NATION AT PRAYER
EMPIRE-WIDE RESPONSE. EXALTED FEELING. LONDON, March 23. "We have reason to feel exalted rather than humiliated," declared the Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Cosmo. Lang), in the course of a sermon preached in connection with the National Day of Prayer to-day.
The King and Queen, accompanied hy the Princesses, attended Divine worship at a little church in the country to-day. •
In London a service was conducted tinder the ruins of a church which is being cleared after a Nazi raid. Throughout the Empire there was a notable response to His Majesty's appeal. Millions in India offered prayer and at Shanghai churches of all dodominations, as well as the synagogues, were filled.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 24 March 1941, Page 7
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