The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-05
BISHOP CORE IS COMING TUESDAY ID
 URGE GREAT CAUSE
League of Nations After War Held to Be One of Vital World
 Needs

Rt Rev. Charles Gore, bishop of Oxford Dr. George Eaves of Birmingham has been invited to speak at the institute which will be held in Atlanta today, to- morrow and Monday. following which the distinguished British clergyman will come to Birmingham.
 The mission of Bishop Gore to Amer ica is that of urging in the churches of this country the idea of league of nations after the war. The bishop comes by invitation Of the national com mittee on the churches and the moral aims of the war, which is associated with the speaking division of the com mittee on public information, in dissem-
 mating knowledge of Americas aims. Birmingham, Atlanta, Knoxville and Little Rock are the only cities in the south to be honored with a visit by
 Bishop Gore. The church mass meeting will be held at the First Methodist church Tuesday evening, October $; at 8 o'clock
 The following is the appeal for support of league of nations, addressed to the Christian nations of the world It is signed by leading clergymen of the An
 glican and other denominations of the
 British Isles:
 We, the signatories of this document. belonging to various Christian bodies, 1 have noted with the greatest satisfac-
 ton the prominent place given by the l President of the United States and by
 successive prime ministers and foreign secretaries of our own country to the proposal of league of nations. The idea ! has also. was to be expected, won
 wide support among the official repre-
 sentatives of Christian communions, e. B.
 in the pope's appeal to the powers last i of Canterbury.
 l But more is yet needed to make mani.
 fest and effective the full force of Chris
 tian conviction in its favor, still largely
 latent, but capable of being evoked if
 only the vital import of the idea be
 brought forcibly home to Christian peo-
 pie at large.
 Tn the name, then, of the Prince of
 Peace, we would call on them duly to consider and openly to welcome the idea
 of such a league as shall safeguard | TteilI anu permanent peace and shall also have power in the last l resort to constrain by economic pressure
 or armed force any nation refusing to 1 submit to arbitration or international ad- | Indication in the first instance any dis
 pute with another tending to war. l i"We believe that new system of in
 ternational law and authority, acting through an inclusive league of nations in place of any balance of power, is a con- dition of just and lasting peace par | ticularly as 1t affords means whereby the fresh demands of national life as | they arise can be adjudicated upon and
 euuitably satisfied
 Accordingly, we hold it to be Of the
 utmost importance, as President Wilson
 has just emphasized. that such a league
 should not merely be contemplated as a
 more or less remote outcome of a fu- | ture settlement, but should be put in
 the very forefront of the peace terms as | their presupposition and guarantee. | "Whether it be or be not practicable, 1 without any slackening of the energy with which the war must be waged, to make a beginning upon the league as regards the allies and neutrais. even be-
 fore the peace conference. we do not
 venture to decide. though we think this
 course has much to commend It. But we are sure of the pressing need there | is here and now of giving the league of l nations the backing of an organized 1 body of strong conviction; sure, also, thai | this task offers to the Christian con 1 sciousness an opportunity to make its own spirit felt in national policy such
 as has not occurred heretofore since the
 outbreak of this war
 l The following committees have been
 appointed to arrange for the visit of I Bishop Gore and Rev. Dr. Ashby Jonese
 of Atlanta. to Birmingham next Tues | day:
 Committee on entertainment; Rev. pr.
 p E. Wells and Rev. Jesse Cook. Rev. s. O. Coxe and Rev. A. K. Wright. This | committee will meet the guests at the
 train from Atlanta. which will arrive Tn l time for the luncheon.
 | Committee on luncheon; Dr. H. h. 1 Iibbs pr. J. M. Broadly, pr. G. k l Stuart and Dr. A. N. Simpson and Rev. lT q Cassady The luncheon will De held at the Hillman hotel at p. m The clergy of all denominations in the city ] will attend the luncheon.
 l Committee on mass meeting ana pup 1ic;tv. Rev. L. F. Whtten, Rev. pr. ] 1T P. Hay and Dr. c. Ross Baker, Rev.
 Thomas Lennox and Rev. M. s. Barnweil,
 Russell c. Booth, J. G. Bond, +. M Jack son. Ira Champion and Dr. N, A. Barrett. 1 The mass meeting will be held at the First Methodist church Tuesday evening ,+ Q o,clock Bishop Gore and pr. Jones