26 JANUARY 1918, Page 11

[To me Murcia or THE " firsornoa. - ] Sts,—Only on the

evening of the 18th inst. did I see in the Spec- tator of the 12th inst. the Bishop of Oxford's personal disclaimer. which obviously requires a full and candid rejoinder. As soon as I return home the Spectator shall at once be sent proof to the nth of my "exact-words" excerpt. I hope I am not quite so silly as to make a statement without having carefully verified my facts and references. These, I apprehend, Bishop Gore himself .will recognize as fully substantiating my statement to which he now takes exception, and will discover that his. Christadelphian crutch is a very precarious support indeed. Of course Bishop Gore may have changed his mind and altered his views since 1902. I do not impute male fides to him, but merely a faulty recollection of his ipsissima verba reported as they stand in at least four different newspapers. My object in republishing these was not to discredit (were that feasible) him with the " orthodox " world, as he seems to suggest, but to protest against what appears to me his unsporting attack on the Bishop-elect of Hereford.—I am,