"SOUL OF A NATION."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 175, 27 July 1915, Page 5

"SOUL OF A NATION."

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3M3rNl>pN, July Sfi. An '•immen.se crowd outside ?th© san^ '*<$) :Go#,.-our Help.in Ages tPast/" -accompanied by- the Stoyai Artillery tB.-uifl.

•Tl^e Bishop «f "Londoa preached on r*llie Soul of a Nation." He sa'iJjl i^hat France had 'lost : ho>ne .tei-ritory aaid Belgium hafl lost nearly th& whole of "hers; beat the «oul of tho nations was untosached, .or rather rise with renewed strength as a result of sacrifices.

A special intercession Latany for those killed in battle, followed by tho -^tymn "Lord of Life, to Thee we iery»" ended ihe sorvi-oe*. Tb© Bishoj? of London, his isernjon, said that Rtnasia within a. ar«ek had flu.ig aside vodka and the uatioTi was rmified xmder a leader. Russia would never be eoTifitiered whil© the world lasted, not only iwcaTise of her extent, but because nhe> had f^ven leaders to her people. The position in. Britain called for faniyersaJ military service. Only si isiew Er>gland come back to her l)es*^ . could save the world to-day. The Dnily Telegraph says that th« «ermon pi-omuts the question : "What is the s«fiil of Britain? Are we emerging from the ordeal as nobly as France and. flnssin ? Wo liave lieeu spared the unspeaka.blo horrors which liave befallen th^m. Are we doing ail we ought in order to mark our gratitude ? England is slow to move, fcnt the jnovoment is palpable. There fieod be no fear f<w the future.