The Henson Journals

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Thursday, September 29th, 1921.

"The Lord's divinity was from the first as fixed an axiom of Christianity as the unity of God, while his humanity was plainly declared by the original apostolic testimony, and both together were necessary to give reality to the Incarnation: It remained to reconcile this view of the Lord's Person with the first fundamental principle of the unity of God."

Gwatkin. Studies p. 5.

I worked on the Congress Sermon most of the day, & finished it. Laws, the gardener from Colonel Carter, Colton House, near Rugeley, came to see me, & I undertook (if his reference was satisfactory) to engage him on a weekly wage of £3, with cottage, coals, & light. He would be ready to undertake his duties on November 1st next.

The Spooners arrived on a short visit. He has resigned the Archdeaconry of Maidstone and the Canonry of Canterbury, and now resides in Oxford.

Armstrong, aged 75, Bursar & prospective Provost of Queen's College, Oxford, has engaged himself to marry his type–writer, a young lady of 23! Oxford is scandalized: &, indeed, the arrangement doesn't look pleasant.

The "Times" reports the death of Mrs Gee, wife of the Dean of Gloucester. This was not altogether a surprize, for she had been ailing for some while past.

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