The Henson Journals
Fri 28 October 1921
Volume 31, Page 18
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Friday, October 28th, 1921.
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The post brings me a handsomely bound copy of the "Roll of Service" of the University of Durham. It is a long roll of young men's names frequently marked by the asterisk which indicates that not service merely but service unto death was there rendered. Sir Charles Stawer sends a civil letter, thanking me for my Sunday's sermon to the Darlington sectaries & incidentally telling me that he is bringing out the "Westminster Gazette" as a morning paper on November 7th. No doubt there is a purpose possibly only half realized of "roping in" to the cause that dubious factor, the B. of D.!
Clayton accompanied me to Durham where I instituted Wykes to an honorary canonry; Pryke to S. Aidan's, S. Shields; Brigstocke to Horden; & the new Incumbent to S. Alban's, Heworth. We returned to Auckland for lunch. Warth, the new Vicar of St Luke's, Darlington, came to lunch.
Later, Mr Dunn, the School Inspector from Darlington, & Mr Capes, his assistant, waited on me in the matter of the school at West Rainton, where the foolish parson (Rawlins) is prepared to close the school right away, rather than carry out comparatively reasonable alterations.
Clayton and I motored to Darlington, where I dedicated a Mission Hall, which is to ^[illegible]^ be used for Divine Service until a church can be built and consecrated. This district of St Matthew, is cut out of the parish of St Luke, & is destined to become an independent parish. There was a lay congregation. Canon Cosgrave, the Rural Dean, and Drury, the Vicar of St Cuthbert's, came there Worth read the 2 nd lesson. I preached an old, dull sermon, which was hardly congruous with the occasion. But I had had no time to prepare a sermon, and had tried to adapt a discourse on the consecration of churches, which had been originally preached in Sunderland. After the service, we motored back to the Castle, giving Worth a lift as far as West Auckland. We arrived about 9.45 p.m. A letter from the Archbishop of York permits me to hope that the blind curate of Houghton–le–Spring will go out of the diocese.