COLONIALS AT HOME.
Received August 18, 11.12 p.m. London, August 18.
A special service was arranged for the Colonial Contingents in Westminster Abbey yesterday. The colonials occupied the galleries erected for Peers and Commoners for the Coronation service. They listened to the singing of the Abbey choir without joining in the Psalms.
When the hymn " Onward, Christian Soldiers " was announced, Bishop Welldon, Bishop of Calcutta, who preached, mounted the pulpit, glanced at the galleries, and beat time with his hand. Every colonial sang.
His Lordship declared in the course of his sermon that the character of the people had made the Empire great, and alone preserved it.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7543, 19 August 1902, Page 2
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