"Now the danger is over, but 6 sce that in a very real sense. that Hines has been overruled for good. Our prayers have been answered. We trust that the King may live for many years to learn how surely he has won not only the Empire's homage and respect but its affection.
his first public message, a message which strikes a right kingly note, there is with him in what we! ing, a corporate service of thanksgiving to Almighty God, recognizing that in His "Hands alone are the issues of life and death. How bountiful is His Pro-snee, all that we have comes from We depend upon Him for every pleasing both material and wal. In His love and His wrerey be eaves for us. He 30 loved the world that when mankind was enslaved by sin He gave His own Son to be the world's Saviour. And rightly our King, the head of cur Church sets an example on this occasion by his call to thanksgiving.
"But it is alo a call to service.
After voicing his gratitude that he has been privileged to see such evidence of the confidence and affection that his people bare towards him, the'King goes on to urge a wider ' sympathy and deeper charity toward all needy and suffering. In the sympathy shows doring'his illness by the peoples of other nations by sees'the evidence of growing kindliness significant of. the true-nature of men and nations. May it mark the beginning of an age of international understanding, an age when men of all creeds and races. will realize their essential Kinships and will find in the troubles of their neighbours the. opportunity, not for self-aggrandizement, but "for sympathetic and) Gisinterested service.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.