THE KING’S RELIGION

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 39, 25 January 1936, Page 5

THE KING’S RELIGION

Unwearied Search for Chance to Show Kindness.

CHARACTERISTICS WERE NOT INHERITED TRADITIONS

Press Association—Copyright. London. Jan. 23,

The Times’ editorial pays a tribute to the late King’s religion and comments on Parliament’s prayer written in 1662: ■‘Cur most religious and gracious King.” “If loyalty rather than veracity was applied as the first adjective to the King then reigning.” says the article, “veracity no less than loyalty finds in it a true description of the monarch we mourn 10-day. “Tributes would draw a false portrait if they ascribed his characteristics chiefly to inherited tradition or, indeed, to any other source than the firmly held religious faith and utter self-forgetful-ness with which la set himself his daily task. The unwearied search for opportunities of showing kindness were a direct consequence of his religion. “All who less than n month ago heard the King’s Christmas message will recall that ‘God help me’ as he spoke of .himself in impressive sincerity. Who can but feel to-day that that prayer has been answered? The help which strength -

encd him throughout his reign did not fail him at the end It spared him what he long dreaded, another long illness or the disabilities of old age. A happy Christmas with hi; family in a sotting he loved best, a swift passage througn the shadow, an . so home. God helped him, and that right early.”