Title
Reverend Eric Cordingly's Handwritten Sermon
Year/Period
1942
Region
SIngapore
Object Type
Technique
Dimension
Object size: Please refer to individual parts
Accession No.
2021-00023
Collection of
Credit Line
Gift of the Cordingly family, on behalf of Reverend Eric Cordingly
Reverend Eric Cordingly was a British army chaplain who was interned in Changi during the fall of Singapore. During his internment, he established St George's Church for a "parish" of up to 800 men. Every day there would be a Celebration of Holy Communion at 8.30 am, followed by evening prayers and Evensong. This handwritten sermon was preached by Cordingly on Trinity XX, or the 20th Sunday after Trinity Sunday, 18 October 1942. Entitled 'Prayers for POWs', the sermon evokes the the churches in Britain and the thought of how many of the churchgoers there would be praying for the POWs, as well as encourages the POWs to live a good life while thanking God that they were still alive.
