TESTING OF THE NATION
Call Made To Britons
ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, May 12. Preaching at Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Cosmo Lang, made a stirring call to the nation for unity and courage in the face of the danger threatening it. Referring to the fact that the full force of the war might at any moment reach the people’s own doors, his Grace said: “The hour has come. It has struck, and with it comes a testing of the nation. By the invasion of Belgium and Holland. following quickly on the invasion of Denmark and Norway, the ruler of Germany has thrown down the challenge to the peace and freedom of the whole world. It is the spiirt of the people that must rise to meet the challenge. Let the whole nation stand behind the King’s forces at sea, on land, and in the air with indomitable and undaunted spirit.
“At the present momentous time in human history, can we 'doubt that the forces of evil now breaking the peace of the world, overthrowing the freedom of nations, and of free peoples, scorning truth, and trampling on justice and mercy are arrayed against, everything that we can conceive the Divine will and purpose to be.”
The Archbishop led the congregation in prayer for the leaders of the Government and for the forces of the peoples who' have suffered the bitter ordeal of invasion.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 7
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239TESTING OF THE NATION Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 195, 14 May 1940, Page 7
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