CHURCH LEADERS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 275, 3 November 1933, Page 7

CHURCH LEADERS

IMPLICIT GUIDANCE LACKING STIRRING CALL TO CHURCHMEN PROTEST BY DEAN SHEPPARD By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright, LONDON, November 1. The Very Rev. Dean 11. R. L. Sheppard, D.D., issued a stirring call to the Anglican community for 10,000 churchmen who were willing to walk with him to Lambeth Place when the archbishops and bishops of the Empire meet next, in order that “we may say in respect and passion how deeply we feel their lack of implicit guidance.’’ Mr Sheppard adds that his protest “is against the constant injunction to be patient. Church people will remain crippled in face of the world’s need until a leader arises who can tell us what are the causes that must be fought for to the death, and what are the mere trimmings of religion.’’ Dr. Sheppard was educated at Cambridge University. He wns deputy-priest-in-ordinary to King Edward VII. and to King George V. from 1107 to '.909, and was extra private chaplain to the Archbishop of York in 1911. He was later priest in charge of St, Mary’s, Bourdon street, London, and Grosvenor Chapel. He, was temporary chaplain in Franco in .1914 and vicar of St. Martin-m-tbr-Fieids from 1914 to 1927. From 11f.9 to 1931 he was Denn of Canterbury, while from 1912 to .1929 he was honorary chaplaio to His Majesty tie King. In 1921 ho was proc'tor of the Diocese of London. He also held the position of lecturer in pastoral theology at Cambridge in 1921 and was lecturer at St. Martin-in-the-Fields in 1931. Dr. Sheppard has also published a number of books.