The Henson Journals

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Saturday, October 15th, 1921.

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Caröe went off after breakfast. Sir Henry Craik writes to remind me that Dr Johnson held with me on the subject of the prayers for Divine Mercy in the Litany. I looked out the reference in Boswell. The conversation took place at Oxford on June 11th 1784. It is a question of feeling not of reason. There is, perhaps, no Christian type so far removed from the right Christian temper as the Plymouth Brother, who finds himself unable to use the Lord's Prayer because it includes a petition for forgiveness.

Clayton and I left the Castle and motored to Durham, where I presided at a meeting of the C.I.B. Committee, & incidentally caught a slight chill, which handicapped me subsequently. After having tea with Mrs Cruickshank – we motored to Sunderland, and put up in the very hospitable house of the Mayor (Raine). There came to dinner half a dozen of the leading citizens, among whom I was glad to see Mr Dease, who has interested himself considerably in the Blind, & was said to be disposed to misunderstand the case of the blind curate, Frost. I had some talk with him on the subject, and did, I think, succeed in shewing him that the truth was far other than had been represented to him.

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