OBITUARY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 77, 28 September 1942, Page 3

OBITUARY

PREBENDARY CARLILE

LONDON, September 27 The death is announced, at the age of 95, of Prebendary Wilson Carhle. the venerable head of the Church Army. Prebendary Wilson Carlile was born at Brixton, London, and in 1862 went into business, in which he was very successful. He studied for the Church of England and was ordained in 1880. taking up work among the soldiers. He begftn the Church Army movement at Kensington in 1882. During the Great War it did excellent service among the troops, providing among other things hostels and recreation huts. It is doing the same in this war. He waa made a Companion of Honour in 1926 and in the following year, at the age of 80, he tramped through England to raise 1000 men for missionary work at home and abroad. There have been many testimonies to Prebendary Carlile's extraordinary powers arid personality; Lord Baldwin, when Prime Minister, stated that when the history of the 19th century was written the name of Wilson

The late Prebendary Carlile.

Carlile would probably represent the spiritual revolt against the materialism of the industrial system. A former Archbishop of Canterbury, the late Dr. Randall Davidson, always referred to his as "the Archbishop of the Gutter," and once said that he had saved the Church of England from dying of respectability. A branch of the Church Army was formed in New Zealand in 1935, when Prebendary Carlile sent out a party of evangelists and sisters, the head-' quarters being Auckland, with Captain S. R. Banyard as Dominion director. .