The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, September 5th, 1916.

764th day

Cunningham went off to Newcastle, and I made a start on the Diocesan Congress Paper on "The Social effects of the War" – a foolish subject but the Bishop's choice.

The "Times" gives a finale to the correspondence on the Somme films in a leader expressed somewhat hostilely towards me! Yet I remain strongly persuaded that I am right. There is a well–known episode in the life of David which may illustrate my view. Why could not David drink the water from the well at Bethlehem which the three mighty men had procured for him at the risk of their lives? Yet all the world holds him to have acted finely: "He would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the Lord. And he said, Be it far from me, O Lord, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of the men that went in jeopardy of their lives? Therefore he would not drink it". Lady Stewart, Mrs Soltau–Simmons, & Mrs Bell came to lunch. I walked with Logic: & attended Evensong.

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