The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-09-24
BISHOP GORE URGES
NATIONS LEAGUE
Church Unanimity Needed for
Success Of Project. Oxford
Prelate Says.

| The Christian church will play an i'm
portant part in making possible tn,
League OF Nations. said the Right Rev
| Bishop Charles Gore. Lord Bishop o.
Oxford. yesterday in Aeollan Hall before
the National Committee on Churches, the
| Second Federal Reserve Liberty Loar
! Committee and the Laymens Missionary
Movement.
Among other speakers were the Rev
| Samuel NJ. Zweper :. T. q, s. Cairo
| Egypt; the Rev. f.. NJ. Potest u. D.. OF
turman University, Greenville. S. G.:
| Guy Emerson, Director of Publicity OF
the Second Federal Reserve district. and
the Rev. Arthur r. Cutlery, president.
| elect OF the Council of the Free Churches
OF England and Wales and president OF
the Primitive Methodist Union OF Eng
land.
surely the Christian church In all It's
parts and numbers should welcome the
project OF the League Of Nations and or
ganize itself into vigorous unanimity to
press It TO the front in the attention OF
all civilized people, both as a practical
proposal made to US by our most expert
enced and most trusted statesmen. and
as proposal profoundly congenial 10
the Christian church." Bishop Gore said
The proposal j repeat, comes not from
wild idealists. but from practical states
men, from President Wilson. from Mr.
Taft, Mr.. Asqulth. Mr.. Lloyd George,
Lord Grey and Mr.. Balfour and from
others In the allied and neutral nations,
TO say nothing at preseat about Germany
and Austria.
such men cannot be accused OF seek
ing peace at any price or OF failing 10
appreciate the supreme importance of
mr.
energy to the furthest possible point OF
success.
Il see hope In democracy. but am
not satisfied with the part the church
has played. ] have long been persuaded
that the best immediate way of promot-
ing religious unity In our own country
Is for the fragments OF the Christian
church to act together as IL they were
one on the moral and social questions Of
the day. Let us join TO attack the ques-
tons or housing. wages, fellowship Of
employers and employed. commercial dis
honesty. secret commissions, intemper-
ance and sexual morality 70 far as they
AFFECT public policy
In the country MS whole and IN
each town and district let Anglicans
Roman Catholics and Protestants get to-
gether In common council and act to-
gether and bring the weight OF their
combined moral influence to bear on
these grave questions OF public policy so
far as their religious principles admit
Let them Join in prayer together on
neutral ground SO they will learn to
know one another and act In common.
This will be the best basis for re-
ligfous union Of deeper kind. and by
that we can face all the grave difficult
ties involved In a league OF nations with
hope and courage. relying on the hope
which springs out of the heart OF de-
spair and finds in the dissolution OF the
old order the promise OF the new and
the sound instincts of democracy tri-
umphing over dynastic ambitions and in
the reviving spirit OF Christianity the
idea OF catholic fellowship, 1t is the
will OF God"
Following the address OF Bishop Gore
the Rev. Arthur F. Cutlery spoke of the
new feeling he had noticed in Europe
Il have discovered new France. France
IL coming to God In her own way,
whether Catholic or Protestant. I care
not" he said. Elm France the mothers
do the counting and do It we'll A little
tame. but II is virtuous. In France the
mother-in-law rules the mans house ana
he likes It. A nation that can tolerate
that and enjoy Il Ia not far from the
ki3gdom OF Heaven"