NEW PRIMATE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 3

NEW PRIMATE

DR. TEMPLE ENTHRONED AT CANTERBURY ON ST. GEORGE’S DAY. TIME-HONOURED CEREMONY. LONDON. April 23. The new Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Temple, was enthroned today in Canterbury Cathedral, with time-hon-oured ceremony. HOPE FOR COMING DAYS EXTENSION OF CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. (Received This Day, 9.50 a.m.) LONDON, April 23. Speaking at his enthronement in Canterbury Cathedral, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: “Germany’s present mood would mean the end of the ecumenical Christian movement and of all hopes connected therewith. It is our duty to do our best towards winning the war. that we may keep open the possibility of Christian civilisation and mantain the hope of fellowship pervading all nations under allegiance to Our Lord.”

The secular movement of the world, Dr. Temple said, was not towards peace or mutual understanding. It was towards fiercer competition, conflict, and war between larger and ever larger concentrations of power. If that was all that could be said, the church could do little but work under the surface, thus morally if not physically returning to the catacombs. “But,” he concluded, “Christian fellowship extends into almost every nation and binds citizens together in true unity and mutual love. This is the one great ground of hope for coming days.”

DR. TEMPLE’S PLEA DEDICATION OF CHURCH & NATION. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, April 22. The Archbishop of Canterbury will be enthroned in Canterbury Cathedral tomorrow. In a letter to “The Times,” the Archbishop recalls that tomorrow is St. George’s Day, and asks the British people to “join in an act of dedication of ourselves, the nation, and the Church, to God,” and also to renew the dedication in churches on Sunday. The Church of England council on foreign relations states that an admirable feature at the coming enthronement of Doctor Temple will be the presence of all foreign clergy representing the various churches in Europe, so symbolising the solidarity of true Christian nationalities even in war time and their opposition to the swastika.

“Among those invited,” the council says, “are not only Archbishop Germanos and representatives of the Russian, Greek, Rumanian, and othei’ Orthodox Churches, and the Armenian Church, but representatives also of the Dutch, Swiss, French, Polish, Czech, and Calvinistic Churches and the Norwegian, Danish, German, Finnish, and Lutheran Churches.

“It will be noted that among the. Lutherans invited is Pastor Hilderbrandt, who was Pastor Niemoller’s assistant at Dahlem and who, since his escape from Germany, has never ceased to protest against the violence done to liberty, conscience and human rights by the Nazi regime.”