The Henson Journals
Sun 20 December 1908
Volume 16, Pages 409 to 410
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4th Sunday in Advent, December 20th, 1908.
A dull, damp, depressing morning, with the intermixture of rain & fog which is the popular (but mistaken) ideal of suicidal weather! I celebrated in S. Margaret's at 8 a.m. The communicants numbered 21, and all saving the clergy, and the clerk were of the female sex! What does it mean? Is there a basis for nonconformity in the unsatisfied demand of virility?
At Mattins the congregation was not large, but it included the Speaker, Lord St Aldwyn, Alfred Lyttelton, and Dicey. I preached from the second lesson, Rev.VI having for my subject ''Divine Self–vindication in Judgement''. The Offertory amounted to something over £12: which perhaps was above the average for the Sunday before Christmas.
Beeching fetched me out for a walk in the course of the afternoon.
There was but a moderate congregation at Evensong. I preached on ''Christ the Consoler''. The offertory was nearly £6, which exceeded my expectation.
After supper I read Milton's Hymn on the Nativity aloud to my 'family'. Linetta was more impressed with its beauty & power than I had hoped.
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| 1. | Charles | ordained | 1883 |
| 2. | Bonney | “ | 1857 |
| 3. | Rashdall | “ | 1884 |
| 4. | Newsome | “ | 1895 |
| 5. | Caldecott | “ | 1880 |
| 6. | Cruikshank | “ | 1891 |
| 7. | Kennett | ||
| 8. | Pearce | ||
| 9. | Hadden | ||
| 10. | Storr | ||
| 11. | Pryke | ||
| 12. | Fearon | ||
| 13. | Furneaux | ||
| 14. | Inge | ||
| 15. | Gamble | ||
| 16. | Alexander | ||
| 17. | Bernard of Trinity, Dublin | ||
| 18. | Danks | ||
| 19. | Beeching | ||
| 20. | Watson |