THE NEW ARCHBISHOP.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 395, 2 January 1909, Page 13

THE NEW ARCHBISHOP.

INTERESTING SPEECH ON HIS CALL TO YORK. . The: Archbishop-Designate of York (Dr. Lang, Bishop ofi Stepney), had an enthusias-tiOijrecbptionVai.'^he.'Pebplels-iP^^ London, -on .November .19, whore he ad,dresMd,a . ineetirig'} under .the auspices;!of ; thii' Society. of,, the. Gospel;/■ '"I have ■ been reading of late, 11 ho said, : ;!-'thosei.;,.extraqrdiTiary^ingenious,: romances' -irhi<ih - the' .'•neirspap&i' ; iteerilwpsirmg;Jaroundumy.'lifer-; - anecdote's i ftiid; • remMkawoV 1 , -laughter.) more stimulating and-.moving,, thousand, • letters:.''from myfriends vjii; every: part; of ,: "They /havo ; i mads:'me fed that tho real man who quite .unaxpecfcedlyi arifr. most ; overwhelmingly, inwhat are called ; .tho :days of his yontli, has received a , call,- and the man painfully con- 1 scions of his ;sins and shortobmings, aiid of' his manifold; failures;< I, cannot; do:anything less than throw myself'upon the mercy of God,: believing; that He has been pleased to call so will :Ho; bo. pleased, to.pardon and enable. l • ■ Continuing, Dr. Lang asked tho people of ■ th6;.;East^ : 'Bnd : him not as tho shopman;of even ;:with I! the kindly Aspiration: of memory, but as the real,man, ho; had: described; ■ ■ Their.;real kindnoss to him would be tO'pray 'that this -sin- ' ful man, called by God, so young, so inexperienced, might not wholly fail,, but fulfil :whatGod < might.: liavoun. mind •in calling him to; the great and; ancient work on whicn ho was about, .to; ent-er. -Speaking of ; tlie' missionary' churfih in :the wider world, the Bishop remarked, "How httlo did I think, when, I said.l. could not/go to.Montreal, that, a fewdays this wholly unexpected call to the Arohbishoprio of Yor\ would comol"