The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, July 31st, 1917.

1093rd day

I read another Gifford Lecture before breakfast. It is wonderfully comforting to find an admirably written philosophic justification of the assumptions of one's own theological position! If I were beginning life again, I would go deep into philosophy, & specialize in the Study of Comparative Religion. History is too rapidly becoming an affair of documentary specialists. I attended Mattins, & then made an attempt to write a sermon for next Sunday, but with no success, for I am not really clear in my own mind as to what I ought to say. I attended Evensong, & tried the experiment of a hymn. The piano from the Song School had been brought into the Gallilee [sic], & the Precentor played. A lieutenant from the Headquarters at York came to make a report on our buildings with a view to their occupation by the military if necessity should arise. I dined with the Mead–Falkners. He is in a more cheerful mood, but could give no definite reasons for his optimism.

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