Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-04
DIR. BENSON.
The Neic -lrchJiyhoQ Of Canterbury.
Nav York Times

1 DIX. BENSON.
The Neic -irchJiyaop If Canterbury.
New York Timesi
The newly nominated archbishop Of
Canterbury, Dr.. Edward White Benson, he:
been Il notable man ever since he went ur
to Cambridge in 184S, where he was grad.
, 81 ed 10 senior chancellors medalist in the
yeay 1852. Ike vas scholar and Fellow
of Trinity college, and, after taking his
degree, at once accepted, on the invitation
of DR.. Goulburn, the post of assistant
master of Rugby school. The six years
| passed at Rugby were years of
preparation for his future work. His
position as Instructor of the sivth form
gave him the opportunity of attracting to
himself large circle of pupils, and when
he was elected in 1859 to be head master
of Wellington college, and to build up a
great public school from the very founda-
ton, it was from the Rugby men whom he
had instructed that he was able to draw the
loyal fellow workers who largely contrib
uted to his magnificent success in that
difficult work. Few men were better fit
ted than Mr.. Benson to superintend from
the least detail of material building to
the most delicate culture of mind and soul
the whole growth of that complex struc-
ture, an English public school, The name
and character of the Duke of Wellington
gave him that which his nature craved-
tradition, an association, memory-to
serve as an inspiring motive, and during
the fifteen years that he was in this posi-
ton, tailoring often in most salutary
trouble, yet with ever increasing happi-
ness" school buildings, chapel, library.
masters houses, and all the varied appI
ances for work and recreation which bow
life IN England demands, grew up contin
uously around him.
From this position, in which he was
thoroughly at home, and in which he was
shaping the newest educational and spirit
ual life in Englad, he was taken by Bishop
Wordsworth to serve as the chancellor of
t:AeQ,G cath. dra; where the great pur-
poso Of his life was to prove that the mem
orie, which, budded when Norman strove
With Saxon, before Saxon had done his
strife with Btiton, still carried in them the
poteacy and the power of life He had
written about the cathedral system, and
was an enthusiast for its modern develop
ment before he was asked to become
the chancellor of Lincoln and
convert his theories into facts. The born
ecclesiastic stood out here as strongly az
the live schoolmaster had been manifested
at wellington college From his earliest
childhood the services of the church had
been to him both delight and an aspira
ton, and every column, cornice, sculp-
tured stone, or frieze made the most beau
tiful church in Europe to him perpetual
sursum corda. Working in this spirit of
worship and conservation. he took Lincoln
by storm. He caught the divine image in
every man, took a leading part in every
social movement that,Yas set on foot drew
all classes to him, made ibis strength felt
in the pulpit of the cathedral, and revived
the ancient theological schools of Lincoln
and made them throb with life.
His fame went through all England as
one of the brightest and most quickened
men of the day, and when the prime min
lister was in search for a. competent person
to organize the new ndiocese of Truro.
which was carved out7os the ancient sea
of Exeter, and it wasv felt that success in
this enterprise must be certain beyond the
shadow OF q douot, Chancellor Benson was
chosen as the man whoss insight and sa-
gacity and administrative capacity could
create prosperous diocese even in desc
late Cornwall. He became Bishop of Truro
in 1877, and has put life into that
part of England which throbs and beats in
every part of the diocese. The Truro cathe
dral is. still in process of building, but
from this center during the last five years
he has been developing model diocese of
tae Eogilsh church. A High Churchman,
q thoroughly trained ecclesiastic. in SYM
patty ~lth his age, intensely in earnest in
all that belongs to vital Christianity. in
the prime of life, and endowed not more
with ability to inspire others with his
plans than to realize them in his own heart
and mind, he brings to the position of
archbishop of Canterbury some of the best
and rarest qualities that are to be found in
any English scclesiastic of the day.