The Henson Journals

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7th Sunday after Trinity, July 26th, 1914.

I celebrated at 8 a.m. and forgot (until reminded by Budworth) to minister the chalice to the clergy within the rails. This stupidity of mine caused a regrettable dislocation of the devotional order.

At Matins I installed Bishop Quirk as canon. There was a quaint ceremony in the Chapter House first. I gave him a copy of the statutes together with a loaf of bread & a bottle of wine, saying: – "We receive thee as a Canon & invest thee & deliver to thee the form of regular observance contained in this book for thy spiritual food & the corporal refreshment of bread & wine as a support of thy labours."

Cruickshank preached an interesting sermon on music, or rather he read an interesting essay, for there was hardly anything properly sermonic about his discourse.

After Evensong, I took Streeter for a walk, and then wrote letters to Raleigh and Marion.

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On Tuesday July 28th 1914, I wrote a review of Canon Mason's new book on "Episcopacy", and sent it to the "Times".

The same day, I went with the Receiver to visit the Chapter Estates. We devoted all our time to the village of Great Burdon, of which we are sole owners. We visited five tenants.

On our return, we read in the evening paper that Austria had declared war on Servia.

"Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless." Gibbon.

"We may say at least that the meaning of the philosophy of history is misapprehended until it is recognised that its function is not to solve problems but to transform them.' [sic]

Bury. Introd: to Gibbon, p. xxxix.

"It has sometimes been remarked that those histories are most readable which are written to prove a thesis." Ibid xli

'It is well to realize that the greatest history of modern times was written by one in whom a distrust of enthusiasm was deeply rooted.; v. Ibid. p. lxvii

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