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The Opening Service of the Lambeth Conference

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From the Cathedral Church of Christ, Canterbury.
Every ten years the Archbishops and Bishops of the Anglican Communion come from all over the world to attend the Lambeth Conference. This afternoon, together with the invited representatives of other Christian Churches, they are received by the Archbishop of Canterbury and join in Evensong in the great Cathedral, the Mother Church of English Christendom.

Preces
Psalm 98
First Lesson: Isaiah 35
Magnificat (Murrell in E)
Second Lesson: St. John 15. w. 1-8
Nunc dimittis (Murrell in E)
Creed: Lesser Litany
The Lord's Prayer
Versicles and Responses
Collects
Anthem: Come Holy Ghost, the maker (C. T. Davie)
Address by the Archbishop of Canterbury
O thou who earnest from above (A. and M. 698)
Prayers
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty (E.H. 536)
Blessing
The Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music
The scene described by Richard Dimbleby.

Contributors

Speaker:
The Archbishop of Canterbury [Geoffrey Fisher]
Organist:
Sidney S. Campbell
Trumpeters:
The Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music
Commentator:
Richard Dimbleby

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