The Henson Journals
Sat 3 March 1923
Volume 34, Page 153
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Saturday, March 3rd, 1923.
It is not an accident that absolute nationalism came to its climacteric in Germany, where Protestantism began. For Protestantism, without ever intending it, as an unexpected by–product of its fight for spiritual liberty, helped to break up Western Europe into nations, where nationalism absorbed the loyalty of the people. And now that little tiger–cub we helped to rear has become a great beast, & its roaring shakes the earth.
v. Fosdick l.c. 182
The weather was mild: the sun shone benignantly: there was a feeling of spring in the air.
Clayton and I motored to Sadberge, picking up J. G. Wilson in Darlington. I instituted the new Rector, Williams; and the Archdeacon inducted him. Several neighbouring incumbents attended the service. The parish church is a mean modern building infamously ventilated. I was nearly asphyxiated, I returned to Auckland after the service.
Neville Talbot, the Bishop of Pretoria, sends me a book that he has just published called "The Returning Tide of Faith". It is described on the cover as "a complete statement of the Christian Faith in a form which is not only arresting & practical, but entirely intelligible to the non–theological reader". Well, well!