He demanded of them all a categorical assent to the literal truth of the miraculous, in exactly the same sense in which physical facts are true.

Every word of the creeds had to be uttered _ex animo_.

"It is very hard to be a good Christian." Yes; but did Dr.Gore make it harder than it need be?
There was something not very unlike a heresy hunt in the diocese over which the editor of _Lux Mundi_ ruled with a rod of iron.
I remember once speaking to Dr.Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, about the Virgin Birth.

He told me that he had consulted Charles Gore on this matter, and that he agreed with Charles Gore's ruling that if belief in that miracle were abandoned Christianity would perish.

Such is the fate of those who put their faith in dogmas, and plant their feet on the sands of tradition.
Dr.Gore's life as a Bishop, first of Worcester, then of Birmingham, and finally of Oxford, was disappointing to many of his admirers, and perhaps to himself.