The Henson Journals

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8th Sunday after Trinity, August 10th, 1919.

Mine host and I walked to St Michael's Episcopal Church for the morning service, at which I preached from St John VI. 57, 58. There was a considerable congregation, which listened with attention to the discourse. In the afternoon Ella and I walked to Carbeth, where we found a gathering of relations who had come together for tomorrow's function. Here we viewed the wedding presents, and had tea. Then we called on Lord & Lady Strathclyde, and had some interesting conversation until it was time to go home, & dress for dinner. I was concerned to hear that Sir Oliver Lodge's "Raymond" finds readers & makes converts in Scotland. It is a surprising, but assured, fact that eminent lawyers are easily persuaded to accept these anile speculations. Mine host speaks with decisive severity of Winston Churchill's unpopularity in mercantile quarters. He is more hopeful about the commercial outlook than I had expected. All the great shipping lines are building steamers in order to resist the great American effort to capture our shipping trade: & he thinks that we shall emerge victorious from this conflict also. The Americans do not take naturally to a sea–faring life.

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