The Henson Journals

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Saturday, March 11th, 1916.

586th day

The weather continues to be wintry, but there were signs that the snow would soon be replaced by rain. The post brought me some letters from Bishops acknowledging copies of 'Robertson' which, at my direction, the publishers had sent them. The Bishops of St Alban's and Southwark wrote in terms of warm regard for a teacher, who had been much to them. I spent the morning mainly in an attempt to prepare notes for the lecture in Newcastle tomorrow. But the task is no easy one. Robertson's life is curiously uneventful, and uninteresting: and the psychological problem he himself presents is not attractive to the mixed multitude who resort to Sunday lectures. Probably it will be best to 'talk large' about the times in which he lived! The "Spectator" prints my letter "Sectarianism & Secularisation", & adds a penitent editorial expressing agreement! Ella & I motored through sleet to Hetton, & there attended a squalid function in connection with the opening of another batch of Aged Miners' Homes. We got back about 9 p.m.

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