MELANESIAN MISSION.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1409, 9 April 1912, Page 4

MELANESIAN MISSION.

THE NEW BISHOP.

Referring to the appointment of the Rev, Cecil John M'ood, M.A., Head of St. Mary's Clergy House, Wimbledon, to succecd Bishop Cecil Wilson as Bishop of Melanesia, tho "Church Times" (London) states:—Bishop Wilson's resignation was deeply deplored both in tho diocese and among its friends and supporters 'at Home, but it had comc to be seen that the circumstances of tho work were- now such that it was almost essential that tho diocesan should be unmarried if lie was to cope successfully with the difficulties of the See. There has been considerable delay in making tho appointment, and it was stated at the Inst annual meeting that the selectors would take tho greatest caro to appoint one who was thoroughly equipped for taking full advantage of the great possibilities now opening up in the diocese. The Rev. C. J. Wood is the son of Mr. Charles Wood, barrister-at-law, Into legal adviser to the Board of Agriculture. He was educated at St. Paul's School, London, being a Foundation Scholar. He became a Foundation Scholar at Petorhousc, Cambridge, and graduated in the Classical Tripos, Second Class. Ho was ordained'in ISO 7by Archbishop Templo to tho curacy of High Halden, Kent. Thcnco he went to London and held curacies at Maryleboue Parish Church under tho present Dean of Carlisle, and at St. Andrew's, Betlinal Green. In 190G he .was appointed Principal of tho Wimbledon Clergy House, there being a staff of ten clergy under the Rov. J. Allen Bell, fie is a member of the Southwark Diocesan Conference. At Marylebono ho sat as a church school manager, and at Bethnal Green as a council school manager. In the latter parish ho was a Poor Law Guardian, and worked on the Statutory Distress Committee in connection with tho unemployed.