Hymns in Bomb-Torn Abbey
A BIG congregation attended morning service in bombed Westminster Abbey yesterday. An altar was erected in the nave before the screen, the gates of which were closed to shut off the choir and sanctuary where the raid damage was wrought a week ago.
There was no choir, but the responses and hymns sounded well.
The Ven. F. L. Donaldson, Archdeacon of the Abbey, who preached, spoke in sad tones of the damage, but drew a moral from it.
“This beautiful church was erected,” he said, “not only as a place for prayers to be said in but as a symbol in stone and wood and loveliness of the beauty of God, and that symbol exists yet.
“The damage which is done is material damage only.”
(Bradford Observer, 19th May 1941)
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