PRAYERS FOR PEACE

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2220, 5 August 1914, Page 7

PRAYERS FOR PEACE

IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY SELF-CONTROL AND SELF-DISCIPLINE London, August 3. '■ The churches of all denominations arecrowded, the congregations praying for peace. .'■'.- , "The Tinies" cays that every pew in Westminster Abbey qn Sunday was cccnpied long before tho commencement of tho service.' The Archbishop of Canterbury, after a prayer for peace, commenced his sermon, but Suffragettes rose up in various parts and shouted out. The vergers ejected thorn. One was found fastened to a chair. ; In the course of his sermon the Archbishop declared that the ovcnts in Europe were not the work of ,Gbd, but of the Devil, due to the stubbornness of inan thwarting Gfod|s handiwork. He prayed that God grant that ; the' etormcloud should roll by •svithout breaking; He urged that for the common good the people should show steadiness, self-confir*!, and feolf-discipline..

SPECIAL DAY OP PRAYER

(By Telegraph—Press Association.) Dunedin, August 4. The- Dunedin Presbytery to-day, roeolved to keep Sunday next as a special day of prayer and waiting''on: God in connection with the present' critical state , of European affairs; slab to agree to co-operate with other bodies, in this matter. ■ -

WELLINGTON PRESBYTERY'S RESOLUTION ■

■ A special meeting of the,,, Wellington Presbytery was held last evening;' the Rev. J. Kennody Elliott (Moderator) presiding. The following -. resolution, moved Ky the Rev. Dr. I.Gibli; and seconded by tlio Upv. W. Shiref (clerk), was carried unanimously :—-"That this Presbytery, in view of the calamity that has befallen Europe, and the ..dangers which threaten Great Britain, desires to call their people 'to prayer that God 1 may, in His suprcih'o mercy, preserve us in peace and bring the -war, but now bej:un, to a s\vift end; the Presbytery,, while repudiating the assertion that war, for whatever reason engaged in, is' always iniquitous, ai\d realising that the hour may now emanate wnen for I the cake of manifold iateiests Britain.

mus6' uneheath the sword, profoundly , deplores the; fact; that the .nations' of the earth arc- still cohstr'aihed-fo\ frill back* on tho bnital arbitrament of the battlefield for the adjustment of their differences; the Presbytery is deeply persuaded that tho condition of the world to-day calk for a humbling of heart before AlmightyJGod on the part .of all Christian and thoughtful peoplo, and unceasing eupplication that Ho Who ordains all things in Heaven and on. earth,; according to His own .will, may. have inercy oii us andbn'all nieh';' the Presbytery prays that tie day may, speedily coine when war will be impbs- : sible, and that the present sad happenings, may be over-ruled for the glory of God and the permanent good/ of the world."

It was tlso resolved:—"That it be an instruction of tho Presbytery' to ministersvwithin the bounds to observe next Lord's Day as a day of special supplication for the Empire and the world in view of the present crisis.."- "