HIS MAJESTY THE KING

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21465, 6 May 1935, Page 12

HIS MAJESTY THE KING

PERSONAL LIFE AND

WORK

TRIBUTE PAID AT ST. PAUL'S CHURCH

Special mention of the life and work of his Majesty the King during the 25 years of his reign was made last evening at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church by the Rev. A. C. Watson, at the end of an address on the ideal of a better world and the best means of serving that ideal. "It is appropriate that on the eve of the day when British people will unite in thanksgiving for the 25 years' reign of his Majesty the King, that we should make some reference to his life and work," said Mr Watson. "We have been singularly blessed.in his personal life and work. Our Empire has been spared the violent revolutionary changes that have taken place in other countries, and we recognise that one of the chief causes of the stability of the British Commonwealth of Nations has been the work and service of her sovereign. "His Majesty is a man to whom duty is the very breath of existence, to whom the welfare of his people is a chief and constant concern; a man who is the embodiment of honour, sympathetic understanding and devotion. His life and the life of his distinguished family have been in accord with the motto of his eldest son, 'I serve.' "Fifteen hundred years ago there lived in the city of Rome a poet named Claudian who wrote: 'The people are fashioned according to the example of their king and laws are of less power than the model which his life exhibits' The reigning monarch of Great Britain is not a dictator but a moderator, not a lawmaker but an examplar. Is it not in this spirit that we enter the season of thanksgiving "