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“LEECHRỪNG,”

KING AND QUEEN AT ST. with its blazoned figus of the great

PAUL'S CATHEDRAL, Apostle of the Gentiles. In the preces sion were the Dean and Canons of St. Paul's.

· PEACE. THANKSGIVING

wearing nagnificent copes „af white and gold, the Bishop of London, In-St. Paul's Cathedral throughout the the Bishop of Banger, and Bishop Mont- gomery. The Archbishop of Canterbury war was expressed the Empire's most

was vested in a sumptunus cope of crim solemn aspirations. From it arose the son and gold. Present,

invited representatives of the theHIPPING and Commission Agents, prayers for the Airers of our arras Churches the Ray Robert Kilgour within it were said the list reqlaims for D.D., Church of Scotland: Sir Joha Me

The thanksgivings of the the Res. Henry Smith, Presdent of the

Leer, fur the fallen.

for the Congregational Churches; English people have been expressed upon | Metropolitan Free Charchuteration: the same site sings Elizabeth, after the Dr. Barlow, of the Wesleyan Methodists President-De Armada, rejuicid with her people below the B Joha

of the nited signate Haus the wall upon which hung. the

the RM. P. Davison.. unken from the enemy, Therefore it was Methodist Church and Commisioner at St. Paul's that the Empire, thaugh Edward Higgins, the Salvation Army. its chosen, gepresentatives, offered its tří bute, in the liver of Victors; at a great service on July 6th, attended by the King and Queen, which, in its quiet sim plicity, summed up much of the national

th pence wherewith the ong

of the past deals has been

That was the notes of the shold

service.

No massed bands from inmons regiments either in starlet and gol of the khaki of active servire, led the gate with the phasis of brass and drums. Instead, was a surpliced rhes tra and the gentler strings

trit

Methodist

The Archbishop paused light, and the Lord Mayor bearing erret the the hig. A not very imposing dark toric pearl sword, immediately preceded oak talile. with a thick cushion of Lore- what inded red velvet, WAS

rather ja

protein place for the famous civic mble of Justle, but upon this it was Besides the laid before the Sovereign Queen, who was wearing a long grey

derp satin boat and

father collarette, there were present: Queen Alexandra, the Prince of Wales, Prince Albert, Princess Mary trinitari t'rincess

the Princess Royal, with Princess

with Erincess Alice, the Marquis plen Duchess of Albany, the Earl

of f Can daugh ide

Lat

Princess: Marie Lois and Lord Leopold Mount- batten.

Exactly the sure for enjoined in Orst in the Port of Vigo by the Byke off all churches and chapels in Brgland and and Wabes

and harp.

Yes it was a service that

I followed full precedents established

Quers Anne

that first

and Lady Mays

in 1701, at St. Paul's, site, reto bridge and his

the sees of John Bard of Marlborough, in and for the destruction of the Spanish First

and in the town of Berwick-upon-

in 1 successive years weal to render the Tweed was followed at the service. In XI]13+ need of reverence after Blenheim, the opening thanksgiving there Gibraltar, Ramilies, Majorca, Minorca, tribute to the

| Oudenarde, and Malplaquet triumphs inty of our sailvery and devotion not

DISABLE SOLDIERS GIFT.

soldiers, and airmen which are rebord in our last hard-won bat of the merchant wamen and to all struggle.

the men and wor Lo secure virou who had fubcured Pulm 103 was sung to a chant by Sir Charles Villiers Stan ford, and the lesson read by the Dean was the noble 60th chapter of Isiah. A new setting for the Te Deum had been written since the armistice in view of this

•by the OFR service

of the Cathe dral, Dr. Charles moge

whn and a wide ducted it, and it has the dignity and

For King

Then, as on July th. the Council declared that the Cathedral being for that day the Queen's Chapel Royal, the seats were to be disposed of, and all the arrangments made, by the Lord Cham- berinin

