London, Dec, 14.
A striking call to the nation to return {o religion was made by the Archbishop of Canterbury in a broadcast address to-day, in the course fof which he voiced bitter disappointment over King Edward's decision abdicate, Edward VIL he said, received from God a high and sacred trust, With characteristic frankness, he told lus of his motive for surrendering that trust, Tt was a craving for private happiness, How strange and sad it must be that for such a motive, however strongly it pressed upon his. heart, he should have disappointed hopes 60 high and abandoned a trust go great, Even more strange and sad, proceeded the Archbishop, was the fact that he should have sought his happiness in a manner inconsistent with the Christian principles of marriage and within a social circle whose standards and ways of life were lien to all the best instincts and traditions of his people.
"Let, those who. belong to his celrcie," he added, "mow to-day that they Stand rebuked by the judgment of a nation which loved King Edward, How can we forget the high hopes and promise of Edward's youth. his genuineness, his care for the poor and unemployed, and his eager service both at home and across the seas.
"It 4s the remembrance of these things that wrings from our hearts the ery: The pity of it! Oh, the pity of it1""—Reuter,
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