KING’S RELIGION

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 309, 15 December 1936, Page 5

KING’S RELIGION

ARCHBISHOP PLEASED CORONATION SERVICE. “Noble Words Will Find Response In his Heart/’ Press Association—Copyright. (Received 1 p.m. To-day). London, December. 14. The House of Lords met this morning to take the oath of allegiance to King George. Viscount Halifax, moving the Loyal Address, said that they were accustomed to speak of (the Crown as a link with all parts of the Dominions, but he thought it was more than that. Great and melancholy events had brought Crown and people together in a desire to shade the bdfrden those evenjts had imposed.

Just because the Crown was so seriously founded in the affections of the people, so the Crown and the people were together in a situation which had placed great strain on each. Lord Snell (Labour) asked for realisation of-the difficulty of the speech he had to make on behalf of a great democratic party not formally committed to the monarchical as against other forms of government. He believed it a fundamental and unalterable principle that although the King might ij'eign, the people through their Parliaments must rule. Labour had frequently illustrated its willingness to put plans for the public good before its own apparent political advantage and in accordance with that habit did not intend raising any difficulty by' dividing the issues. The Party desired a complete transition to the new reign, as speedily as possible in order that urgent social and economic questions might be attended to. The Archbishop of Canterbury said it was an immense satisfaction to him to realise that he could address to His Majesty tthe noble words of the Coronation ceremony with a full sense of their reality and in the knowledge that they would find a response in the King’s heart. The address was unanimously adopted.