PRAYERS FOR GERMANS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 20, 29 December 1915, Page 5

PRAYERS FOR GERMANS.

THE MOST PAINFUL LESSON f~ THE WAR. [United Press Association.] London, December 27. At special Christmas Day servic . the Yen. Dr. Wilherforce, Archdeaf '■ i of Westminster, explained his pray- > fqr the German people. He sa “We are not praying that they r ~y not be vanquished, or punished, Int that they may be emancipated fr mi tlie curse of Prussianism, and str off the fetters'of the cruel, military despotism which oppresses them. Dean Inge, in St. Paul’s, called . .<• nation to a great campaign of eopiy. He said they must face the /•'•** t a intv that Britain would emeige 1 n the, war very poor: To do somet .ig useful, and to make good what v'g lost, would make the present a w! 'dosome training,school for the next g neration and their aims. Canon Carhegic, of Westrair r, said that the most painful lessc • f the wav was Great Britain’s laol nt strong, intelligent leadership. Tfc, selection of men to lead the ir *v>ri, should have been more in the ban ol the people. . .1 - • ■