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News of the Week

The King

AST Sunday the King and Queen attended the long- A expected Service of Thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey, which was conducted by the Archbishop of Canter- bury. All accounts of this solemn and simple service show that it was like no other ceremony ever held for the same purpose. There was no military grandeur and for the first time a considerable part of the Abbey was thrown open to the public. Those who came early enough were able to find seats, to the number of about a thousand. The King afterwards expressed to the Archbishop his appreciation of the beauty of this " sacrifice of thanks- giving "—repeating the sense of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice's effective lines which were sung by the choir.

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