The Henson Journals

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18th Sunday after Trinity, October 14th, 1906.

The weather has become properly autumnal. The sun was bright as we went to Church for the early service, but there was a soupçon of frost in the air. There were 18 commts at 8 a.m.

At Mattins there was a large congregation. I noticed Mr Victor Cavendish & Lady Evelyn, General Maurice, Sir Geo. & Lady Bartley, & several other 'old faces'. I preached on 'Covetousness'.

After lunch I revised my notes, & then drove to the King's Weigh House Chapel, Duke Street, Grosvenor Square, where I addressed a slender company of 'young men & women' for half an hour. Hadden was there.

At Evensong there was again in S. Margaret's a large congregation. I preached on 'Morality & Happiness', using much of what I had written for St Giles's.

Tisdall, Bineham, Brown, & Custard came to supper. I am annoyed to learn that Routledge has been making advances to Bineham. The boy asked me about him.

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Charges for the year 1906

Electric Light	33.	17.	3.
Electric Light insurance &c.	3.	9.	0.
Water Rate	9.	12.	9.
Insurance	1.	15.	0
Coals	48.	10.	0
Repairs	5.	13.	6
House cleaning	15.	9.	5
Chemist	6.	2.	9
Doctor & Dentist	54.	4.	0
Wine	40.	14.	6
Water Purifying Cy	1.	5.	0
Insurances	298.	2.	6
Loan – Repayment & Int:	120.	0.	0
Charities &c.	250.	0.	0
Rates & Taxes	c.200.	0.	0
Wages	100	0.	0
Tradesmen's Acct
Postage & Stationary	c.20.	0.	0
Books & Papers	62.	0.	0
Travelling
Clothes	10.	8.	0
Holidays

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On Friday, the 19th October 1906, I travelled to Edinburgh leaving Euston at 10 a.m. and reaching my journey's end at 6.45 p.m, half an hour after time. There was a violent snow storm raging, and the temperature fell almost (so my feelings suggested) to freezing point. Mine host, the Rev. Mitford Mitchell, 39 Palmerston Place, received me with much cordiality. At dinner I met the following divines – Butler, (the Tron Church), Cameron Lees (S. Giles), Fisher (Morningside), Williamson (S. Cuthbert's), and Patterson. Saturday was bright and mild. In the morning mine host took me to Holyrood, and about the city: in the afternoon, we drove about the environs: in the evening I met at dinner a brace of ancients, Weir & Marshall.

On Sunday, the 21st Oct, I preached twice – at Morningside, where the Church was crowded to excess, and in S. Giles' where the nave and aisles were filled. The latter sermon took exactly 47 minutes to deliver.

On Monday, through falling rain, I went across to Row, spending an hour in Glasgow on the way & execrating the magenta windows of the Cathedral. On Tuesday I went by steamer to Greenock where I was met by a carriage, & driven to [131] Ardgowan, where Lady Alice Shaw–Stewart and Lady Cromer her sister received me hospitably. Mine host, Sir Hugh Shaw–Stewart returned from shooting at lunch. In the afternoon I was taken for a motor drive along the coast as far as beyond Fairlie. After a premature & hasty dinner, we i.e. mine host & hostess & myself, motored into Greenock, where the Scottish Young Men's League held a public meeting in connection with its 'semi–Jubilee'. The rain descended in torrents, and no doubt reduced the attendance, but there were seven or eight hundred on the lowest estimate, & they were very enthusiastic. I spoke for exactly half an hour on 'The Strength & Weakness of Youth'.

On Wednesday, the 24th Oct:, I returned to Row, and the following day (Thursday, the 25th Oct) was spent quietly there. On Friday, the 26th, my wife & I returned to Westminster, by way of Edinburgh, where we broke the journey in order to attend the funeral of a Canadian relative, Miss M. Dennistoun.

We got into Dean's Yard a few minutes after midnight.

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