The Henson Journals

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Saturday, January 20th, 1917.

901st day

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I presided at a Chapter meeting. We elected Mr Hudson Barker, the Vicar of Consett, to be Vicar of South Shields, in succession to Canon Roberson, now Vicar of Norham on Tweed. Also, we voted a second donation of £10 to the fund for financing the Dictionary of Patristic Greek, which Turner is running. Also we decided to 'meadow' the grass in the College, and to employ the gardeners in growing vegetables in the land bordering the choirboy's playing field. We held the audit of the College accounts immediately after the Chapter Meeting. Sir John & Lady Barran arrived at tea–time and we had much talk. There came to dinner Colonel Herne, Captain Slade, & Miss Christopher. The Culleys and the Hughes came in afterwards, and 'discoursed sweet musick'.

I sent in notice to the Prolocutor of the following resolution:–

"That this House regrets that the large and most important subject of the Relations of Church and State should have been brought before the public during the War, when adequate consideration of it is wholly impossible, and could not accept without grave modification the proposals contained in the Report of the Archbishop's Committee on Church & State as forming a satisfactory basis for the future relation of Church and State in England."

Proposed by the Dean of Durham

Seconded " " Dean of Manchester

The form of this Resolution included some suggestions from Bishop Welldon, which had the effect of mitigating the censure on the Report which I had desired to express.

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