The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, February 24th, 1920.

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The weather is again milder. On the whole the frost is to be regretted, for everything needs checking in the interest of the future. I went to the bank and invested Fearne's legacy (£ 100) in War Loan, i.e. I charged the Bank manager to effect the investment. I worked at the Lectures all morning, & sawed wood with William in the afternoon.

Ralph asks me to preach in S. Paul's on Sunday evening July 11th. I consented of course. It cannot be said that I hide my candle under a bushhell, when on two succeeding Sundays I preach in London during the Lambeth Conference: & at S. Paul's and the Abbey!

I had a brief note from the Vicar of Hatfield saying that he would come here on Thursday at 4 p.m. That interview will be extremely difficult.

Mrs Streeter arrived in order to speak at a meeting of the Y.W.C.A. So Ella & Fearne accompanied her to the Institute while I stayed at home & wrote to Ralph, Gilbert, & Baker–Wilbraham.

The latter sent me a pamphlet, full of pious platitudes of the neo–evangelical type, and setting forth a project for propagating these throughout the country. I gently blessed the platitudes, and brutally stamped on the project! How pathetic is this inextinguishable belief in 'societies' ! I suppose the pious fussing which goes to framing & starting them is as a pillar–bed for the uneasy conscience to repose on!

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