The Henson Journals
Sun 8 January 1911
Volume 17, Page 160
[160]
Sunday after Epiphany, January 8th, 1911.
The weather had become close & warm, making both preaching & hearing wearisome.
Papillon preached in the Abbey in the forenoon, well but discursively. I celebrated.
At lunch came Papillon & his wife, Rashdall & his wife, Griffiths & his wife, Alice Edith Parker, & Gilbert.
There was a good congregation in the Abbey at 3 p.m. when I preached from Acts IV. 32, the first of two sermons on the thesis, 'How far does Christianity give us direct guidance with respect to these political, social, & economical questions, which now confront us with menacing insistence?' I confined myself to a discussion of the supposed Communism of the Apostolic Church.
At 7 p.m. I went again to the Abbey, & heard a very fair sermon from Malden, the new Principal of the Leed's [sic] Clergy School. He was formerly one of the lodgers at the Deanery.