Religion: Gore and Lawrence

The Bishop of Massachusetts mistook the ex-Bishop of Oxford. It was Haley Fiske, President of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., who stumbled upon the mistake.

The Bishop of Massachusetts, William Lawrence, published a little book (TIME, Jan. 14). Liberals in the Episcopal Church reviewed it with joy. Insurance President Fiske sent a copy of the book to his old friend, the Rt. Rev. Charles Gore (Bishop of Oxford from 1911 to 1919, famed High Churchman of the Church of England) because the book quoted Dr. Gore in support of its thesis. Dr. Gore...

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