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shed the Artillery and Engineers, with heads uncovered, sang “God save the Queen” with heart and voice proving their loyalty and whole-souled devotion to Her Most Gracious

Majesty. ST. PETER’S CATHEDRAL.

“ Matins were said at 10.15 a. In. There were two celebra- tions of the Holy Communion, the first at 8 a. m., at which the Incumbent was celebrant, and the second at It a. m., the full choir being in attendance. The Rev. T. H. Hunt was celebrant. The Rev James Simpson, M A., preached an eloquent and appropriate sermon from Ps. xx, vs. 6— —7, ‘Now I know that the Lord saveth his anointed, he will hear from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. Some trust in chariots and some inU horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God.’ The National Anthem was sung for the Post Communion, the large congre- gation present joining very heartily In the singing.

ST. JAMES CHURCH.

“The pastor, Rev. T. F. Fullerton, preached to large congre- gations morning and evening. At the morning service his text was taken from John 16: 13. In the evening the topic was found in Psalms 78: 7-8, ‘That they might set their hope in God and not forget the works of God, but keep his command- ments; and might not be as their fathers—a stubborn and rebellious generation.’ Eloquent reference was made in this discourse to Her Majesty’s high character and long and beneficent reign;and to the happy position of the Queen’s loyal subjects in Canada.”

GRACE CHURCH.

“ Rev. W. J. Kirby preached at II service in Grace Church. He spoke in the morning from Exodus 8: 19. ‘This is the finger of God.’ In the course of his sermon he attributed the secret of England’s greatness to Queen Victoria’s implicit trust in God, her earnestness in prayer and in seeking after the truth. The finger of God is manifest in the sparing and pro- tecting of the Queen’s life to such great length, while many others have been cut off; in her early Christian training, and in having chosen as her husband such a worthy man as the