The Henson Journals

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16thSunday after Trinity, September 11th, 1910.

Mitchell preached an excellent sermon on the prophet Jeremiah. His style, perhaps, is too rhetorical, & his delivery too declamatory. The vergers say that he could not be heard in the transepts. But this is a venial fault on the first trial of the building. I celebrated in the Abbey at noon.

In the afternoon there was again a very large congregation. I preached on the Prayer of the Sons of Zebedee, making the text a basis for a discourse on Nepotism.

After the service Prof. Moore & his daughter came to tea. He was very interesting, giving us a vivacious account of Dr Grenfell, with whom he spent a holiday in Labrador, and whom he holds in the highest regard.

At 7 p.m. the Abbey was crowded for the third time today. Baumgarten preached an extempore sermon, which, however, could have been heard by but a small part of the congregation, as he never took the trouble of raising his voice above the conversational pitch.

Alec: Beechy came in to supper.

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