KING AT ETON CHAPEL

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 July 1932, Page 3

KING AT ETON CHAPEL

A FRANCISCAN BROTHERHOOD. WINDSOR, June 12. The work of reclaiming the your.?, vagrant, carried out by a brotherhood who follow the ideals of St. Francis, was the subject of the sermon which the King and Queen heard 'this morning in College Chapel, Eton. Their Majesties, who had left London

for Windsor yesterday, motored over, accompanied by the Earl of Harowood to attend the service. The preacher was the Rev. Bro. Douglas, of the Brotherhood of St. Francis of Assisi, from Cerne Abbas, Dorset. He described the work of the newly--formed fraternity to which he belonged in reconditioning and finding employment for the homeless unemployed men who had taken to a life of vagrancy. He made an earnest appeal on behalf of -these wayfaring men,

whom they were trying to get reinstated in industry. The majority the men, he said, who wished to forsake the life of a. tramp and enter the home were under 30. After the service Brother Douglas was presented to their Majesties. Later the King and Queen were shown the Mediaeval Exhibition in Upper School. On the oak panelling of (he wall the Queen was amused to notice the name, Henry, of the Duke of Gloucester, carved among the names of other old Etonians.