INTERCESSION SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2352, 7 January 1915, Page 5

INTERCESSION SERVICE

PRIMATE'S TEXT "THE PEACE OF GOD WHICH PASSETH AIL UNDERSTANDING" London, January 6. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Most Rev. Dr. Davidson), preaching at the intercession sorvice at St; Paul's Cathedral, took for his text "The peace of God, which passeth all understanding." He said: "We meet in the largest church in the Empire, _at the central pivot of its throbbing life, on the first Sunday of what must be a memorable year. The war is in a.greater area and on a scale of more fearful carnage than, any since life round the world began. It has baffled the power of man to reckon the load of sheer blank sorrow in innumerable homes. Yet, facing all this, I have taken deliberately my text, and will maintain its absolute fitness to our. thoughts. to-day."—("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) CREAT UNION OF PRAYER. THROUGHOUT THE EMPIRE. London, January 5. The "Times," in a leader, saysj — "The solemn religious services which with one mind and heart were held throughout the Kingdom wfere profoundly impressive. ; Never since the first permanent divisions of Christendom has there been so great a union of prayer for a common end. Par beyond the oceans our fellow-subjects sent up their petitions with ours." '