GIFTED LEADER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 46, 24 February 1942, Page 6

GIFTED LEADER

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Commenting upon the appointment of Dr. Temple as Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Wellington (the Rt. Rev. H. St. Barbe Holland), who is a personal friend of the new Archbishop, stated that it was a cause of great congratulation to the Church that it should have; as its leader in its greatest moment in recent centuries one who combined in a rare degree the faculties of intellectual ability and magnetic leadership. "During these years of war," said the Bishop, "Dr. Temple has set out his views as one who is ready to speak fearlessly and to give the Church a leadership not bound by the traditions of the past, but moving forward to the new world with determination that the great Christian values which tlie Church represents could be endowed with, new vigour, and interpreted for the good of mankind. • . "His gift of leadership is largely due to his faculty for friendship, and any assembly in which he took part; the ! sound of his reverberating and-infec-tious laugh would invariably be heard. The quickness of his mind was: revealed to me on one occasion when I asked him how in the midst 'of .a bishop's life he succeeded in reading every theological work pro<duced-by any Christian scholar of importance. He replied, 'You see, I have to go up to London from Manchester on Church business twice a week. The journey takes four hours each way, and: that enables me to tackle two 40Q5page volumes.'" .