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WWII: Calling the Nation to Prayer  (November 2020)

"The first, and most famous, Day of Prayer was held on 26th May 1940, resulting in the rescue of 338,000 British soldiers from the beaches of Dunkirk, but there were seven such days of prayer during the war years..."

A Hymn for Remembrance Sunday  (10 November 2019)

"Today, services of remembrance will be held at war memorials in towns and villages all over the country, each with its list of names of those who died to keep Britain free from tyranny. At many of these services the hymn O God Our Help in Ages Past will be sung. It was written in 1708 by the English clergyman Isaac Watts (1674-1748) ... Watts based his hymn on Psalm 90: ... In August 1941 it was sung at a service aboard HMS Prince of Wales during the conference between Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt which created the Atlantic Charter ... On December 10, 1941, three days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, HMS Prince of Wales was sunk alongside the battlecruiser HMS Repulse by Japanese bombers. A total of 840 sailors were lost: 513 from Repulse and 327 from Prince of Wales..."

Stalag XXA, Toruń, Poland  (11 October 2019) "This year is the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War. My father-in-law, Jock McDonald, was in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders Regiment, of the 51st Highland Division.  The 51st was called up for service in 1939 and sailed for France, landing in Dieppe in January 1940, whence they marched to St Valery-en-Caux..."

National Day of Prayer, 26th May 1940  (March 2014)

"When Britain was close to defeat during the 2nd World War, and [almost] the entire British Army was trapped at Dunkirk, in desperation George 6th called for a National Day of Prayer to be held on 26th May 1940. In a national broadcast he instructed the people of the UK to turn back to God in a spirit of repentance and plead for Divine help. Millions of people across the British Isles flocked into churches praying for deliverance and [the photograph below] shows the extraordinary scene outside Westminster Abbey as people queued for prayer. Two events immediately followed..."

The Scene at Westminster Abbey, 26th May 1940 The National Day of Prayer "The result was the miracle of deliverance at Dunkirk.  When the Nation prays in the spirit of true repentance, miracles happen (2 Chronicles 7:14)."

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