The Henson Journals

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17th Sunday after Trinity, September 14th, 1913.

We walked in to the little Episcopalian Church, & there attended service. The sermon was preached by Mr Skinner Wilson, the Dean of Edinburgh, from the words in the Sermon on the Mount. 'Be not anxious for your life &c.' It was a simple exhortation, not inappropriate to the occasion of a harvest thanksgiving. We stayed to the Holy Communion. When we came out of church, the rain was falling heavily.

I wrote to the Bishop of Jarrow, telling him that I should ask for a loan from the chapter in order to carry through the restoration of the crypt.

Then I once more went through that hapless Congress Sermon, 'Ideas & Institutions'. It pleases me less every time I read it.

After dinner I ran through a small book called "The real Lloyd–George" written apparently as a rejoinder to some worshipper's account of that Idol. It makes some good points, & is not ineffective: but the violence with which it is expressed defeats its object: & leaves a candid reader with the impression that whatever else he has gained, he has not gained a view of 'the real Lloyd–George'. I do not myself think there is any complex problem in the man.

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