DAY OF PRAYER
ANGLICAN CHURCH ARCHBISHOP’S .WISHES. SUGGESTIONS FOR THURSDAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, December 28. Archbishop West-Watsop (Christchurch) issued the following statement last evening:—“ln response to the appeal by His Majesty the King, President Roosevelt and other church leaders that January 1 should be kept as a day of prayer, I suggest that in the Anglican Churches where possible Cl) watchnight services be adapted to this purpose, (2) celebrations of holy communion on January 1 should have this special intention and (3) that intercession services be held on the evening of January 1 and that at all services the President and people of the United States b,e specially remembered.”
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. The Right Rev. John Davie, Moderator of the Prebyterian Church of New Zealand, has iss.ued the following statement:
“In conformity with the decision of church leaders in the- Old Land, I, as Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, call upon the congregation of our church throughout the Dominion to observe January 1, 1942, as a day of prayer and that services be held at such an hour as local circumstances dictate.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 December 1941, Page 2
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