The Henson Journals

[52] [sic, duplicated pages 52 & 53]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 1919.

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The morning post brought a letter from Mrs Humphrey Ward, enclosing a cutting from the Manchester Gn with her letter on the Revival of Tests. She asks me to take the chair if a meeting of protest against the 3rd Reading is arranged. I replied that, if a possible date were fixed upon, I would do so. Her opposition is not likely to attract much support from the rank & file of churchmen who, however divided among themselves, agree in fearing & disliking "Latitudinarians". Nor is it likely to strengthen my position in the diocese or in the country to appear publicly in association with Mrs Humphrey Ward: but noblese oblige: I cannot refuse an appeal from those who are standing for a large tolerance of theological variation.

I wrote to Gilbert, my Godson Herbert Nicholson, & Aleck Beechey. Then there was a meeting of school inspectors, which began at 12.30 p.m. and, with a brief interval for lunch, went on till 3p.m. I walked for an hour: then ran through Leckie's Memoir of Dr Forrest, & wrote to thank his sister for sending me a copy. After dinner I presided at a meeting of the Y.W.C.A., and listened to an oration from Miss Picton Turberville.

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