DUKE LEADS 3000 AT SERVICE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 98, 12 May 1937, Page 5

DUKE LEADS 3000 AT SERVICE

— Preia Abhi.—

Prayers of Intercession For Their Majesties 3ACRED EMPIRE LINKS

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(Received 12, 12.55 p.m.) LONDON, May 11. The Duke and Duchess of Kent led an audience of 3000 in the Queen's Hall in a service of dntercession for Their Majestiee. Speaking with emotion, the Duke said: "Two years ago I was present at your great gathering in the Albert Hall to celebrate the silver jubilee of Georg© V. Then we were looking back with gratitude for the 25 years of his reign, To-day we must look forward to new things. I hope to-morrow will be a happy day's holiday, but we must not forget that it is also a holy day. "We are fiere," he added, "to think on this aspect of our national rejoieinge and to remind oureelves that the great servu-co in the Abbey is no mere pageantj; that it is a religious ceremony of the very deepest significance. I have been on many journeys to the farthest corners of the Empire, and I know the closeness of the links which hold this Empire together. Al bottom they are sacred and family links bound up with God, Bing and Home. "In far-dietant lands many will be thinking of the King and Queen and of my dear mother. I remember as a boy the Coronation of my father, but she will have deeper and more personal memories of that day. We can all see how the hand of God guided the King and Queen crowned in 1911. To-day our hopes rise Eigfi that the same God wqU protect their new Majesties."