The Henson Journals

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Monday, August 30th, 1915.

392nd day

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"Religion itself is apt to come to terms with the temper of the day. Immorality is thrust into the background. Christian civilization takes the place of the Kingdom of God; & morality, that of eternal life. The Churches chatter progress, & the secular & clerical arm are linked together in the interests of sanctified worldliness."

(Father Tyrrell 'Xity at the Crossroads' p. 156)

I read through this book. It is very brilliant, & almost painfully interesting, but it does not satisfy me. A vein of almost insolent paradox runs through it. After all, the Roman Church today has a far closer likeness to that proud hierarchical system which Jesus defied, & which destroyed Him, than to Jesus Himself. Liberal Protestantism is pretty wide of the truth in its interpretation of the Lord, but it is much nearer than Roman Modernism. I attended Evensong; took Logic for a walk through Houghall wood; & wrote letters to my brother in India, and also to Raleigh, now settled in his new house in Oxford.

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