The Henson Journals
Tue 22 December 1914
Volume 20, Page 97
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 1914.
141st day
The frost continues, & the ground is slippery as glass. I worked at a sermon for Christmas day, but the prospect of having the soldiers as the bulk of my congregation makes it difficult to preach anything but the briefest & simplest discourse. I attended a meeting of the Relief Committee: started to walk with Lillingston but gave it up as a bad job after falling down, & skipping about perilously: attended Evensong in the Cathedral. Mother & Marion arrived from Birchington. After dinner I read divers foolish things to the company, & so passed the time: & then, with a night–cap of 'Don Quixote' I went to bed, mightily dissatisfied with myself & all things on earth!