Saturday, 28 March 2020

Queuing to pray, not for toilet roll

During the Second World War, King George VI summoned the nation to prayer. He said this:

"I desire solemnly to call my people to prayer. I hope that throughout the present in crisis in Europe there may be offered up earnest, continuous and widespread prayer. If from every place of worship, from every home and factory, men and women of all ages and races and occupations, prayers and petitions rise, then, please God, the predictions of the ancient psalm may be fulfilled: The Lord will give strength to his people; the Lord will give the blessing of peace."
People queued, not to get toilet roll, but to get into churches to pray...

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