PREBENDARY CARLILE
Successor Appointed
Advice has been received by the Church Army authorities in New Zealand that the Rev.. Hubert H. Teacher, rector, of Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, has been appointed to succeed the late Prebendary Carlile as general secretary of the Church Prebendary Wilson Carlile was born in Brixton, London. After a business career of 18. years, he studied for the (ministry, and was ordained iu the Church of England in 1880, He began his work among soldiers, and instituted the Church Army movement in Kensington in 1882. ' Just as in the present war, the Church Army did great work among the soldiers, providing hostels and recreation huts. He was made a Companion of Honour in 1926. In 1927 he tramped through England to raise 1600 men for missionary work at home and abroad. He was then 80 years of age. . Some remarkable tributes have been paid to his work. The late Archbishop ot Canterbury, Dr. Randhll, once called him “Archbishop of the Gutter,” and said he had saved the Church of England from dying of respectability.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 3, 29 September 1942, Page 4
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176PREBENDARY CARLILE Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 3, 29 September 1942, Page 4
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