The Henson Journals

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25th Sunday after Trinity, November 18th, 1923.

I attended Mattins in the Cathedral, and received the Holy Sacrament. At 3 p.m. there was a meeting of the League of Nations Union in one of the Theatres. The Mayor presided, & the attendance was considerable. I made a speech which sounded dull, & seemed ineffective: but I was politely assured that it was neither. At Evensong I preached in the Cathedral to what was said to be an unusually large congregation, but I do not think, on a liberal estimate, there could have been more than 300 people. Something had gone wrong with the heating apparatus so that the temperature was Arctic.

I had some to talk with Quick about the Abp. Of C. whom for a while he served as chaplain. He said that his Grace was wholly destitute of any interest in abstract truth.

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