The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-24
THE ARCHBISHOP or CANTER.
B('RI
The Life. Character and Attachments Of
the late Dr. Temple.

In the death Of DR.. Temple. Archbishop
OF Canterbury the world loses one OF it's
great personalities This only those can
understand who. like myself knew Temple
| al Rugby, saw him condemned on all sides
as hereto when he wrote the first article
| IN the notorious Essays and Reviews
witnessed his sudden elevation To the epis-
copate when he was made Bishop Of Exeter.
watched his increasing popularity as Bishop
! OF London. and then In these last few years
reverenced him a. the dignfed Archbishop
who cast such halo Of grandeur around
the throne Of Canterbury. and who formed
such pathetic figure in the recent corona
ton OF the King.
DIR. Temple was one OF the most eminent
scholars in the Church. At Oxford he took q
double first that is first -cass in classics
and hrst-rlass in ira hematics. He sue
ceeded TAFT at Rugby and won the respect
OF every boy. Temples a brute" the
boys used to say. but he Is a kind brute.
His marked provincialism. learned, 1t is
believed, from the nurse who had charge OF
him when his parents were in India often
excited the risibility Of the sixth form. On
one occasion the great master took your
urchin aside and said, Now WARN you,
which the delinquent misint srpreted as
IN warm you OF thrash you. "Oh. sir,
Dr. Arnold never beat US DIR. T,m 10
replied. Il lid not say warm but said
| WARM"
Still the distinguished clergyman was an
eloquent man. I have often hoard him
preach with great power and great spirit
uali,y. He was always c.assed among
the Evanse!icals or Low Churchmen. But
as Archbishop he gave many deciSions
favorable to the sacerdotal party, TO the
surprise of many. He owed his preferment,
it is said. entirely to the influence OF Queen
Victoria. This seems probable, because
| neither Mr.. Gladstone nor Lord Salisbury
would have selected any one but High
| Churchman for the post OF Archbishop.
His appointment to Canterbury took the
ecclesiastical world by surprise. But Dr.
Temple completely overshadowed his High
Church predecessor DR.. Benson He fire.
quently spoke from his seat In the House
OF Lords. when his utterances commanded
the profoundest respect Of every peer, from
the Lord Chancellor on the wool sack TO
the youngest Baron. And why not' Tenn
Pile, a. master Of Rugby. had been pres
ence feared by many Of the members Of
the House Of Lords. Besides this there was
not a university man present who did not
know that he had taken the highest degree
possible at Oxford.
As a very strong advocate of total absti
hence DR.. Temple gained much popularity
outside the limits Of his own Church. He
was no temperance man who drank wine
Win MS dinner ana discouraged the saloons,
ne was water drinker by conVictioh' ana
his magnificent physique and his great
mental power were the finest advertise
meht the tota' abstalhers ever mad
LIT Temple was a man oil deep personal
piety' You could not be IN ms presence
without feeling 1t. He never INDUCED In
cant, but his reverence for divine things
was profound, and he never left you in any
doubt a. 10 the earnestness OF his convic-
tions and the reality OF his belief. At this
distance Of time no clerical bigot has been
able to find the least suspicion Of heresy
in the first essay of the volume called -Es-
says and Reviews which emanatcd from
the pen OF the deceased prelate.
II may be truly said that at the recent
coronation Archbishop Temple stood a. the
central figure when he faced that great
assembly. standing at the high altar at
| King Edward and his Queen kneit TO re-
ceive the benediction Of the Church. As the
venerable and gifted succs,s- or Of Augustine.
Stigand and Lanfranc knelt to do obeisance
to the King there was scarcely dry eve
in the whole Abbey when King Edward
gently lifted the AGED Archbishop from
his knees II |. an incident in the corona
ton Of Edward VII which will probably
srnn,v Tho moot and the artist as we,, "a the
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