13 MAY 1911, Page 17

THE NEW MORALITY. -

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,.—IS it the sign of a new morality that in the Benediction which follows the crowning in the Coronation Service a

carious change has been made P In the services for the last two Coronations it ran: " The Lord give you a fruitful country," (lox, and ended with "an honest, industrious, and obedient Commonalty." In the service put forth for Sing George's Coronation the Benediction is unchanged, except the last sentence, which now runs : " an honest, peaceable, and obedient Commonalty." Do our rulers in Church and State consider industry an exploded virtue ?—I am, Sir, &c.,