THANKSGIVING FOR THE KING
ORDER OF CHURCH SERVICES PRIVY COUNCIL GIVES APPROVAL. lltait&d Pres* Association— By Electric Telegraph Copyright). LONDON, March 6. The Privy Council has decided that the King’s jubilee thanksgiving service on May 6 will open with: the first verse of tjie National Anthem, followed, by the hymn “All People That bn Earth do Dwell.” Then will come Psalms 95 and 121, and, the lessons Joshua 1, 7,8 and. 9, and Revelations 21 : 10, 11, 23 and 24, followed by a short) address. Other hymns of thanksgiving will follow and four prayers, some from His Majesty’s accession service, including! one _ appealing for true fellowship arid; brotherly concord in the King’s Do-j minions in all.parts of the earth. Fnally there will bo the To Deum, and the first and third verses of the National, Anthem.
Tlio Times, in a loading article,! praises the now thanksgiving collects written for the jubilee service. It. says they are fully worthy to stand by the old prayers. Moreover they mark a valuable step towards Christian unity as the Free Churches are adopting them for their own services.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 8
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184THANKSGIVING FOR THE KING Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 8 March 1935, Page 8
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