But there was this difference. The Sorereign, two centuries and

ge, at upon a raised canopy was stretched over

Gorge and Queen Mary, were two chairs | Chur, that is in

con-

with the rousic of

immortaled upon that of

Tallis. More collects followed, and the Old Bundredth Psalm was sung with fine sonority, this first part of the service bar.

conducted by the Rev. S. J. C.

of rather severe ecclesiastical design the responses. was placed Los on a handsome Oriental rug at which to keep bad bert set for their Majesties, and for Queen Alexandra, and there were chairs for the rest of the Royal party, all these arragge ments having been made by the Rev. In the simple white surplice of or- W. P.

in conjunction with the dinary church use, the Archbisher de- Lord Chamberlain's office.

livered. the

There were many Grave and subdued was the whole set-

others who dress

himself recalled the ser ting in the sofflight of a morning over vice of exactly a year ago commemorat- car with clouds, yet to those who sating the Silver Wedding of the King under the dome facing towards the Queen, but few remembered that the day sacrarium there was the beautiful radi was the second anniversary of the mr- ance the altar, embodying

derous daylight raid on London, and the a symbolism poignant and splendid appeal. reminders of the day as it was in 1918 new frontak to which the Archbi

and 1015 were heard with deepest in- subsequently made such touching ence, is the offering and work of soldiers go disabled that they can only undertake Cuks

of po

The folving no physical exertion.

And

white satin forms the ground. the centre panel is the chalice, sug- gested, it is said, by a lad of 19, as the Etting emble of sacrifice

surely in plying a nuble submission to suffering in the words "the cup which My Father hath sent, shall I not drink it? The fair stitchery was put in by a man form erly in the Ride Brigade, who added to it the leam of chalcedony and other pro cious stones. On either side are crossed

and

The Archbishop spoke slowly and and his

his voice reached those seat- ed far away, fri

from him. The special col- lects were also recited by the Archbishop. from the pulpitan raceptional course, but the rubric to the order of service suggested that

that it might be

be adopted, Among them were prayers

for union and concord between the nations, for the League of Nations. for the Church, for the rulers and those in authority the British Empire, and for those who have suffered in the war: while the departed were commended to the Divine mercy. The whole cor

and perhaps nothing was palms embroidered in gold by Ben who Lerd's Prayer egation joined in the more impressive, than the low roll of thousands of voices repeating the fami

words in the natural and not the intoning pitch of vuier.

The

Inediction Pronounce

the hymn, Now thank was sung and in con.

kept the flag dying at sen to their own grievous wounding while the burdering includes the

ruse, alike of mystical

cal and national significance, wrought with con ventional foliage in artistic colourings. was Some sixty nunes are inscribed in a We all our

Nat

National Anthem.

roll that will ever commemorate these clusion there was the first verse of the hero handicraftmen, and many of them, in "wheeled chairs. or supported by crutches, were at the servien

VAST CONGREGATION.

A few moments pause for silent medi- tation, and the clergy came to escort the King and Quern to the west door.. in a grand burst of sound. jubilant It was a vast congregation that filled gay, almost mirthful, came the fanfare the space below the dome and stretched rounded from the western gallery by the to the doors of the north and south trumpeters of the Royal Horse Guards transepty. Sents to the right of the Kinz (Blue), It was a brilliant climax that were assigned to the Corps Diplomatique seemed to sum up in happiest cut-burst and early arrivals were the American and a £nal "Alf clear."" Japanese Arabasadors. Now and again

30,000 PEOPLE AT PRAYER.

There was more in the wonderful scene

there was recognition of someone well- known, has in the ding light it was far from easy to distinguish people, at distance. A large contingent of Army winwaved at St. Paul's Cathedfil, and nurses, Wearing their scarlet shoulder

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If we count the innumerable Teaching

from the

away down there were some 50,000 people who to Ludgate-circus, and probably beyond

capes, made bright patch of colour, and air service than many of its spectators The crowd, among which soldiers, wound- especially outside in the preceding open- of the women's services-the could have detected for themselves. Fored soldiers and nurses, formed conspicu Women's Royal Naval Service, Quennot only were the King and Queen, as Mary's Auxiliary Army Corps, the they stood with bared beads on the steps Women's Royal Air Fore--sent streng of Bt. Paul's surrounded by of the

many was an occasion, too, when those of authorities of the land-by the Lord reclesiastical, naval, and military It

differing faiths could unite in com Mayor, as first citizen of London, and mon worship and gratitude, and conspi Ministers of the Crown, and famous cuous were cloth of silver, and rose sailors and soldiers and powerful lay- turbans worn by twe Indianmen: it all the Dissenting donomian and one and aại Court of Common Council attended.

