The Henson Journals

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Feast of Epiphany, January 6th, 1919.

I sent what I had written to Major, perhaps foolishly, but, having promised him a contribution, I did not care to refuse it. I went to the dentist, but he did nothing. Then I sawed up wood for an hour. Lillie walked with me after lunch. He is an interesting & stimulating companion.I read through Bethune–Baker's "The Faith of the Apostles' Creed", with great approbation, which I expressed in a letter to the Author. He sets out with much force the position which I have maintained for years past. It is a happy coincidence that his little book should appear together with the Bishop of Ely's "Belief and Creed" to which it provides the effectual antidote. There is something significant & suggestive in the spectacle of two Cambridge scholars of recognised eminence, dealing with the same material & coming to diametrically opposed conclusions. That spectacle alone is enough to disprove the rigid position of the orthodox. It is a curious circumstance that the two academic bishops, Oxford & Ely, should be the protagonists of obscurantism! The Congregational Minister, Bowen, called on me. He had seen Wilson in Manchester & was greatly impressed by his leonine head & irresistible smile. Eckett came to arrange about the "Emergency" work, which Norcock resigns: and Wynne–Willson came to do the letters. Thus was frittered away another day.

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