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...Bloody Mary" was the first female sovereign to perform the ancient ceremony. She did the job thoroughly, crawling the whole length of Westminster Abbey on her knees. Her half-sister, Elizabeth I, introduced a fastidious innovation. She made sure that the yeomen of the royal laundry had washed the paupers' feet thoroughly and doused them with sweet herbs against infection before she herself laid hand or lips to them. By last week, when Elizabeth II (in her first official public appearance since the funeral of her father) performed the traditional Maundy Thursday rites, the paupers' footwashing had been...
Three years ago, Sheen offered a prayer before the U.S. Congress which all Americans might take to heart: "Gentlemen . . . you ought to pray to God now as never before . . . You ought to pray that God, the sovereign King of nations, who once used Assyria as the rod and staff of His anger, will not now use Russia as the instrument of His justice for the liquidation of a Western World that has forgotten God . . . You ought to pray that our beloved country . . . may one day fulfill its glorious and certain vocation of being the secondary cause by which God will...
Last week five black-robed judges (three of them appointed by Prime Minister Malan) unanimously said no. Malan's action was "null and void." Said Chief Justice Albert van de Sandt Centlivres: "To say that the Union of South Africa is not a sovereign state simply because Parliament hasn't the power to amend the Constitution is to state a manifest absurdity . . . It would be surprising . . . to be told that the great and powerful country, the United States, is not sovereign and independent because its Congress cannot pass any law it pleases...
...salvos of mail they have been dropping on the old (1549) masterpiece in the pages of London's Daily Telegraph. Squadron Leader P.J.D. Wood of the R.A.F. touched off the controversy after the death of George VI. While intoning the commemorative service for the late sovereign, wrote Commander Wood to the Telegraph, he had snatched a quick look round at the faces of his airmen, and found them a perfect blank. Wood's conclusion: "Only a student of theology can understand the true meaning of many of our common prayers...
...Excerpt: "We give Thee hearty thanks, for that it hath pleased Thee to deliver this, our sovereign king, George VI, out of the miseries of this sinful world, beseeching Thee that it may please Thee of Thy gracious goodness shortly to accomplish the number of Thine elect, and to hasten Thy kingdom...