ISTORY is rarely more than the biography of great men." This brief biography of one who was often spoken of in his later days as "Father Gore" is part of the history of the work of the Churches of Christ in Australia. It is the love-work of his youngest daughter. She has laid us all under a debt of gratitude in giving us this brief life-story of her father. No man has better deserved to be remembered than Thomas Jefferson Gore: saintly in life--brilliant in intellect--full of the milk of human kindness--one who "did justly, loved mercy and walked humbly with his God."

      Of all the enrichments that bless a country nothing exceeds the value of good men and women.

Brother Gore was a "good" man, a man "full of faith and the Holy Spirit."

      This tribute from his daughter tells of his early life, his ideals, his missionary fervour, his work as preacher, educator, editor, scholar, pastor, friend. "Perhaps his best epitaph is that he was never happy but in making others happy."

      Those who are interested in the lives of good men, and in the plea for the Restoration of Primitive Christianity, will find this booklet more interesting and more instructive than any novel. It is easy and delightful reading. One who takes it up will not [7] willingly lay it down until the last word has been read. The life-work of T. J. Gore is one of the few books that the reader wishes had more pages.

      The writer of this Foreword owes T. J. Gore more than he can write. Brother Gore led me to Christ, baptised me, married me, and gave me a father's love. During his later days I lived a few doors from him, and we often met and dug our life's roots deeper into each other's friendship. This intercourse was only interrupted by his Home-going. He had earned his furlough.

      "The court of Christian aristocracy differs from all living aristocracy in this: it is open to labour and to merit, but to nothing else. No wealth will bribe, no name overawe, no artifice deceive, the guardian of those Elysian gates. . . . Do you deserve to enter? Pass. Do you ask to be the companion of nobles? Make yourself noble and you shall be. Do you long for the conversation of the wise? Learn to understand it and you shall hear it. But on other terms? No." ("Sesame and Lilies.")

Geo. T. Walden,
      Edmund-avenue,
            Unley, South Australia. [7]

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