The Henson Journals

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19th Sunday after Trinity, October 17th, 1909.

A warm, wet, woeful morning. I celebrated at 8 a.m. in St Margaret's. There were 17 cts., only 4 men. Then I tried to furbish up an old sermon. The difficulty is to think one's self back into the mood & situation in which the sermon was originally composed. There was a larger congregation than the weather seemed to promise, but much smaller than a fine day would have witnessed. I preached on S. Paul's admonition to the Romans, "Take thought for things honourable in the sight of all men." Dr Newman Smyth, with his wife and two daughters came to lunch. He has considerable natural qualifications for the social rôle of a bore, but is evidently a good man, obsessed with the notion that re–union is possible on the basis of a moderate episcopacy. 'I hae my doots', but the ambition is not unworthy.

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Issues and controversies: recognition of/reunion with non-episcopal churches