The Henson Journals
Wed 12 January 1916
Volume 20, Page 585
[585]
Wednesday, January 12th, 1916.
527th day
The weather continues unseasonably warm, and tends again to be tempestuous. I read Robertson all the morning, & again before dinner. / It is amazingly difficult to frame a coherent notion of him. Evidently he chafed against his position. The fretting attentions of pious women must have exasperated and humiliated his essentially virile understanding. His letters are full of angry contempt for the preacher's work. I can understand this, being a preacher myself. He felt a kind of loathing for Evangelism, while he disapproved Tractarianism. Nor would he suffer himself to be classed with the 'Christian Socialists'. His loneliness was absolute.