The Henson Journals

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Saturday, November 3rd, 1917.

1188th day

I was horrified to read another announcement with a head–line in large type in the "Newcastle Journal" announcing that the Dean of Durham was about to be raised to the Episcopal Bench. It really is exasperating, & cannot fail to do me harm with the Durham people, who resent my implied readiness to desert them. I left Durham at 10.29 a.m. and arrived in Manchester at 2.12 p.m. Here I managed to obtain a taxi, and get out to Birch Rectory in fair time for the meeting of the Anglican Fellowship which I addressed on the "Church & State" Report. It was a very small company, but the discussion was intelligent and interesting. Parsons, who is one of the "Life & Liberty" Committee, spoke with some liberality, & seemed less conscious of the excessive episcopalianism of his colleagues than might have been expected. I had much talk with mine host, who is interested in psychotherapy, and has himself made some successful essays in faith–healing. He gave me rather an interesting account of Miss Maud Royden's retirement from the L & L Council. That lady appears to be moving out of the Anglo–Catholic system in which she was reared, & now tends to regard Bishops as of the "male esse" of the Church! The Bishop of Manchester is thought to have received a heavy snub at the recent meeting of the Diocesan Conference: but his Lordship does not himself share this view, &, in his Diocesan Magazine even expresses a measure of satisfaction at the conclusions reached in the Conference!

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