The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-21
Soys Lofty Church Office
Demands Someone Younger
Reveals Decision to Convection
Of the Province Of Canterbury

Preparation Of these tasks
must begin now. 1t is clear the
preparation must be the work of
those who will have the respon-
sibility of undertaking the tasks.
"For myself, after a lapse OF
a few years, ! cannot hope to re-
tain even such q measure of Wig
or as I may have now. There is
an inevitable temptation to say
of schemes and plans of Church
re form and reconstruction.
They cannot come in my time
1t is not therefore TO- me to give
them careful responsible consid-
Grafton This cannot be right.
IT'S MY DUTY
"Thus ! deem II my duty to
hand over my charge to someone
younger in years and more Wig
orous in mind and spirit, who
will be better able to prepare
now for postwar plans because
he may expect to have a leading
place in the endeavor to carry
them out"
Thus the Archbishop was fol-
lowing the example of his i'm
mediate predecessor, r a n dali
Thomas Davidson. who in 1928
at the age of 80 became the first
Archbishop of Canterbury to re-
sign since Augustine I held the
office 1871 centuries ago.
DR.. Lang assured the Convo-
cation his health was excellent
but said his duties increasingly
fatigued him.
He has been an Archbishop OF
the Church of England since
1910, when he became Arch
bishop of York.
IMPRESSED VICTORIA
Early in his career his abilities
as a parish priest impressed
Queen Victoria, who appointed
him an honory chaplain. Later
he became one of her favorite
preachers.
It was said that on one occas-
ion the Queen asked him why he
did not get married, to which he
replied: IF I have curate who
doesn't suit me, can change
him for another, but I couldn't
do that with a wife"
Though he remained a bache-
lor, he often gave advice to mar
ried persons.
Once he told an audience of
women: Infinite patience is
needed in dealing with husbands.
They may be poor things but
they are your own and you've
got to make the best of them"
WAS ACTIVE
AS q primate. DR.. Lang has
taken a conspicuous part in state
as well as church affairs. He Of
ficiated at the weddings of the
Dukes of Gloucester and Kent.
brothers of the King; at the sill
yer Jubilee service of King
George v in st. Paul's cathedral
In 1885, and at the latter's fun
eral.
. After the abdication of Ed
ward VIII, he made a broadcast
which provoked much criticism.
In that broadcast, on Dec. 10,
1896, he said it was strange
and sad" that Edward should
have disappointed hopes so high
and abandoned a trust so great"
Even more strange and sad
1t is" he went on, that he
should have sought his happiness
in a manner inconsistent with
the Christian principles of mar
riage, and within q social circle
whose standards and ways of life
are alien to all the best instincts
and traditions of his people,"
CROWNED KING
This castigatioE drew consid.
cradle comment and the subject
was aired on the floor of the
House Of Commons, where one
outspoken member; Independent
Laborite Jock McGovern, de-
clared bishops should "get out
and deal with unemployment in
stead of kicking q man when he's
down."
The Archbishop crowned the
present king on May IL, 1897,
in WeStminster Ahhev