The Henson Journals

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Friday, January 16th, 1920.

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The post brought the "Edinburgh" with my article on 'The Church & Socialism'. It has the place of honour in the number. Also Longmans sent me £25 as my 'honorarium', very acceptable in these evil days. Ella & Fearne went off to Cheltenham in the car. Ernest went back to Oxford: and I attended the meeting of the new Diocesan Board of Finance. When that had ended, I walked for an hour, & then wrote letters & read until dinner. The Swedish Lectures "hang fire" terribly.

There is an interesting illustration of the attitude adopted even by Laudian Churchmen towards the Protestant Churches of the continent in the 17th century in Heylyn's Preface to the Edwardine Articles, which forms the Appendix to his History of the Reformation. He says that the Articles were put forth 'partly to declare that consent & harmony which was betwixt them (the Anglicans) and the rest of those National Churches which had made an open separation from the Popes of Rome'. It was local dissidence that the Anglican found intolerable, not divergence of polity. And on this point he found himself in agreement with the Protestant & Reformed churches everywhere.

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