The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, January 28th, 1920.

Many a modern minister in our so–called "free" churches has felt that he had no more sacred calling than to rid his church of the incubus of the creed. Pitching creeds overboard has become his most exhiliarating & his most sacred task.

Raymond Calkins in "Approaches towards Christian Unity".

I wrote a few letters, & then went off to London for the Bishops' Meeting. The weather was atrocious, & it made journeying melancholy. I drove to 49 Warwick Square, & deposited my bags. Then I went to the barber, & had my locks shorn. To the Athenaeum, & read Clemenceau's novel: it is full of effective satire on current life. I dined with mine host. Bridget and her husband were there. He has but recently returned from Riga. He takes much the same view of the European situation as Keynes & thinks that we must make terms with the Soviet government in Russia.

The Archbishop was in the Club. I could not avoid meeting him. He exhibited his usual courtesy, though he was evidently embarrassed. He said that the outlook was gloomy on every hand: & indeed gave reason for hope nowhere. I agreed, but could not help reflecting that it was odd that he should feel like that on the morrow of his notable parliamentary triumph. His Grace's difficulties are, perhaps, only now beginning since the Enabling Act has been passed.

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