PEACE PRAYERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 221, 19 September 1938, Page 3

PEACE PRAYERS.

NATIONAL APPEAL.

AUSTRALIAN SERVICES. MR. LYONS' EXAMPLE. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY. September 15. On the imitation of the Prime Minister, Mr. Lyons, all denominations throughout Australia celebrated Sunday I as a National Day of Prayer for Peace. | Mr. Lyons attended the Catholic Church at Canberra several times during the day and the acting-! iovernor-lieneial. Lord li'.mtingtieid. represented the Common- ! wealth at the Anglican Church there. ! In New South Wales, the Governor. Lord: Wakthurst. and the Minister for Trans- ' port. Mr. Rruxner, representing the Pie-; Niicr. Mr. Stevens, attended the Angii- I can set vices at St. Andrew's Cathedral. ; Mr. Stevens attended 1 er vices of his own! denomination at the Met hod Vt Church. Jews Join With Chrictians. | The .lewi-di community held their ; special service nil their own Holy Day,' Saturday, lint on Sunday the unu-ual i spectacle of .lews mid Chri-tians joining together in a son iee was witnessed at the Salvation Army Congress Hall, where a joint intercessory service was held by the Salvation Army and leading .Jews. Some signi Mennt were read I at this >er\ ice. Among them was one of goodwill from the Prime Minister. On behalf of the Church of England, the Rishop Coadjutor sent a me>.-age respectfully offering hi* Church's sincere -ympathy with persecuted Jews throughout the world. Speaking the same niirl-it at the Maccabean Hall. R-ibbi Falk said. ""In the event of (treat Britain's entry inti» a European conflict, we. <>< loyal Jews and citizens of the British Ivnpire. , will fight for her, for God, for King and for Country." Another unusual service was held at the Central Baptist Church in the city. Two peace intercessory service were held, at 2 p.m. and •"> p.m.. and so that they could attend both of these., as well as the usual services, the congregation I brought their lunch and tea with them. Among the preachers of the day there were three who struck a frankly critiI cal note. One of these, the Bishop of Gnulburn. Rt. Rev. E. H. Burgmann, is well known for his outspoken remarks from time to time on social affairs. On Sunday he said: "Having prayed for world peace, the Christian Church must now prove its sincerity by righting to eradicate ell forms of social injustice which make for war. To do this it must follow up its day of prayer with a sustained campaign to correct social evils. There is no possibility of peace between the,nations unless justice is worked into the very constitution of our social order." "Guidance Already Received." A Presbyterian preacher, the Rev. T. McDotigal, of Rose Bay. also made some frank remarks. Australia, he said, should pray not for guidance, but that we should l>e loy«l to the guidance already received. Otherwise, he declared, the national day of prayer would be a piece of national hypocrisy. '•There are maliv things in Australia's national policies and practices contrary to what we already know of God's will," he said. "Let us straighten these out first, even before praying for the world and its present state."