The Henson Journals
Tue 9 May 1916
Volume 20, Page 622
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Tuesday, May 9th, 1916.
645th day
Bishop Bilbrough celebrated in the Cathedral at 8 a.m. Going and coming he walked beside me. The Bishop of Durham and about 40 clergy communicated. I attended the three addresses, and listened with a genuine desire to understand what was really intended by this much–emphasized "National Mission of Religion & Hope"; but I learned nothing. The points on which particular stress was laid were just the old familiar exhausted shibboleths of the High Church Faction – daily service, Holy Communion as a substitute for Mattins, "definite Church Teaching", the failure of "undenominational" Christianity &c!