BRITAIN’S TASKS AND DUTIES
KING CALLS FOR DAY OF PRAYER OBSERVANCE ON JULY « LONDON, May «. NO. 10 Downing Street has announced that His Majesty the King desires July 6 to be observed as a national day of prayer in view of Britain’s tasks and duties. The Archbishops of Canterbury and York, in a joint statement, urge that every citixen should prepare lor July 8 by serious thought. Tme necessities of national life, they said, could ba secured only by long and severe exertions. and the- severity of the task demanded subordination to the com- , mon good of personal advantage and sectional interests. “We call on fellow citizens in the coming weeks to examine the national life and their personal lives by the standards of the Ten Commandments and Christ's teaching, to repent ot irreligion, which distorts personal lives and the common life, and to seek daily the help of God.”
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25178, 8 May 1947, Page 7
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