The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-23

in the history of the English church. | It would almost seem as if this paragraph casts some doubt on the potent position of the greatest leader of religious thought in the world. But the paradox is subtle. The younger generation of AngIo-Cath- olics, we are told, are not, as a rule, either scholars or gentlemen: and when Bishop Gore goes, the Anglo Catholic party will perish, because tt will become so extreme that the English temperament cannot endure it.
 The Anglo Catholic party, we are solemnly told, insults its blshops. and yet believes in Apostolical succession. Dr. Gore thinks that the supreme mis- take of Christianity was in placing it. self under the protection and patron | age or national governments He signs for a spiritualized Labor party. He does not believe that the present industrial system can be Christianiz- cd We hear nothing of his diet, but we are sure that. outside of Lent, the bishop eats roast beef and Yorkshire pudding, for he dismisses the spectre Of communism by asserting that the last thing an Englishman will part with is his property"
 1 The chapter on the Very Reverend Dean Inge is delightful "The Gentle man With Duster," saying:
 Here in the midst of over shadow ing warehouses and until he came hither at the age of fifty one, few people in London had ever heard his name Civilian Ralph Inge) name which even now is more fre- quently pronounced as if 1t rhymed With 'cringe' instead of 'sting'-here | the dean of St. Pauls looking at one moment like Don Quixote, at another like figure from the pages of Dos toevsky, and fitting almost noiseless- l " about rooms which would surely have been filled for the mind of Dick ems with ghosts of both sexes and of every order and degree-here the great dean faces the problems of the universe, dwells much with his own soul, and fights the Seven Devils of Foolishness in Q style which the Church of England has not known since the days of Swift
 The Gentleman With a Dusterr de- clares that the dean despises the modern ritualist-" the Latin church in England which disowns the Pope as an absurdity." He is shrewd and witty and courageous. Our author compares him to Erasmus, but con siders him far more learned" He | IS the moderate among modernlsts.
 A Gentleman With Duster" says that there is no greater mind in the English nation. He has the range of Lord Acton, the "forthrightness of pr. Johnson, the wit of Voltaire and l of Socrates. But he lacks profound sympathy with the human race" Let us quote some of his utterances
 Seminaries for the early training of future clergymen may indeed be established, but beds of exotics can not be raised by keeping the garden CTS in greenhouses while the young plants are in the open air. And again:
 Our clergy are positively tumbIinE over each other in their eagerness to be appointed Court Chaplain to King Demos.
 And still again:
 A generation which travels 60 miles an hour must be five times as civilized as the one which travels only 12.
 If any one will take just a little .ime and turn the aphorisms into the Greek language, he will easily dis cover how very like they are to the utterances of Socrates
 Che of the interesting of all the personalities" upon which the ''duster" is used is that picturesque and fascinating man the Reverend Roland Arbouthnott Knox, Father Knox" or Bonnie" as The Gentle man With a Duster" declares "every- ibody calls himG The picture of Father Knox, who was received into the Roman Catholic church in 1907-the son of an Angel lean bishop is notably drawn; his education at Eton and Oxford, "and | for the moment he found that greater and beautiful world in the life of Ballior says the author, Fellow and Lecturer at Trinity College--Chaplain for five years and after reading life of extragant and fighting ritual ism as an Anglican priest retires from the Church of England and is received into the Church of Rome"
 Father Knox Is pictured as eS- tremely temperamcntal and emotion al-all sorts of small things getting on his nerves" as it were--"craving as he always has for human sympathy and speaking frequently of the God he worshipped, loved and feared"
 T prayed for a sick friend with both hands held above the level of my head" quoted "The Gentleman With a Duster." flor a quarter of an hour or more once"
 I He was "universalfst recoiling from the idea of he'll" continues the author
 He believes in omens does Father Knox though he does not always take them and is thoroughly superstitious.
 "The name of Rome has always for me stood out from any printed page, merely because it's initial is that of my own name" The Gentleman with & Duster" quotes Father Knox as saying:
 "The Gentleman with Duster' is not we'll pleased with the Westmin- ster cathedral. The fog obscured the glittering altar. It was in the eve