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...When Lang was promoted from York to Canterbury in 1928, Temple succeeded him at York. Temple may well succeed him again. Outstanding as a church administrator and theologian as well as a reformer, Dr. Temple a year ago called the famed Malvern Conference to seize for the Church leadership in "ordering the new society." In December he led an official interdenominational commission (TIME, Jan. 5) in a far-to-the-left program for Social Justice & Economic Reconstruction which he called "a conscious and deliberate attempt to cancel the divorce between theology and economics." But York may decline the Primacy...
...work for a few more years," he explained. "But the times are not ordinary. . . . When this war is over great tasks of reconstruction must await the Church as well as the State. Preparation for these tasks must begin now." In emphasizing the need for post-war reconstruction, Dr. Lang clearly implied that his personal choice as a successor is the man who is probably the world's leading exponent of Christian social reconstruction: portly, brilliant, 60-year-old William Temple, Archbishop of York and second-ranking Anglican prelate...
Whoever his successor is, Dr. Lang will almost certainly be the last archbishop of his kind (just as he is the first unmarried Primate since the Reformation). The 20th Century does not breed his type of courtier-bishop. Since he first caught Queen Victoria's eye in 1896 with his tactful eloquence and for being "so human," he has been the friend and confidant of the royal family-except for Edward VIII, who called him a "sanctimonious humbug." He also is strong-willed and not afraid to speak his mind, even went to the unpopular extreme of defending...
When George V was Prince of Wales, Dr. Lang rebuked him for having attended a Roman Catholic service, pointed out that there was no precedent for such an act since James II. "A very good precedent too," snapped the Prince. "No doubt your Royal Highness is familiar with your history," retorted Dr. Lang, "and remembers that the consequences to the King and his family were not so good." (James was driven from his throne after three years, and his luckless heirs, the old Pretender and Bonnie Prince Charlie, lived out their lives in exile...
...Lang even stood up to Queen Victoria. While he was vicar of Portsea, the largest parish in England, with twelve curates under him, she told him a good wife would be more help than any six curates. "If I have a curate I do not like," he replied, "I can sack him. But I couldn't sack a wife." Forty years later his views on sacking a husband cost Victoria's great grandson the throne...