【英文读物】Clergymen of the Church of England
38页1、【英文读物】Clergymen of the Church of EnglandI. THE MODERN ENGLISH ARCHBISHOP.The old English archbishop was always a prince in the old times, but the English archbishop is a prince no longer in these latter days. He is still a nobleman of the highest rank,he of Canterbury holding his degree, indeed, above all his peers in Parliament, not of Royal blood, and he of York following his elder brother, with none between them but the temporary occupant of the woolsack. He is still one before whose greatnes
2、s small clerical aspirants veil their eyes, and whose blessing in the minds of pious maidens has in it something almost divine. He is,2 as I have said, a peer of Parliament. Above all things, he should be a gentleman, and,if it were always possible,a gentleman of birth; but he has no longer anything of the position or of the attributes of a prince.And this change has come upon our archbishops quite in latter times; though, of course, we must look back to the old days of Papal supremacy in Englan
3、d for the prince archbishop of the highest class. Such careers as those of Thomas Becket or of Wolsey have not been possible to any clergymen since the days in which the power of the Pope was held to be higher on matters ecclesiastical than the power of the Crown in these realms; but we have had among us prince archbishops to a very late date,archbishops who have been princes not by means of political strength or even by the force of sacerdotal independence, but who have enjoyed their principali
4、ties simply as the results of their high rank, their wealth, their reserve, their inaccessibility, as the result of a certain mystery as to the nature of their duties,and sometimes as the result of personal veneration. For this personal veneration personal3 dignity was as much needed as piety, and was much more necessary than high mental power. An archbishop of fifty years since was very difficult to approach, but when approached was as urbane as a king,who is supposed never to be severe but at
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