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Commerce and Conservation. "In international trade a genuine interchange of materially needed commodities must take the place of a struggle for so-called favorable balance. . . . We must recover reverence for the earth and its resources, treating it no longer as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited, but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend."
Labor. "The true status of man independent of economic profits must find expression in the managerial framework of industry; the rights of labor must be recognized as in principle equal to those of capital in the control of industry.. . ."
Church's Function. "The Church has the duty and the right to speak, not only to its members but to the world, concerning the true principles of human life. . . . The Church, as we know it, does not. . .."
Church Finances. "Christians, clergy and laity alike, cannot take part in this work unless they are prepared to advocate complete reorganization of the internal financial life of the Church."
Form of Worship. "This must be so directed and conducted that its relevance to life and to men's actual needs is evident. . . ."
Christian Service. "The whole congregation, habitually worshiping together, should regularly meet to plan and carry out some common enterprise for the general good; if there are social evils in a locality, such as bad housing or malnutrition, let them consider how evil can be remedied. . . ."
To the conferees at Malvern, and more & more to the world, it seemed as if, when the walls fell, the stone rolled away from the sepulchre and the Body which was missing had been found again.
The Man. Dr. Garbett did not take part in the Malvern Conference. But through his sponsorship of its program and his close participation with Dr. Temple in a series of endorsements, Dr. Garbett became almost as completely identified with Malvern as was Dr. Temple. Besides, his whole ecclesiastical life had been the practice of what Malvern preached. When Dr. Temple became Archbishop of Canterbury, England's No. 1 primate, Dr. Garbett undertook the heavy burden of the Archbishopric of York, chiefly to assist Dr. Temple in carrying out the Malvern program.
Cyril Forster Garbett (rhymes with carpet) was born (1875) in the little Hampshire parish of Tongham, which served the military camp Queen Victoria had recently established at Aldershot. Garbett's father was vicar. Tongham lies near the chalk downs of Salisbury Plain and the heather-and-fir country of the New Forest. Here, until he was 23, Cyril Garbett lived with his three brothers and one sister (all raised on his father's midget salary). Later Cyril Garbett decided to follow his father, grandfather, and two uncles into the Church of England.