A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR ALL BRITONS. [To THE EDITOR
OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" Duke Domnm," writing from Southern California in
your issue of May 27th, expresses the wish "that there were a day set apart—a Sunday—as an annual Day of Remembrance between Britons at home and Britons abroad a day
when Britons and British-born, high and low, rich and poor together, might, in their own places of worship—church or chapel or camp—remember one another us members of a family." I would say in reply that in my parish, situated within sight of the Devonshire moorland that be loves, we have something like what he asks for on the first Sunday in each month. When we have prayed for all the members of the Church militant in Prayer-book words, we continue kneeling and sing together the Hymn for Absent Friends, No..595 in "Ancient and Modern" :— " Holy Father, in Thy mercy Hear our anxious prayer, Keep our loved ones, now far absent, 'Neath Thy care."
Why should not this become a more general practice, so that friends abroad might know that on this one Sunday in each month they would be specially remembered in prayer by friends met together in the old parish church at home ?—
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