The Henson Journals

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Saturday, February 14th, 1914.

A copy of the Christian World Pulpit arrived with my Oxford Sermon in it, filling nearly 5 pages! This will, at least, secure its circulation among the Dissenters.

I travelled to Birmingham by the train which left Durham at 12.26, and arrived at 5.35 p.m. At the station Lord Norton's valet met me with a request that I would join him & Jimmie at the Queen's Hotel for tea. I stayed with them for a few minutes, & then went to Aston Rectory. We encountered Canon Sutton almost at his own gate.

"A rather dreary missionary at a C.M.S. meeting had described how he had been entertained by a Maori Chief. There was a large pie, of which he was pressed to partake, & when the crust was cut open, there emerged a finger. 'I bet 'twas our parson's,' interrupted a farmer, 'for he'll have his finger in everybody's pie!'"

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