The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-08
ENGLISH D|V|NES ID SPEAK TONIGHT AT METHODIST CHURCH Bishop Gore and Rev. Guth- cry to Speak on League
 of Nations After
 the War ..aiA

The Right Rev. Charles Gore, bishop of Oxford, representing the established church of England and the Rev. A. T. Guthery of Liverpool, representing the nonconformist churches, will address a mass meeting at the First Methodist church tonight The theme will be a league of nations for peace-after the war is over. The meeting will begin at s o'clock.
 Bishop Gore is not only high digni- tary of the Church of England, but is recognized inside and outside of his con- munion as a scholar of rare attainments and dynamic leader in spiritual thought and civic affairs.
 . He is 65 years of age but appears to be in the very prime of life Like all Englshmen of learning he has been ever busy with his pen. His industry has been prodigious. for hls publications number upwards of 2O-many of them controver- sial and all of them marked by virile expression and literary skill. His polem- lc work alone would have won for him distinction, but in addition to that his ecclesiastical duties have been exacting nile his large human sympathy has kept him in close touch with all kinds of welfare activity.
 Bishop Gore comes of the English mo- bility. Educated at Harrow and Baliol college, Oxford and appointed fellow of Trinity college, he canie into public view soon after his ordination. At the age of 27 he was vice principal of Cud- desdon Theological college. In 1891 he was chosen Hampton lecturer. He selected for his subject ''The Incarnation" In these lectures the Encyclopedia Brittan- frac tla +rin tIna enuEciation of which in Lux Mundi had caused so much heart-searching. This < is an attempt to explain how it came that Christ, though incarnate God, could be in error, for example, in his cita- tions from the Old Testament. .. .. Lux Mundi and the Bampton lectures led to situation of some tension, which was relieved when, in 1893, pr. Gore re- signed his principalship and became vi- car of Radley, small parish near Ox- ford
 Tn 1894 Gore became canon of Westmn- ster, where he gained commanding in- fluence as a preacher. In 1898 he was appointed one of the court chaplains.
 At Oxford he allied himself with the Pusey school of churchmanship and preached and wrote against the Roman ward movement led by John Henry New man, afterwards Cardinal Newman. He had large following among Oxford un- QerRraQudIeS ana was eXcepllOudlly pup ular with the younger clergy. In 1902 he was consecrated bishop of Worchester After serving there three years he was inducted into the see of Birmingham, which had been created mainly by his efforts. From Birmingham he was trans lated a few years ago to Oxford.
 The Brittanica says of him that while adhering rigidly to his views on the divine institution of episcopacy as es- sential to the Christian church, Dr. Gore from the first cultivated friendly rela- tions with the ministers of other denomi- nations and advocated cooperation with }Sthem in all matters when agreement was possible. Tn social questions he became ! one of the leaders of the considerable group of high churchmen known. some z what loosely, as Christian socialists. He worked actively against the sweating sys- tenn, pleaded for European intervention E in Macedonia and was a keen supporter of the licensing bill of 1908. In 1892 he founded the clerical fraternity known as E the community of the Resurrection. Its members are priests, who are bound by the obligation of celibacy, live under { the common rule and with common purse"
 Bishop Gore is, as might be imag- { ined, thoroughly democratic. He is full of the comrade spirit and as an orator his charm is compelling.