UNITED PRAYER
DAV OF INTERCESSION APPOINTED BY ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY. WITH THE KING’S APPROVAL (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 11.30 a.m.) RUGBY, September 15. The Archbishop of Canterbury announced that with the approval of the King and by order of his Majesty’s Privy Council, Sunday, October 1, is appointed as a day of national prayer. By this order he is directed to prepare a form of. intercession for use in all churches and chapels in the provinces of Canterbury and York on that day, as well as on such other occasions as each bishop may appoint for his own diocese.
The Archbishop said he hoped that if this announcement reached any of the Dominions and colonies in time, the authorities of the various churches there would enable their people to join with their brethren in the United Kingdom in this act of united prayer to God.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1939, Page 8
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147UNITED PRAYER Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 September 1939, Page 8
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