Cathedral Crammed.

Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 8, 1 October 1944, Page 7

Cathedral Crammed.

- This war is too sad for jvords. It is only the thought that God has some great purpose behind it that makes it bearable. For the Germans who have brought it about it is punitive.' For usj it is, I hope and .pray,remedial to cleanse and purify arid build up on real and everlasting foundations. . One is inclined to dispair at the lack of religion, or the signs of it, m the average -man. But there is evidently- mere than one thinks. When the news of the invasion reached us on June 6 a special edition of the Cape Times—-our^lead-ing newspaper— was immediately issued. Boys selling it m thestreets were rushed by the crowd. In it was advertised a special service of prayer m the Cathedral at Cape Town. This large building was crammed; people who couldn't get seats, were standing: where they could. It is said to be the largest' congregation seen m the Cathedral, Some large business firms closed down for a time so that their employees might go to the service;— The Right Rev. Dr.. W. H. Sedgwick former Bishop of Waiapu, now of Cape Town, writing to a friend m Hawke's Bay.