The Henson Journals
Sat 2 September 1916
Volume 20, Page 416
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Saturday, September 2nd, 1916.
761st day
A beautiful day from beginning to ending. The Times contains three letters on the 'Cinema' question all hostile to me: & several rude things came to me through the post: also several letters of thanks.
Cruickshank sent me a note in which he says, "Your kindness and loyalty to your colleagues on the Chapter have ever been a notable characteristic of your life here". This is pleasant: but would the Archdeacon endorse it? Well: it is true, even if he wouldn't: so there! I wrote some portion of the Windsor sermon, taking for my text a very noble passage, Jeremiah ix. 23,24, to which Hughes called my attention. "Thus saith Jehovah, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man glory in riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth & that he knoweth Me, that I am Jehovah which doeth kindness, judgement, and righteousness in the earth: for in these things do I delight, saith Jehovah". This passage deserves to stand beside the famous oracle of Micah, as marking the 'high–water mark' of Old Testament Religion. These could not be paralleled elsewhere.