THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2665, 22 November 1909, Page 4

THE NEW ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY.

AN INTERESTING PERSONALITY

It seems (says an exchange) that the appointment of Archdeacon AY right to the Archbishopric of Sydney is not altogether acceptable to some of the good folk at Homo. The Archdeacon is still a comparatively young man, a very young man as church dignitaries go, having been born at Oldham in 1862, but it is not on account of liis youth that his selection for this high office is being largely canvassed by the people who take an interest in such matters. His critics admit that he is a good man and a sound scholar, that he is devoted to the cause of real religion and full of practical sagacity, that he understands affairs and is tolerant and courteous. But this does not satisfy them. “Few more surprising ecclesiastical preferments have ever been known,” one of them says, “than the recent elevation of a comparatively unknown working clergyman to an archbishopric—even though it is a colonial appointment.” A comparatively unknown working clergyman! That probably is the cause of the surprise. The Archdeacon was ordained in 1885, and acted as curate for his old college tutor, the present Bishop of Manchester, at Kibworth for a period of three years. In 1888 he went, to Bradford as curate of the parish church, gaining valuable experience of work in a busy town, and in 1893 he became vicar of A 1 version, and two years later vicar of St. George, Leeds. In the latter place lie worked with much energy for nine years, when be was appointed to a vacant canonry at Manchester Cathedral. Here he combined the duties of canon of a busy cathedral and rector of a parish in the heart of a great city, and in addition to his other work ho was entrusted with the* superintendence of the lay readers of the diocese and was made one of the secretaries of the Manchester Church Congress. In all these varied and la-herio'-is duties he showed himself “a •crmbic, quiet, and effective worker,

f/entlo in manner, but prompt and decigentie m ~ %vas only a few sivc in At> • promoted to S-K Stocon, 5b appoint, tho omci, o Ar( . ]lb : s hopr.c of Sydney is 5 C i P nto?eS in New Zealand because his soli "re of work will be so near to oar sphere or because he -belongs 7 u> pioneers of the Evangelical party aro striving to restore the enureh U> the hearts tin- people.