Friendship, Worship, Work Pt. 1

Ponder the friendship, worship and work of E.W Benson and grow in grace. I did. I’ve drawn shade from his tree (family tree) all my life. As a churchman I admit the fruit hasn’t fallen far from the tree. Complex, a man of parts, urbane but above all a disciple of Christ and friend to all.

" His penetration of character was justly con- sidered remarkable, but his power of outsight came from his power of insight, and this insight from his piercing self-sight. His skill in under standing others came from his untiring efforts to understand himself."

FRIENDSHIP. 1 Thess. iv. 9, 10. — ^As touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia : but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more.

A friend invited him for an...

INTRODUCTION to KILDARE CATHEDRAL

So, it was.announced in the summer of 1896 that Archbishop Benson had consented to pay a short visit to Ireland, and to preach in St. Patrick s Cathedral, Dublin, the liveliest interest was felt all over the country. THE visit of an English Archbishop to a sister Church of the Anglican communion is an event that can happen but seldom.

Great positions in State and Church demand the expenditure of personal strength on the part of their occupants ; and the rare moments of leisure that are possible for an official in high station are naturally devoted to the recruiting of overtaxed powers in some quiet resting-place where the intrusion of business is not to be feared. The duties of the Primate of All England are so in cessant and so weighty, his engagements are so numerous, that it would be out of the question that holidays should often be spent in the work of visiting other churches even of his own communion.

Nonetheless the Archbishop sorted it all and made

time to accept an invitation from a friend.

No one could have conceived that we would still

speak of his visit to Ireland today.

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