The Henson Journals

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Friday, September 24th, 1915.

417th day

I started on the Huguenot sermon, and made some progress. I project an answer to the question, Ought we to thank God for the Reformation? As the occasion of my preaching is a thanksgiving for the same, the inquiry can hardly be thought irrelevant. I attended Evensong, & afterwards walked for an hour with Lillingston. Then I called on old Greenwell & had some interesting talk with him. I asked him when & how he became an antiquary. He told me that when he was shooting at Ford, then the seat of the Marquess of Waterford, the keeper brought to him a bronze dagger, which had been found on the estate. This interested him in such findings, & he was gradually led to exert himself both to collect the remains of prehistoric man, and to study the subject. Lord Waterford introduced him to Sir Tatton Sykes, by whom he was introduced to other landlords, who gave him facilities for 'digging' on their properties. He told me that Payne, the foreman in the Cathedral, had been to see him & had impressed him favourably. I wrote a short letter to the "Record" protesting against Gore's breach of the 'Truce' between parties by his publication of a highly controversial article on the Archbishop's "Statement" on Kikuyu. I dined with the Lillingstons. Miss Webb–Peploe is staying there.

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Issues and controversies: Kikuyu