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KING EDWARD VII.


But, above all, he inculcated the paramount importance of religious instruction and the study of the Scriptures: for he was "a regular church-goer, and a firm believer in the value of a sound moral training." The Church Army and the Salvation Army met with equal encouragement from him, and addressing the representatives of the Convocation of Canterbury on March 1st last, he said:

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The strength of the Church is a bulwark to all that we hold dear in family life. The standard of morals which it enjoins exerts an elevating and vivifying influence on all classes, and the teaching it imparts to the young is of inestimable value in the formation of character.

Many years before he had assured the Bible Society:

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