The Henson Journals

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16th Sunday after Trinity, September 30th, 1906.

A perfect autumnal day, only a little too warm. Canon Bigg preached at 10 a.m. on the episode in S. John iv. – a charming & characteristic sermon. I celebrated, and, as it was the first Sunday in term, the Westminster Boys received the Communion – a profoundly moving and consolatory spectacle. The Sub–Dean came to lunch.

In the afternoon I preached on behalf of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. There was a very large congregation, and I begged with all my might, but the offertory only amounted to £27.

The Church Congress held its sessions at Barrow–in–Furness in the first week of October. I had undertaken to read a paper on 'The Training of the Clergy in Reading & Preaching' but I cried off on the score of my throat, and my paper was read for me by Beeching.

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Books purchased in September:

1. The History of English Rationalism in the 19th Century by A. W. Benn. Longman's. 1906. 2 vols.
2. The Apocalypse of St John. Swete.
3. Epistle to the Ephesians. Westcott.
4. Lectures on Modern History. Lord Acton.
5. Knox's History of the Reformation of Religion in Scotland. 20th century edn edited by Cuthbert Lennox.
6. Sketch of the Denominations of the Christian World, by John Evans. 1811

Books purchased in October

1. The Life of Benvenuto Cellini. Translated J. A. Symonds.
2. Fawcett's Abridgement of the Saints Everlasting Rest.
3. Calamy's Nonconformist Memorial, abridged by Palmer. 3 vols.
4. Frazer's Adonis, Attis, Osiris.
5. Lord Acton & his Circle.
6. Fairley's Epitaphiana.
7. Rosebery's Lord Randolph Churchill.
8. Earle's Microcosmography.

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