The Archive · 1940

Gift of Prayer

People can help by spending sometime in prayer for the King, the Queen, the Prime Minister, the Teaders of the Navy, Army and Air Force; for the men in all the services, for their families, for the injured in the air-raids. Pray that courage and fortitude may be given to our civilian population during the trying days through which they are called {0 pass. Pray for widows and the fatherless, the lonely.

Give if you have to give and give' according to your means; it is one of the ways in which we can hasten the end of this cruel and unwanted War. We can pray, for we did earnestly seek to avoid and to thwart the outbreak. of the struggle, Pray. that peace will come and with peace uno hate, but goodwill among all men everywhere. "Pray that " poverty, famine and pestilence shalt cease oF averted, Pray for these who work amongst the wounded, the injured, the sirieken peoples; pray for the countless thousands of homeless, foodless, clothies wanderers.

Broken nights, and weariness following nervous tension are placing, new kind of burden upon our dear People in England, 'They are fighting a tiredness of a kind not known to civilians in this country. before. Let us pray' that their "determination to keep calm,

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