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TEMPLE. FREDERICK, P. D.. ninety-fifth 

 Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England 



and Metropolitan, born Nov. 3d. 1S-1. IK- was 

 educated at Blundell's School, in Tiverton. Devon- 

 shire, and Balliol College. Oxford. He distin- 

 guished himself as a scholar during his com>e at 

 the university, and after taking his degree was 

 made fellow and tutor 

 at Balliol. He su! 

 quently became princi- 

 pal of the Training Col- 

 lege at Kneller Hall, 

 Twickenham, and in 

 1858 was made head 

 master of Rugby, which 

 place he held until 

 1869. His admini>t ra- 

 tion of affairs at Rugby 

 was as able as it was 

 successful, and his ser- 

 mons in the college 

 chapel give him a place 

 among the foremost 

 of English preachers. 

 During the greater part 

 of the period of his 

 headmastership. how- 

 ever, he was considered 

 a heretic by the mass 

 of Churchmen, and was 

 made the target for 

 unlimited theological 

 rancor, the immediate 

 cause of which wa- the 

 publication, in isr.o. , 

 \ s and Reviews." 

 the authors of which 

 were Anglican clergy- 

 men and heads of col- 

 leges. Dr. Temple's 

 contribution to the vol- 

 ume was an essay en- 

 titled "The Education 

 of the World." in which 

 it would puzzle most 

 Churchmen of the pres- 

 ent day to find any- 

 thing heretical. It is 

 a speculation based 

 upon history and the 

 process of spiritual 

 growth, and embodies 

 the substance of world- 

 wide philosophy, its 

 tone being at once rev- 

 erent and scientific. In 

 the minds of many peo- 

 ple Dr. Temple, al- 

 though the author of but a single essay, was held 

 in a certain sense responsible for the whole vol- 

 ume, and he was more than once declared to be 

 guilty of "complicity in disseminating infidel 

 opinions." In 1864 the Synod of Canterbury con- 

 demned the book, and two of its authors were 

 summoned before the Court of Arches. When, 

 in 1869, Dr. Temple was nominated to the see of 

 P^xeter violent opposition to him broke forth. In- 

 dignation meetings were held all over the United 

 Kingdom, and among the many clerical protests 

 against his confirmation were those of eight bish- 

 ops. Mr. Gladstone, then Prime Minister, had 



nominated Dr. Temple to tin- Kxeter bishopric, 

 and Dr. Tail, then Archbishop of Canterbury, 

 nestly besought the chapter to elect the so-called 

 heretic. In time opposition to Bishop Temple 

 subsided, and in 1N73 lie wa- -elect preacher at 

 Oxford, and in ls*4 \v. liamptoi, 



turer. In the opinion of competent or. 



FREDERICK TEMPLE. ARCHBISHOP OK CANTERBURY. 



Bampton Lectures are the greatest of all the lec- 

 ture delivered at Oxford within the past half cen- 

 tury." Their motive, briefly stated. " is to help the 

 scientific man to find religion in science, and the 

 religious man to find science in God." In 1886 

 Bishop Temple was translated from Exeter to Lon- 

 don, and his advancement aroused some echoes of 

 the old-time opposition to his name. But they 

 were comparatively faint, and when he w-as ad- 

 vanced by Lord Salisbury to the Canterbury arch- 

 bishopric', at the close of 1896, the opposition was 

 confined to a few persons, one of whom publicly 

 protested against the consecration during the prog- 



