The Henson Journals

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Saturday, November 16th, 1912.

A cold bright day. I finished my duty in the Chapel, taking as my text the two conceptions of human life implied in the narrative of the request of the sons of Zebedee, & the reply of Christ. I had several visitors at Wadsworth House. One man, Gulick, interested me greatly. He wanted to know what I meant by the expression, 'the moralisation of Privilege', which I had used in one of the morning addresses. We had an interesting conversation. He said that he was a socialist, but he was intensely convinced of the truth of Christianity. He was destined to be an architect. We parted on the understanding that he shd visit Durham, & go over the Cathedral with me!

We called on Mrs Moore, & said 'Goodbye'. Then we packed our trunks &c, & made our farewells to the Kellners. We travelled by 'the Knickerbocker Limited' Express to New York. We lunched on the train.

Dr Coffin met us at the station. We found a bundle of letters from England awaiting us, all congratulatory but some (e.g. those from Mary, Linetta, & Gilbert) conceived in rather a sad vein, with a suggestion of 'et tu Brute' running through them. There was a small dinner party including Dr Brown, the Dean of the Divinity School at Yale. We discussed Social politics, & I soon found that I was in an atmosphere of Christian Socialism.

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