NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF OUTBREAK OF WAR (Rec. 10 a.m.) Rugby. Aug. 16. The King has appointed 3rd September, the fifth anniversary of the war, as a national day of prayer and dedication. The Home Office makes the following announcement: “On the day of the first landings in France, the King called his people to prayer and dedication and expressed the hope that throughout the present crisis of the liberation of Europe there might be offered up earnest, continuous and widespread prayer, and it is the desire of His Majesty that 3rd September, the fifth anniversary of the outbreak of the war, shall again be observed as a national day of prayer and dedication. Leaders of churches have made plans for observance of a national day of.prayer in churches of all denominations throughout the country.” The following is issued by the Archbishop of Canterbury: “Once more the King calls us to observe 3rd September, the day on which this country entered the war, as a day of prayer. This year we shall observe it with thanksgiving and hopefulness. We shall give thanks for the successes gained by our own forces and those of our Allies and for the leadership of our nations and our forces as well as for the courage and devotion of the men and women in the Nav3'. Army and Air Force.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 17 August 1944, Page 5
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