-Wesleyited Here and there was a naval, a military,

Methodists

Methodists, in this Methodists,

the

in the singing of the opening, hymn "All people tha earth do dwell and in the subsequent prayers. No greater evangel-

ities. Practically the whole of the tions were represented: Consistic open-air Divine service has ever

voice

procession into the Cathedral

yrans and prayers and thanksgivings and Queer were followed im-.

for peace.

be nediately by Queen Alexandra, on either

whom walked her grandsons, the "

or an air service uniform hat

and Salvationists-joined been held. In the silence that ensued the matter the change from war to peace con with the Royal family, and the vast en

of the Archbishop was heard bid- ditions was marked, as it was also in

gregation the brighter and more summerlike dresses

surrounding them, in tho

the people to offer thanksgiving to

of the women, after the sombre moura- ing seen at the memorial services.

All beneath and around was a mass of Thus the settin

Yet it was easily preliminary music inporditself. The varied colours,

setting for the

Occupying the central position organ

by Alan Gray, having as on the steps of St. Paul's were the boye its central idea Georg Herbert's line, "Let all the world in concert sing. By God and King "Peace, 10 inter mezzo for horas and Corder and the

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of Wales and Prince Albert, Mary and Princess Vietoria fol

Irish and Coldstre which, has not often been equalled even

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the people" had preserved were detachments of the Air Force in khaki, and of the collectively that reverential spirit that

Force Air

girls in blue. In the doubt they felt individually. But giving," written by Sir A. C. Mackenzie

when the King and Queen came out of front of the steps were two War, and at the conclusion of the South African companies of Boy Scouts, with many Azgs the Cathedral, at the conclusion of the

by conducted himself. Down of Empire In the centre of the enclosure service within, the pent-up feelings of the nave passed the component parts of were stationed the massed bands of the

hearts were not to be denied. The what was to be the procession, and pre-

National Anthem Grenadier,

provided the

oppor. sently 'there rolled up

the west Guards, under Captain Williams

for a display of patriotic fervour em door with most impressive effect in band was wearing the gorgeous red uni- decisive and shear-cut emphasis, the Na form and bearskin of old times. Up the in these days. The close spectator must tional Anthem, supported by the hands great steps was run a red carpet,

have observed, too, how, as the anthem, of the Coldstream and Irish Guards. suc by a red awning between the Cappad

with its

new verses, progressed, most of those seeded by the singing of the "Old Hun- mighty-pillars, and at paces ap the stepe stood trumpeters of the Royal Horse Guards, in golden tabards and jockey

the of black velvet

buildings of Empire-But most and most significant of all, were the deuse masses of citizens

dredth

THE PROCESSION.

decked with impressive of

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Every detail had been timed with mjauta, precision, and while the clung of the clock striking cleven was still rever- berating, the great cross at the the of the procession The bymn sung was "Praise, my soul, away down Ludgate-bill far as the was carried forward. Biling the Churchyard of St. Paul's sad the King of Heaven, to Goss's familiar tune, and in ordered stateliness advanced bridge which cuts short further visions the long line bearing high the banner, (Continued at foot of next colung.)

king, almost, imperceptibly, moved) until practically everyone was facing him. So, too, they must have noticed that the King's face, ve, but not.sad, was more than

as with a once compressed emotion. Finally, there was a great tamult of cheering when some big-

g-voiced man in the crowd

called for Three

rare

ebears far the King! and so ended a thanksgiving that will be ever memorable in the annals of the country.-Daily Telegraph.