The Henson Journals

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Ash Wednesday, February 14th, 1923.

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A heavy fall of snow during the night had covered the country with a pall of white. Snow fell during the day, but melted as it fell. In the evening there was a tendency to slush.

I worked at the Edinburgh Article. Mr & Mrs Lighton from Ross lunched here, and viewed the house. He, poor man, is quite blind: she is a Dutch woman. I motored to Darlington, and met Ella, who returned from witnessing Headlam's enthronement in Gloucester Cathedral.

Macmillan's sent me a considerable volume of "Anglican Essays", designed apparently as a counter–blast to the Anglo–Catholics. Its sub–title runs thus, "A collective Review of the principles and special opportunities of the Anglican Communion as Catholic and Reformed." It includes a series of "Extracts from the pastorals of the late Bishop Jayne." That prelate had an interesting history, for he developed out of Tractarianism into a position which might be described as liberal evangelicalism. His successor in the see of Chester will hardly welcome this volume, for he has made himself rather prominent as a patron and exponent of the Anglo–Catholic Movement. Bishop Paget is handicapped by a narrow tradition and a "suffragette" wife! It requires all his considerable qualities of character and temper to outweigh these disadvantages.

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