The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, June 20th, 1922.

Not to mention the multitudes who read merely for the sake of talking, or to qualify themselves for the world, or some such kind of reasons; there are, even of the few who read for their own entertainment, & have a real curiosity to see what is said, several, which is prodigious, who have no sort of curiosity to see what is true; I say curiosity; because it is too obvious to be mentioned, how much that religious and sacred attention, which is due to truth, and to the important question, What is the rule of life? is lost out of the world.'

Bishop Butler, 'Preface to Sermons'.

I resolved to re-cast the sermon I preached in Durham Cathedral, & make it serve for the Commemoration Sermon at Oxford next Sunday. This, and the correspondence, occupied the whole morning. In the afternoon, there were more letters, and then I played bowls with my William, beating him handsomely by 69 to 55.

The "Yorkshire Post" has a communicated article, very well written, on the "Anglo–Catholic" Conferences, coming out at the sound conclusion that Anglo-Catholicism did really amount to no more than Romanism minus the Pope. Attention is particularly called to the position of the Bishops, who as Vice–Presidents of the A.C. Conference, can hardly avoid accepting some responsibility for its teaching and methods.

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