The Henson Journals

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Saturday, June 28th, 1919.

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I wrote something about the Peace to serve in lieu of a sermon at Eton tomorrow. Then I paid my reckoning at the Hotel, and picked up Ella in Little Dean's Yard, and went off to Paddington. We arrived at the Headmaster's House about 4 p.m., and went to look at the Eton & Winchester Match. The visitors triumphed, but it was a good match. On the field I saw Lord Powis, John Murray, Babington Smith, & others. Buff Murray, looking robuster than of old, was there. She has had great experiences as a transport driver in France. Neville Talbot, a young giant who has done excellently as a chaplain in France, is staying here. We had some talk before going to bed. He displays his father's characteristics of candour in feeling and purpose with mental confusion & rigidity of religious attitude. That is the fault also of Oliver Chase Quick, whose book "The testing of Church Principles" is much applauded by the Talbots & their following. I finished reading it this morning, & was much struck by the author's evident desire to be thoroughly open–minded, and his evident inability to escape from the narrow convictions in which he has been reared. He also, like the Talbots, father & son, possesses that fecundity of phrase–making which tends to conceal from them both their dearth of ideas, and their immobility of attitude.

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