PRAYERS FOR THE NATION.
S ' LONDON, December 29. :' ; ,The. churches throughout London yesterday conducted special services with prayers for the nation. References were tnade to the country's political leaders smd the exhortation was -made : "Let us pray that we may bo spared the calamity of civil warity of civil -war," I Tho Archbishop. of Canterbury,preaching m Canterbury Cathedral, urged regulating Ireland "that wo should not 1 drift into mere anger and contempt of 1 our opponents." 1 The Bishop of Litchfield said : ; "The men who, -were concerned with ' ijiofching except the fortunes of their, pwn political 'party are the worst ene- '< iiies of. Britain and Ireland. Civil war 1 was a danger no matter whether the 1 talk was a bltiff or real peril." 1 .;- A special collect was used at West- ! minster. Abbey, praying God "to de-. 1 liver us. from , tho dangers Of discord threatening ns, particularly m Ireland, to take away. all hindrances, from Godly j union and to give the needed wisdom to i those m authority to guide us into the ; x way of peace." , .-. . 1
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13299, 7 February 1914, Page 10
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