WELLINGTON'S BISHOP-ELECT.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1113, 28 April 1911, Page 5

WELLINGTON'S BISHOP-ELECT.

AN ENGLISH APPRECIATION. An English correspondent of the "Guardian," referring to the election of the Her. T. H, Sprott to. the Angucau Bishopric of Wellington, writes:-!he Rev. T. H. Sprott, M.A., T.C.D., Hebrew, Prizeninn 1877-8, who, as reported -by j cable, has been elected Bishop of Wellington, is a thinker and a preacher, a.' man deeply interested in social questions aiid vigorous in presenting the moral 1 claims of Christianity. Withal ho has the 4 Irish gift of humour and a great power I of making friends. His termons, when ho was an assistant-curato at M. Joiins. j Waterloo Road, in the early 'eighties, had already attracted attention by their j depth and power, a Lenten course on the i Book of Job being especially remembered, i A scries of short papers on the Evidences of Christianity, contributed to the Par-1 ish. Magazine," showed the bent of lufcj mind and his power of dealing with great! subjects. Recently (1909), under pressure, from friends, he published through the I Cambridge University Press a small but valuable work entitled "Modern, Study of the Old Testament and Inspiration, which was noticed in "The Guardian ofl February 25, 1910.