The Henson Journals

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Friday, November 15th, 1912. Cambridge, Mass.

The weather was again fine, though plainly not settled. I took for my subject at morning prayers the Parable of Dives & Lazarus. Peabody & Edward Moore both expressed themselves very appreciatively of my work in the Chapel, and assured me that the youth were much attracted. My vigil at Wadsworth House was largely occupied by three interviews. James Gifford came to say goodbye: we protested eternal friendship. Mr Charles F. Abbott, a very intelligent–looking man, who explained that he was the headmaster of a large High School having seven teachers under him, & was spending his 'sabbatical year’ by attending lectures at Harvard, interested me much. He has been among my audience at Andover College, & evidently not a little impressed by what he has heard. He said that he was uncomfortable about the development of the American educational system, which he thought was becoming morally weaker as it became frankly secular. A youth with a precociously learned aspect, whose name was Russell, professed himself an 'Universalist’: which apparently is a sect holding with respect to our Saviour Unitarian opinions. He hailed from the State of Missouri. A few more letters arrived from England but they were very few, & contained little that was interesting, & nothing that was at all important.

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Dean Hodges sent round the English papers for me to look at. There were kind notices of my appointment in the 'Spectator’ and the 'Guardian’; an unkind one in the 'Church Times’. The last also contained hostile notices of both my new books! Of course I can expect nothing else. I gather from one of my correspondents that the "Manchester Guardian" has attacked my appointment on the ground (inter alia) of my being an unyielding Tory!

I lunched at the Harvard Union as the guest of Mr Boynton, one of the Andover students.

Then I went back to the House, & wrote no less than ten letters answering the more important of the congratulations.

We dined with Dean Hodges. Several of the Professors of the Theological Seminary were there. After dinner, in the Smoking Room, I was appealed to with respect to the merits of a number of students, whom the College authorities are considering with a view to selecting a successor to Dr Nash in the Chair of New Testament Literature. I spoke strongly in favour of Kirsopp Lake, though I doubt whether he would feel himself free to accept a position in America.

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Statement of the 'honoraria’ during my visit:–

[symbol]	Pottstown	preaching to the	boys,	on Sept 29 th	100.
[symbol]	Williamstown	“ “ “	students,	Oct 6 th	50.
[symbol]	Yale	“ “ “	“	“ 13 th	50
[symbol]	Albany	speaking at	Educational Function,	Oct 15 th	100
[symbol]	Schenectady	lecturing to	students,	Oct 16 th	50
[symbol]	Cornell	preaching to	students,	“ 20	100.
[symbol]	Philadelphia	“ “ “	“	“ 27 th	50.
[symbol]	Bryn Mawr	“ “ “	“	“	50.
[symbol]	Harvard	“ “ “	“	Nov. 3–10	100.
[symbol]	“	taking	daily prayers		120.
[symbol]	Wellesley	preaching to	students	Nov. 3 rd	20.
[symbol]	Brookline	lecturing to	Men’s Club	Nov 11.	40.
[symbol]	Andover	'Southmore	Lectures’		250.
[symbol]	Columbia	preaching to	students	Nov 17 th	25.
[symbol]	New York	preaching			50.
[symbol]	Union Seminary	lecturing			100
					$1255

The expenses of the tour will amount to nearly $1200: but there will be economies effected in our housekeeping by an absence of 14 weeks, & by the avoiding of any special holiday expenditure. It would seem that, if no unforeseen expense befalls us, we shall clear enough to pay the cost of our dilapidations in No. 17 Dean's Yard.

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