SPECIAL SERVICES.
COLONIALS AT WESTMINSTER ABBEY.
NOT IN A HURRY TO SING,
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, Aug. 18. A special service arranged for the colonial contingents was held at Westminster Abbey yesterday, the colonials occupying the galleries erected for the peers and commoners for the Coronation service.
They listened to the singing of the Abbey choirs without joining in the psalms, but when the hymn “ Onward, Christian Soldiers” was announced, Bishop Weldon, who preached, mounted the pulpit, glanced at the galleries, and beat time with his hand, and every colonial sang.
The Bishop declared, in the course of his sennen, that the character of a people made an Empire great and alone preserved it.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 505, 19 August 1902, Page 2
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