EMPIRE DAY SERVICES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 109, 25 May 1937, Page 7

EMPIRE DAY SERVICES

—Press Assn.—

Royalty at St. Paul's Cathedral CONGREGATION 0F 4000

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(Received 25, 9.0 a.m.) LONDON, May 24. Empire Day was favoured with brilliant sunshine, enabling the crowds who watched tho Royal visit to St, Paul's Cathedral to watch in perfeet comfort, the customary obgervauces elsewhere The congregation numbered 4,000, including. twenty members of the Royal Family, Mr. Stanley Baldwin, members of the Cabinet, and many Dominion representatives attended the Cathedral service. Four cantering mounted constables preceded the Eoyal carriage, which was drawr hy four greys ridden by two pos-

DR. WILLIAM TEMPLE tillions with scarlet-clad outriders nt the back and front. The King wore morning dress and the Queen wore a froek of lilac blue, with a fur collar. The Lord Mayor, Sir George Broadbridge, greeted their Majesties on the Cathedral steps. As the bells spread the joyous sound the head Grecianscholar presented an illuminated address to the King. The service, which began at noon, lasted fully an hour. It was fully choral. In his Empire Day sermon at St. Paul's Cathedral, .the Archbishop of York, Dr. William Temple, claimed that there was a place in the providential scheme for th§/ Empire, the very existence of which constituted their vocation. Nevertheless, it was only too manifest that the present world was not effeetively subjeet to divine authority nor was God's sovereignty acknowledged, his law obeyed nor his purpose fulfilled.