TO HIS MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY GEORGE V., King of Great Britain and Ireland, Defender of the Faith, etc.
May it Please Your Majesty,—
We, the Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland, desire to send from our annual meeting a renewed expression of our loyalty to your Majesty’s person and throne, and of our earnest wishes for the prosperity of your Majesty’s reign.
We would also express our deepest sympathy with your Majesty in the inevitable anxiety and strain which your Majesty must feel in connection with the present terrible War in which our country and Allies are strenuously but hopefully engaged, and we trust that your Majesty and counsellors may be led, under God’s guidance, to adopt such effective measures as will bring the conflict to a speedy and successful termination, in the interests of the cause of truth and righteousness. It is our sincere prayer that the present solemn events may, by God’s grace, produce a revived impression of His authority as set forth in the Bible, upon the minds of all, high and low, in the realm, and that your Majesty may be privileged, during the days to come, to reign over a kingdom in which sobriety, repentance, faith in Jesus Christ, Sabbath-keeping and self-denying godliness, shall be the outstanding characteristics of society.
We conclude by expressing our heartfelt desire that the divine blessing may rest upon your Majesty, Queen Mary, and Royal Family, and that your Majesty and Royal House may be enabled, during these days of great responsibility and stress, to fulfil the obligations of your high station in a manner that shall be for the glory of God and the good of the nation.”