The Henson Journals

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Thursday, July 3rd, 1919.

I wrote a short sermon for the Cathedral next Sunday, incorporating as much as possible of the Eton discourse.

The 2nd reading of the Enabling Bill was carried by 130 to 33 after a debate which was on the whole disappointing. But the necessity of amendment was generally admitted. Neither Burge nor Russell Wakefield spoke, so that the episcopal opposition was limited to Knox, who was not at his best. Pollock took a more independent attitude than I had dared to hope. The Lord Chancellor was fairly complaisant, & promised that the Government wd find time for the Bill.

I presided at a garden meeting at Barton House for the Missions to Seamen

Ella returned from Shropshire in the course of the afternoon.

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