The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-01-20
THE NEW ARCHBISHOP.
Stories Told of the Oddities of Dr..
 Temple, Primate of England.


 Temple, Primate of England.
 The Gazette has recently announced the Queens sanction of the election, by the dean and chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, of Dr. Frederick Temple, now Bishop of London, to be Arch bishop of Canterbury--anda very fine, if odd, archbishop Dr. Temple will make.
 The new primate's character was orce we'll summed up as "the personifi- cation of common sense and the utter disregard of public" and this estimate of his strong personality is borne out by his many quaint but thoroughly sensible saying on various occasions. Here are some of them:
 On one occasion pr. Temple was at dinner party. and he took down to dinner a young lady of a rather talka- tive and effusive disposition. who be- gan at the silent bishop with a long dissertation about dreams and their providential import. The lady went on to say: My aunt once saved her life owing to dream that she had which warned her not to take a jour ney on ship which was lost with all on board-don't you think. my lord that dreams are really providential?" A pause, and then the gruff reply; Don't know. I didn't know your aunt?"
 Another time, a clergyman, who is now bishop, went to consult Dr. Tenn pies as to whether he ought to accept the bishopric that had just been of fored to him, finishing his string of doubts as to his fitness for the office with the words: You see, my lord, I am such a bad preacher" You are; I've heard you,!" was the disquieting rejoinder of the Bishop of London. Apropos of this, another bishop subse- quently asked Dr. Temple if he had really made this reply, which was be- ing put down to him, and the bishop said: NO, I didn't say it, but thought it.'
 Dr. Temples gruff manner has some times met It's match. A curate who was shown into his private room saw the bishop sitting by the fire and not taking any notice of his visitor When { the bishop suddenly looked up and | asked: What do you want?" the cu- rate promptly replied: "A chair first. '
 When the bishop was busy seeing a lot of the clergymen In his diocese, he would have them sent in from the an- teroom one by one, just shortly ask ing what each wanted, and then reply ing Yes" Cor more usually "No") and calling out Next" as the discomfited parson retired to make way for a fresh victim.
 A cabby drove Dr. Temple one night to Putnam Palace, and when he was paid the right fare he called out: q say, MT. Bishop, do yer think that if Paul was alive now hed'ave ten thou sand a year and live in a palace?"
 To which sally the bishop grunted: "If Paul were alive now he would live at Lambeth"
 A parson known to the writer was offered a colonial bishopric, and he went to consult pr. Temple about &C., cepting the offer, saying he hardly liked to succeed two such men as s. and N--(naming two men of great distinction). The bishop looked at his visitor and said: "D'ye think they thought they were giants when they 1 first went out there?"
 On another occasion Dr.. Temple of- fered a living to 8 curate in charge in these words: T have much pleasure in offering you the living of -. You have had difficult job to do, and you have done it welll" All these of Dr. Temples clergy who are worth any, thing as men and as parsons have the highest personal regard for him, de- spite his gruff manner, for he is a thoroughly strong, kind and just man Dr. Temple was conducting a confir- mation and the nervous vicar was walking about and arranging all the young candidates when he saw the Bishop beckoning to him with his hand from his chair by the chancel. He at once went to the Bishop, who pulled the vicar's ear, down to his mouth, and: said in a loud, gruff whisper: HDon't fidget-" Utter collapse of the 1 dismayed vicar.
 A choir boy had been told off to light the candles on the altar for a service to be conducted by the Bishop of London, who was already sitting in a stall by the side of the altar. The boy instead of lighting the candles from the front of the altar, went round ! to the side. He had lighted the can- dles on one side, and was then pro- ceeding to squeeze past the Bishop in order to light the other candles. Tenn pie glared at the boy. and ejaculated in quite audible tones: GO away" The boy vanished, and the candles on