AN OUTSPOKEN BISHOP.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1238, 21 September 1911, Page 5

AN OUTSPOKEN BISHOP.

INDUSTRIAL DISCONTENT JUSTIFIED. By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright (Rec. September 20, 8.45 p.m.) London, September 20. • Bishop Gore, in a farewell letter on his departure from Birmingham, stated that he Ixlieved the present industrial discontent was justified. Christians were not justified in tolerating the conditions of life and labour under which masses of tho people were living. They had no right to say that these conditions were irremediable.

Dr. Gore, who is vacating I'ho Bishopric of Birmingham in order to become Bisnop of Oxford, is one of tho most advanced social reformers on the English bench of bishops. Ho is president of the Christian Social Union, the objects of which are: (1) To claim for the Christian law the ultimato authority to rule social practice. (2) To study in common how to apply the moral truths and principles of Christianity to the social and economic difficulties of the present' time. At Oxford, at Westminster Abbey, and at Birmingham, Dr. Goro has left tho mark of his individuality. He has always shown' an unwavering interest ill social problems, and is an ardent supporter of practical efforts for bettering tho lot of tho poor. Tho writer of a sketch of his career states: "Once convinced of the existence of any social wrong nothing will prevent him from speaking out boldly, not in rhetorical denunciation, but m calm words of heartfelt earnestness that make it impossible for his- hearers to feel comfortable as long as the wrong goes unremedied."