The Henson Journals

Sat 25 July 1914

Volume 19, Page 240

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Saturday, July 25th, 1914.

The Miners' Demonstration. The weather was boisterous & uncomfortable. Public speaking could hardly have been easy either for speakers or for listeners. As Jim Larkin was one of the orators, this was, perhaps, the less to be regretted. Moore–Ede & his wife were early in Durham. At 2.30 p.m. he preached a very suitable sermon to a great concourse of miners. In the course of his sermon he quoted (as if they were quotable!) Ramsey Macdonald & Keir Hardie! However I was relieved that he made no socialistic explosions!

The "Times" sends me Mason's new book on "Episcopacy" to review. It has been produced for the benefit of the Archbishop in the matter of Kikuyu. It is a catena of passages from Anglican divines mostly exalting the Episcopate: but he makes some illuminating admissions.


Issues and controversies: Kikuyu