The Henson Journals

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4th Sunday after Easter, April 20th, 1913.

Bright sun, & a bitterly cold wind. I celebrated in the Cathedral at 8 a.m. Ella & our guests Mr & Mrs Prideaux, communicated. Litany & Holy Communion took exactly 45 minutes.

At Mattins happened an untoward circumstance – the Bede College students left the church in a body during the Hymn after Mattins! Presumably they would not be present at any part of the Communion Service! These Northerners have odd notions of discipline. I read the Lessons, and Bp. Tucker preached & celebrated. There were but 5 women to communicate apart from the clergy.

I attended Evensong in the Cathedral: & then was fetched in a motor–car, & conveyed to Sunderland, where I preached in S. Mark's Church – a sufficiently modest building erected 41 years ago to serve a district cut out of the old parish of MonkWearmouth [sic]. The parson – Newman – seemed a reasonable person. The R.V. was used at the Lectern. The congregation was rather markedly feminine, but attentive: & the service hearty. I returned to Durham by the 9.40 train.

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