The Henson Journals

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Friday, February 9th, 1923.

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A telegram from the Editor of the Manchester Guardian arrived to the following effect:–"Would you care very kindly write for us signed article on the general questions of preservation of historic dioceses like Winchester". A pre–paid form was enclosed. I wired an affirmative answer, & forthwith wrote an article, & sent it to the Editor with my compliments by express post. Then I fell to work on my Edinboro article. I was interrupted by Miss Coleman, who had a doleful tale to tell about the finances of the Rescue & Preventive Association. I undertook to see the Bishop of Jarrow, and promised that the quiet day should be held here in the summer.

Ernest, William, and I played bowls in the afternoon.

The 'Church Times' contains a long article on the Oxford Movement, which is now ninety years old. The author is a well–known Anglo–Catholic writer named Ollard. He pictures the movement as having been the fertile parent of everything that is best in modern England. His whole picture is almost grotesquely out of perspective.

Magee , the son of the famous orator, died yesterday at the age of 53. He started as an Evangelical but developed into an extravagant Ritualist. He nearly came to me as a curate in Barking, but D r Vaughan, under whom he was reading at the time, dissuaded him on the ground that I was too 'advanced' in my Churchmanship !

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