THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11872, 25 January 1902, Page 4 (Supplement)

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

Axotheh birthday of the moment is that 06 the Archbishop of Canterbury, -.who entered upon his eightieth year a few days ago.j He. is the only occupant-of the chair of St,.! Augustine for over- a hundred years, with' -v. the° exception of ArchlnJiop Sumner, I be* lieve, who has attained to such an age. ) ~, Archbishop Temple's stem boyhood and early manhood probably had the effect of J . hardening his natural characteristics, and it i , is to this also that he himself attributes! j,.} his marvellous capacity for hard work. Hoi , has been known to speak in one day at four* ristinct meetings, to attend the sittings of . two Select Committees of the House oil .<■ Lords, and to transact the whole of his: r , voluminous correspondence! No man who, did not possess the finest of constitutions; could work as Archbishop Temple has don® every day of his long and useful life. _ j t Few -men had such a struggle to gain sj, footing as Dr.. Temple. He is the son of. ail \ colonial Governor, who died poor—so poor,/J that the boy is said to have been driven to clear the fields of stones and birds in order to provide himself with pocket-money. He., \ won his way from a West Country grammar < school to Oxford by means of hardly-won scholarships, and while there he worked like ||||| the proverbial nigger. " I never cost anyone a penny at Oxford," he once said, and there is abundant evidence to show that hiS; .. economical method of living was seventy} itself. He got up at dawri to avoid paying l , for artificial light at the other end of thej;f|| dav, and he lived 011 his commons and hall.l. A' double first class and the usual Ballioli , fellowship for the first time rendered him, . independent, and from that, by sheer hard . work and force of character, lie forced his .. way to Canterbury via Rugby and Lambeth*, , The Archbishop's splendid struggle to suc- - -cess is encouragement -in itself to the humblest among us.—Free Lance. _