The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, January 5th, 1921.

"O Lord, I beseech Thee, make me to remember how much more than other men I have need to call upon Thee. My charge is great, & my strength little: O give grace to come often before Thee, & ask that help, which Thou are readier to give than I to ask: through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Laud.

A hostile letter in response to my Message to the Miners arrived. It is conceived in the heavily sarcastic vein, & raises the old party cries to provoke prejudice. Its only interest lies in the fact that it represents the line of commentary which is being adopted by the opponents of peace. For their purpose, I doubt not, that line is well chosen.

I read through Bishop Butler's sermon before the House of Lords in Westminster Abbey on Jan. 30th 1741, and decided to preach on the same text there on Jan. 30th 1921. "Not using your freedom as a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God".

After walking in the Park for an hour, I wrote my letters, and also paid some accounts including £125:4:4 for paperhanging &c &c in the Castle. The cost of my incoming steadily mounts.

Rather to my surprise the "Times" has a leading article strongly supporting the suggested appointment of Lord Reading as Viceroy of India. Surely it is not merely "anti–Semite" prejudice that makes the notion of Jew in that great place repugnant to me.

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