The Henson Journals

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Friday, June 23rd, 1922.

I spent the morning in revising sermons &c in preparation for next Sunday and the Sunday following. Also I paid the wages, & several accounts.

My letter in rejoinder to Gore appears in the "Daily Telegraph". I think this is the first communication over my signature that has ever appeared in that newspaper. The degradation of the "Times" has gone so far that I feel reluctant to appear in its columns: and I think this feeling cannot be limited to myself, for the correspondence columns of that newspaper are not to be compared with those of the past.

In the afternoon Ella had a tennis party. The Shebbeares from Stanhope were among the guests. I had a good deal of talk with Shebbeare, who had just returned from a visit to Gore. He is a liberal churchman, who has been completely taken in by the pretence of tolerance & liberality, which is made by the modern "Anglo–Catholick". He seems to acquiesce in the notion of a "go–as–you–please" Church, ignoring the fact that the only condition under which such a Church could be justified viz: complete mutual toleration, is refused on principle by the Anglo–Catholick factions. It claims, not recognition as a permissible type of Churchmanship, but the sole & exclusive title to be recognized as Anglicans. "We are they that ought to speak: who is lord over us?"

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