PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1687, 1 March 1913, Page 11

PRIMATE OF ALL ENGLAND.

"BEARS HIS GREAT LOAD GALLANTLY." "It is always a sort, of moral seaside to mo to be with him; ho bears his groat load so gallantly," wrote Dr. Paget, tlio late Bishop of Oxford, of tho Archbishop of Canterbury. "'Gallant' is tho only word which describes tho Archbishop's, attitude to the great affairs whicli demand his constant vigilance, and exclude even the scmblanco of leisure," says tliO;"Guardinn," apropos of tho completion oi' >Dr. Randall Davidson's tenth year in the Primacy. "We are well aware that,his words and. actions have not always given complete satisfaction to every variety of opinion in • the Church; but that is no more,than to 6ay that he is Archbishop of Canterbury, and keeps his own conscience. A Primate of All England of whom all men 6peak well must indeed beware.' But those who understand tho extraordinary difficulties of so great u position,. who appreciate the mingled vigour and suavity, tho keen courage, tho quick intuition, and, above all, tho intense earnestness of its present oocupant, will not bo slow to express their sense of thankfulness for a Primate who in times of peculiar difficulty has consistently pursued tho high ideals and encouraged tlio Btrivings to new life without which tho Church of England would 1m a mere eumboror of tlio ground."