The Henson Journals

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Friday, November 14th, 1913.

Preachers are like unskilled doctors with the same pill & draught for every complaint. They do not know where the fatal spot lies on lung or heart or nerve which robs us of life.

"Mark Rutherford"

I spent the morning in preparing a sermon for next Sunday when the Mayor & Corporation are to come to the Cathedral.

The papers report the release from prison of the egregious Larkin, & his own speeches thereupon. With remarkable insight he told his sympathizers that the Government had made a mistake in putting him in prison, but a much greater one in letting him out! He breathes unimaginable things beginning with a general strike throughout the islands! Events are moving very quickly. At the present pace we may have blood–letting before Christmas.

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