NEW ARCHBISHOP

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 96, 24 April 1942, Page 5

NEW ARCHBISHOP

DR. TEMPLE ENTHRONED

CALL FOR DEDICATION TO GOD

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, April 23. Dr. William Temple, the new Archbishop of Canterbury, was enthroned today with age-long ceremony in the Cathedral at Canterbury. More than 45 Bishops and 16 Deans attended the service, as well as representatives of the Free Churches. Dr. Temple, in mitre and cope, entered the Cathedral by the great west door, preceded by a long procession of Church dignitaries in bright robes. A fanfare of trumpets sounded as he entered the Cathedral, and also at the completion of the ceremony.' In his address the new Archbishop declared that it was fitting that his enthronement should take place on St. George's Day. St. George, England's patron saint, had been martyred for refusing to obey an -Emperor, when obedience involved denial of his faith in Christ. Dr. Temple called for a fresh dedication of the Church, of the nation, and themselves' to God. The Archbishop said that German victory in Germany's present mood would mean the end of the ecumenical Christian movement and all the hopes connected with it. "It is our duty," he said, "to do our best towards winning the war so that we may keep open the possibility of a Christian civilisation and maintain

the hope of a fellowship pervading all nations under the allegiance of our Lord. The secular movement of the world, he said, was not towards peace or mutual understanding; it was towards fiercer competition and conflict, and war between larger and even larger concentrations of power. If that was all that could be said, the Church could do little but work under the surface, thus morally, if not physically, returning to the catacombs. But the Christian fellowship extended into almost every nation, and bound the citizens together in true unity and mutual love. "This," hi| said, "is the one great ground of hope for the coming days."