaved and Jou of its strength weakened by the loss of those who through to that which Issiah speaks about to befall his country. First wei cultivated her genius with such ill, the many-gifted welter who inh fifo and otd. Italinn lifo breathe with w fresh and woudewus vitality, the author of Adam Bede ant Romolo.' Was in fiction and poetry 'a uns tater there passe from ti midst of the generation he had so deeply influenced a writer to whom the Scripture words ind they are the the and to Thomas Carly narrowness and rugged-wed defects, aman been the intellectual food to the questions of many an enquiring spirit one who found out certain trathe and told man of altogether to be followed, Int yet them in a fearless way and was to hundreds "a prophet," whose grey head was crowned.
th the veneration that springs from gratitude, And now a third blow has fallen upon tus and one who was in a.special manner the counsellor" and " the el een removed.
This is not a place in which" one should speakk of politics. The clash and jar of rival parties are to be kept out of church, enough and shameful enough that we should ever have Christian unity broken by the rancour of religions disputes, It would be worse
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