. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. tter became Deanof Carlisle, first came into general notice inconnection with the volume once famous underthe title of Essays and Reviews. Dr. Templesessay was entitled The Education of theWorld, and propounded a view of the Bibleand of Gods dealings with the people ofIsrael which is now, I suppose, universally ac-cepted. Forty years ago, however, it was notonly unfamiliar, but, as many devout peoplehonestly believed, heterodox ; and the volumein which it appeared had other essays whicheven the most advanced scholars regarded withapprehension, if not
. Reminiscences of bishops and archbishops. tter became Deanof Carlisle, first came into general notice inconnection with the volume once famous underthe title of Essays and Reviews. Dr. Templesessay was entitled The Education of theWorld, and propounded a view of the Bibleand of Gods dealings with the people ofIsrael which is now, I suppose, universally ac-cepted. Forty years ago, however, it was notonly unfamiliar, but, as many devout peoplehonestly believed, heterodox ; and the volumein which it appeared had other essays whicheven the most advanced scholars regarded withapprehension, if not with positive disfavour. When, therefore, Dr. Temple was nominatedfor the see of Exeter, especially as it was insuccession to a bishop (Philpotts) of mostaggressive conservatism, there was a fierce out-cry of dissent from all quarters of the Church;and even a menace of resistance to his confirm- The Most Reverend Doctor Frederick Temple,Archbishop of Canterbury. From a photograph reproduced by permission of theLondon Stereoscopic IRecoIIecttons ot Hrcbbisbop Uemple 219 ation in Bow Church, which provoked generalalarm. But Dr. Temple made a good Bishop ofExeter; and, when Tait was promoted fromLondon to the primacy, was obviously the fit-test man to succeed him. When I came toknow him, Benson was Archbishop of Canter-bury, and Temple his suffragan in the see ofLondon; but it was obvious enough that Ben-son had not forgotten the days when he was amaster at Rugby, and Temple, as head master,had been his chief. Indeed, I do not recallanything more charming than the affectionatedeference of the archbishop to his venerablejunior. It was in every way appropriate, there-fore, that when Benson was so suddenly cutoff, Temple should succeed him; and it was asArchbishop of Canterbury, in 1897, that I firstcame to know him intimately. I had been inSouthern Europe during that winter, and theArchbishop of Canterbury, learning that I wasto be in England some weeks before the dateat
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