The Henson Journals

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Christmas Day, Tuesday, December 25th, 1906.

I celebrated at 8 a.m., and preached at 11 a.m. My sermon was moody, melancholy, and minatory – a letting out of the waters of disappointment & disgust, which have been gathering through the course of this long & disastrous education conflict. George Macmillan was in church. The communicants were the fewest on record:–

At	7	a.m.	31
“	8	“	74
“	11	“	157
			262

In the afternoon I attended Evensong in the Abbey: on the way I met Sir John Wolfe Barry, who expressed very strongly his regret at the loss of the Education Bill.

Ker sent me his 'Romanes Lecture' on 'Sturla the Historian', whose very name has hitherto been unknown to me.

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Issues and controversies: education bill