The Henson Journals

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19th Sunday after Trinity, October 14th, 1917.

1168th day

I walked with the Bishop to the Cathedral for the Celebration at 8 a.m. The Lady Chapel looked very beautiful in the morning light. The Bishop was the Celebrant, & took the North End. I noted that the acoustics of the building were excellent. Everybody went to church except me. I went to my room, & wrote a letter to the "Times" asking for some explanation of the summoning of the Representative Church Council to meet in November, after the meeting in July had been cancelled in deference to the expressed wishes of 4/5ths of the members. The Committee of doctors came to lunch. The service at 3 p.m. was in S. Luke's Church, and was well–attended. I preached from the words, "He endured as seeing Him Who is invisible". The Offertory amounted to over £46, which was nearly twice the amount collected at last year's service. We had tea with Dr Hamilton, & then called on Dr Glyn, who occupies the house in which Gladstone was born. I accompanied the Bishop to S. Margaret's, Prince's Road, where he preached for the S.P.G. The Vicar, Bell Cox, was once regarded as an extreme "Ritualist", but is now far outpassed by the Romanizers. Darbyshire, the Vicar of S. Luke's, came to supper, with his sister. Lawrence Holt also came. The Bishop had asked him at my request. He had been at this afternoon's service. The general opinion seems to be that the service was successful both in attendance and in itself.

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