In churches and over the air in daily broadcast services throughout the breadth of England and the British Empire go up simple prayers for the protection and guidance of the royal family and those handling the affairs of state of this great nation and its offspring peoples. To a non-Britisher this may seem like vain repetition or even a kind of hero worship, a personal devotion perhaps that in modern times seems to smack a bit of overtraditionalism. This is looking at it from a surface, critical point of view.
But if one looks deeper, one finds that in these heartfelt, constantly uttered prayers is great power, is steady, patient, expectant supplication for God's tender mercy, protection, and wise guidance to rest upon the government of these peoples. Emphasis in the hearts of all those praying is on God, not on the persons—emphasis that God's divine government be seen and established, that those in high places be divinely protected in the doing of their duties. These duties, in the minds of those praying, are concerned with the bringing about of the orderly unfoldment of good, the reign of God's government.
In spite of possible human mistakes, human pride, latent false desire for personal or national power and prestige, errors in judgment or such frailties, the reaching for God's hand to guide it in its affairs of state gives any people power for good, sure correction, vision, balance, a sense of spiritual security, a state of consciousness to be admired and respected, not underestimated.
