The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, August 7th, 1912.

As long as men have eyes as well as ears, they will think they see your meaning as well as hear it; & they are more apt to believe their sight than their hearing, as being the more perfect sense. All that a preacher doth is a kind of preaching: & when you live a covetous or a careless life, you preach those sins to your people by your practice.

Baxter. 'Reformed Pastor' p. 73.

Ella went off to Scotland by the morning express.

The "Times" announces that the Government have granted a Select Committee of the House to inquire into the measure of responsibility attaching to the Directors of the Peruvian Amazon Cy for the Putumayo atrocities.

I visited the dentist, returning thro' the Park. I fell in with Lord Emmott, who told me that a Select Committee would have power to compel attendance of persons, & production of documents.

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Issues and controversies: Putumayo