The Henson Journals

Wed 1 January 1908 to Sat 11 January 1908

Volume 16, Pages 272 to 273

[272]

Wednesday, January 1st, 1908.

The new year brings me rather a formidable, and possibly an important invitation. Among the bills and picture cards, which at this season fill the family post–bag, was a business–like looking type–written letter from America, which turned out to be an invitation from the Theological Department of Yale University to deliver the Lyman Beecher Lectures on Preaching.

[273]

The first Sunday in the New Year was marked by a thick fog and a hard frost. Cecil preached in the Abbey at the morning service. He was full of his experiences in the East, and delivered a really excellent sermon. In the afternoon I preached drearily to a frozen assembly, and again in S. Margaret's at 7 p.m.

On Tuesday evening the choir boys of S. Margaret's came to their party.

Watson preached on the Epiphany a thoughtful, antiquarian discourse.

On Saturday, Feb. 11th, we attended the funeral of Mrs Northcote, a daughter of Dean Farrar.


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