 After a year 's study at Cuddesdon , Lang was ordained as deacon . He rejected an offer of the chaplaincy of All Souls as he wanted to be " up and doing " in a tough parish . Lang identified with the Anglo @-@ Catholic tradition of the Church of England , in part , he admitted , as a reaction against his evangelical upbringing in the Church of Scotland . His sympathies lay with the progressive wing of Anglo @-@ Catholicism represented by the Lux Mundi essays , published in 1888 by a group of forward @-@ looking Oxford theologians . Among these was Edward Stuart Talbot , Warden of Keble , who in 1888 had become Vicar of Leeds Parish Church . Talbot had contributed the essay entitled " The Preparation for History in Christ " in Lux Mundi . Lang jumped at the offer of a curacy under Talbot , and arrived in Leeds in the autumn of 1890 . 
