The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, January 2nd, 1924.

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Peace hath her victories

No less renown'd than War; new foes arise,

Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains

Help us to save free conscience from the paw

Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw.

Milton, 1652

The warmth of the weather last night was uncomfortable. I could not sleep, and felt the fact throughout the day. I wrote letters, & worked at a sermon for next Sunday. I received letters from Lord Carson and the Dean of Westminster thanking me for my letter in the "Times": also, the Editor of the "Nineteenth Century and After" asked me to write an article on "Reunion". The "Times" publishes a statement from its correspondent in Rome, which must needs be annoying to the Archbishop since it categorically denies that the Pope had any official "cognisance" of the conferences at Malines. It was specifically on the understanding that the Pope did so far countenance the venture that his Grace went into it. Cardinal Mercier must be called upon for an explanation, for he was responsible for misleading the Archbishop.

Ella, Fearne and Ernest went to a dance at Rokeby, leaving me to entertain the Smiths!

The "Guardian" has a leading article filled with sycophantic adulation of the Archbishop.

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