“MOTHER OF MERCHANTS”
At the Church of All Hallows, Bark-iug-by-the-Tower, the annual service of the Port of Lbndon was held. This is attended chiefly by seafaring men. During the service the "bidding prayer is recited, and contains thus striking passage: "Therefore I bid your prayers for this old mart of nations, the" harvest of whose river is her revenue, that in her port be praise ami tli.e continued fame of honesty, a city’s crowning honour. You shall here pray for London, mother of merchants, and for the storied tideway of the Thames, for troubled pools, her conduit to the oceans, for chains of lakes, inward from either bank, stirred by the traffic to and from the stream for every vessel, least as well as greatest, finding fair haven here, aud for all the small craft occupied amid the sudden danger? of these lower roaches.”
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 70, 16 December 1937, Page 3
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144“MOTHER OF MERCHANTS” Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 70, 16 December 1937, Page 3
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