DEATH OF FATHER STANTON

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1721, 11 April 1913, Page 6

DEATH OF FATHER STANTON

-H> A STRIKING PERSONALITY. The death is announced of Father Stanton, of St. Alban's, ITolborn, Loudon. Ho was n striking preacher and a most interesting personality, and his name is well known throughout the Anglican world. The Rev. Arthur Henry Stanton gradu- • nted Bachelor of Arts at Trinity Collckc, , Oxford, in 1862, and was ordained deacon [ the same year and priest in 1861. On lii.i , ordination, he was licensed as assistant , curato of the then newly-formed mission district of St. Alban's, in Baldwin Gardens, a notorious slum quarter; and ho remained- in that position till his death. The Church of St. Alban's. which reached its jubilee in February last, very soon bccaine renowned for advanced cere- : monial, proceeding hand in hand with the j most definite leaching; and the parish ) was the centre of the stormy "ritual troubles" of the 'sixties and 'seventies, i But (says the "Church Standard") Father ] Stanton's fame is not that of a mero , pcreinonialist. His wonderful personality, his freedom from convention, his passionate evangelicalism and "Gospel preaching," , with his deep spirituality, made him for , years perhaps the most striking figure in ( the English Church, and the preacher . who, above nil others, attracted immense and strangely varied congregations. It is j no exaggeration to say that no was known b.v repute and loved by thousands , throughout the Anglican Communion, j who had never oven seen him. It w6uld ( seem that he never thoroughly recovered - his strength after his illness last year. i St. Alban's has known but two vicars in its fifty years—the lato Rev. A. 11. Mack- { nnochie and the present vicar, the Rev. R. A. J. Suckling, who exchanged with < Mr. Mackonochie in 18S2 to relieve-the . tension of a critical moment in tho for- j tunes of the parish. j - J