The Henson Journals

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1st Sunday after the Epiphany, January 11th, 1920.

The warm weather continues, and in view of the coal shortage we must be thankful for it. I went to the cathedral and celebrated at 8 a.m. After breakfast I revised my notes for an extemporaneous sermon at Canon Pyon from Rom: XII.I "I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service." In a hurricane of wind and rain I motored to the parish, & preached to about two score people. Afterwards I had some talk with the churchwardens in the vicarage, and was assured that the parish was admirably worked, & would resent nothing so much as the eviction of their beloved vicar!! I also had some talk with the vicar's wife, on whom I urged the duty of her husband's resignation. She said that he had decided to resign, but had not fixed the date.

I preached at Evensong in S. Nicholas's Church – a structure of which the hideousness is almost incapacitating for worship. It has no redeeming utilities, for its acoustics are bad, and its arrangement by no means convenient. Wynne–Willson's boys, Jack & Sandy, escorted me home.

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