CHRISTMAS SERMONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 308, 28 December 1915, Page 5

CHRISTMAS SERMONS.

THE CURSE OF PRUSSIANISM. LONDON, December 27. The special Clyistmas Day services were marked by many notable addresses. T'ue Yon. Albert Archdeacon of Westminster, explained hie prayers for the German people. "We are not praying that they may not be vanquished or punished," he said, "but we are praying that they may be emancipated from the curse of Prussianism, and that they may strike off the fettersof the cruel military despotism that oppresses them." Dorii Inge, preaching \at St. Paul's Cathedral, called the nation to a great campaign of economy. He said they must face the certainty that Britain would emerge from the war very poor. To do somethiiig useful and make good what they had lost,, to make the present a wholesome training school for the next generation must be their aims. Canon Carnegie, rector of St. Margaret's, said the -most painful lesson of the war was Britain's lack of strong intelligent leadership. The selection of men to lead the nation should have been more in the hands of the people. TURKS AND THE MONITORS. SINKINGS DENIED. -•- ■ LONDON, December 27. The Turkish reports of the sinking of British monitors at Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, are officially denied.