BISHOP OF LONDON.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 15 June 1926, Page 7

BISHOP OF LONDON.

CxtUiSADE. TO AL ST R,ALA,Si A. ADDRESS AT ST. PAUL’S It hais .been known for some time that title Bishop c-i Loudon iw-asi to visit Aineiuicia. 'There ate ruano.u.iai now, however, that he will -be going to. Australia and New Zealand as welil. tspealung m St. Pauli' s Cathedral! it,o a congregation at nearly a, Thousand Loudon clergymen, why. bad assembled to- coinnmemo-r----(iite the 25th year oil his episcopate, die Lishop .said-: ■‘l am unueiluaking this long journey /ouiid the world ac> the only thing 1 ran do. to further .the. .good cause. It rs not, therefore, .a ‘joy-ride’ round the vomki, ia.nd r l 'am not taking'.if tor the leuefit of my health.” At till© same .service he delivered an address on “The Wo-nid Cali to the i ihurch. ’ ’ He spoke first of his .trials, ms efforts, ana achievements in the port, -and then, with -aid .the enthusiasm rf la younger man, he turned to his plans jand ambitious for .the future. ‘Let me isa.y what complete surprise it was to me 25 yeans .ago when 1 was .isked to. be Bishop of London,” ho sMd. “I Iliad written to the. Prime Minister of the day, for the first time •n my file, ashing, as ta. Suffragan Bishop, 'that Bishop Talbot might be fi-ent to be o-ur head. In fact, it was oat until 1 had consulted two wise auen, the present Archbishop of Canterbury, and the then Archbishop Temple, and was- urged by them to. respond to -the call, that 1 saw my way to .accept .so weighty a post. ’ ’ On the maim. points of this policy he had no douibt he would .act in the same way if he had his time oyer .again. He had .always, tried to. -show how far more sacramental evangelllicaiis were -in tlieii teaching than many people -supposed; how careful was their training oil their comfi-rmation candidates, 'and how -reiv-ar-ent and -heanty were their iservices. He had incurred many blows in (Standing by the Anglo-Cla,th,olios, and trying to distinguish between the- -great -body oif those who were absolutely toy all to the Church of ‘England, -and the very small body of Rioimla-nisers who brought discredit on the whole party; -and while be- had .again and again opposed ©yen His best personal friend® to- the face when an endeavour had been made to Whittle -aw,ay the miracles, and undermine what -seemed to. him. the .original Gospel, no one was more grateful than he to see those b rave, and Tearless critics who had; tliown flood's of new .Might upon .both, the Olid and the. New Testament. i.n the iseoond /place lie. had tried to keep to the- fore the. mission aspect of the Gospel. He believed that there was a. great danger ql a.n ancient, and especia'lil-y an established Church settling down in,to- a- condition oif humdrum respectability. . As to tlhe future he aisfcedi what response they were, going ,tO miia-ke to the world mill to- the- Church. It was dear, lie. -said, that they could not do their duty to London. unlesis. they were doiiy it to- the. whole, world. He had read through .all the lni-s.vionuu'y reports and mentioned the -call firorn India, Africa,, the 1 Fair Ehist, and the Moslem world. The masis effect- was overwhelming. He -stated that with 40 vacant ouracieis in: London, to be asked to find 600 new workers at once, -and a quarter of a,-million, -more, .a year to keep the work from- going back was at first simply paralysing, and lie wanted the cliiooei.se to face -it with. him. Let them: aim -at definitely sending from 25 to. 50 men .ancl women from this diocese m their quota, to the groat army which was to conivert the -world. “The definite challenge,” lie Said, “which the religion of Mohammed makes to- the religion of Christ, especially in Africa, and the fact that we hiave left -one woman in- Trans-Jo rdian-m to hold back in that -region the whole forces of Islam, linger in my mfimd. ’