KING'S DESIRE

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 193, 16 August 1941, Page 7

KING'S DESIRE

NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER

LONDON, Aug. 15

Referring to the King's desire that Sunday, September 7, should be observed as a national day of prayer in Britain, the Archbishop of Canterbury. Dr. Cosmo Lang, writes that he will have a ready response from his people. "It is only right that the nation should humbly acknowledge its dependence on God and commit its cause to the Judge of all the earth on the Sunday immediately following the second anniversary of the day when it entered the greatest crisis of its long history." says the Archbishop.

"As the third year of war begins, while there is much for which we have reason to give thanks, there is a special call to remember in prayer the armies and people of Russia in their heroic resistance to the military might of Germany, and the new and grave anxieties which are rising in the Near and Far East. We know not what trials or dangers may be coming. Pray wc. therefore, for courage to meet them and strength to overcome them.

'So far as the Church of England is concerned it is not proposed to issue any new forms of prayer. The clergy already have copies of the forms issued fcr May 26, 1940. and March 23, 1941. These may still be used, adapted to the needs and circumstances of their several congregations.

'"It is to be hoped that those who are responsible for the arrangement of work in factories and workshops and for the training of the Home Guard and other branches of civilian service, will make it possible for all on this Sunday to join in the united national act of remembrance ,of God and of prayer for help and strength ,m -straggise/'