THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 959, 2 June 1883, Page 4

THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY.

g v r> !•!'.« X - - On Thursday, March 29, the new Erhaate - of' England was enthroned with great pomp and splendour in CantefburyCathedral. He arrived in the capitil bfhis diocese on the preceding dayl. arid bh his entry into the city was welcomed by a deputation of the Towii Council, which presented him with an address- , The Archbishop made a happy reply, dwelling especially on the fact that he should consider it his duty t$ respert alb sChools of opinion, and that he .should follow* as closely as pos-, Sible ib of Archbishop Tail', ’ Dx. Benson assumes,his high office at a critical jnomerlt. -The power of the Ritualists is on the increase, and they mhtfece -‘the position of the itself)lt "will 1 bei remembered that tjigdask official act of Archbishop, Tart was in tfie ...patare .'.of. 'gn ; EirenilawiHjQf the whplq of his policy was directed j towards increhßlagfthe of the? Church, u and /nuking ,it possible for fivety' shade to remain 1 ''ftere sigßSb th«& ,n§ W£S by no means,disposed to look back with. , unalloyed slrtisfactlomdn the-Public Worship AcfjH which mainly instrumental *Thbdgh the Ritualists have res;qtly Y jjecprne more powerful thap - jthere,.; is a strong party’ in’ headed-by. the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of opposed to .them. Tha> comprehensive .policy,) therefore, of the. ndafrßrimate is likely to be criticised aMfraiste& ’ Dr 'Benson himself is a o_f, -much tact and of courteous manner. At the same time -he has a ssrdng;wiUand ;an ardent temperamentwhich occasionally get the better of his, plSfetdify. Tt‘ remains to be seen' will be able to impose upon the control which the. new situation requires.

. In a, recent issue we {Federal Austra' n Wan) 1 referred at some length to the ‘1 pouring of oil on the troubled waters ” as a source of protection to vessels’ in severe; storms, and endeavored to afford, some" explanation of the phenomenal aoiQg..<d the oil on the stormy billows.. A paper 'recently sent to the Belgian' Academy deals with the same subject,, tuns“ Whenever a liquid mass in motit»n rapidly a free surface, there is developed a growing quantity of potenat the, expense of the kinetic ehergy'bt the mass, and reciprocally to a rypid,. diminutipn of freesurface corresponds always 'an incrjase of kinetic wha|.mqre is nece^ sarytbbe said, occars 1“ P°P e Leos • Encyclical Letter to Oardtnal s :— ** The faithful people should, be fiinhly persuaded, as We have ‘already that the standard of . honesty and utility' is one and the same ; the. national -cause should be kept tfislinctfrbm the aims,' purposes and' dggdst associations.,; that ■ while it is just and lawful for those sufferto. seek their rights by Iftwraf means, it is not allowable to make use of the protection which ciime affords; and Providence allots to the virtoons enjoyment of the fruits of patience but subjects the evibdisposea, after their fruitless labors, to heavy punishments from God and men. .While We thus speak from Our earnest desire for tlwrflief, peace and. happiness have no doubt that you, ’ Obr beloved sen; and your venerable colr . - leagues in united counsels and brotherly j %Bfc^Ur»Wtinne. to keep your faithful ; • people .entirely apart fromthoae who, lad ftwggiib^sdlyihy their passions, think jthey t: serve their country by steeping themselves f In crime, by drawing others into the same and imprinting .a foul Bon their country’s .cause.”