The Henson Journals

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Monday, December 8th, 1919.

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I wrote to George. In a world of falseness it is something to maintain loyalty to one claim, even though it be of no account in the general scheme! [When Seafield, as chancellor, signed the engrossed exemplification of the Act of Union, he returned it to the clerk, in the face of parliament, with this despising & contemning remark, "Now there's ane end of ane old sang". Lockhart. ]

I instituted the two new prebendaries – Money Kyrle & Bartleet, – and the following clergy: G. Herbert Jones to Monnington–on–Wye, T. S. Dunn to Lydbury North, Cecil W. Morris to Halford with Sibdon Carwood; H. G. Burden to Sarnesfield, Allen Clover to Wolstaston [sic], B. S. Lombard to Cound. The prebendaries and Dunn lunched here. The two ministers – Bowen & Meredith – called to consult me about arranging a public meeting in support of the League of Nations. I said the time was inopportune, since America appeared to be backing out, and we were actually threatening a renewal of the war with Germany; but that presently we might perhaps have a meeting with advantage. These good sectaries think that the Kingdom of God cometh with – public meetings!

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