CHRISTMASTIDE IN LONDON.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 99, 29 December 1914, Page 4

CHRISTMASTIDE IN LONDON.

SOLEMN CHURCH SERVICES. IMPR ESSIVE SERMONS. LONDON, Dee. 28. There were unusually large congregations at the Christmas services, many wearing mourning. The sermons we.e of a most impressive character. The Dean of St. Paul’s declared that we must not allow ourselves to talk of the ba nkruptey of Christianity and the nations because one nation had reverted t ■ moral .•avagery. The Dean of Westminster said that Christendom was shocked and affronted by the spectacle of defenceless towns being demolished, and women and children mastic red to satisfy the. bloodthirsty policy of ruthless terrorism. We might well inquire whether nonUrals were to look on unprotestingly, in hypnotised stupor, because interference might compromise their interests. Cardinal Bourne, at Westminster Cathedral, said men were beginning to realise the great truth that permanent peace depended upon union with God.