The Henson Journals

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4th Sunday in Lent, March 30th, 1924.

Church–ladders are not always mounted best

By learned clerks and Latinists profess'd.

The exalted prize demands an upward look,

Not to be found by poring on a book.

Small skill in Latin, and less in Greek,

Is more than adequate to all I seek.

Cowper "Tirocinium" 1784

I celebrated the Holy Communions in the Castle Chapel at 8 a.m. After breakfast I wrote a series of letters including one to the new Headmaster suggesting that he should be ordained. Also, I wrote to George Nimmins and Jimmie Dobbie, to Ernest, & to the two girls, Penelope & Blanche, who are to be confirmed on Palm Sunday. In the afternoon I prepared notes for the sermon which I preached at Evensong in Trimdon Church. Ella went with me to this service. Pestle came in to supper, & I had some talk with him about his future. I offered to recommend him to Parry Evans in the event of Hunwick becoming vacant. He rather jumped at the notion. I took occasion to utter some cautions on the subject of "Anglo–Catholicism". He disclaimed any sympathy with the extremists; but, of course, there is no logical halting–point between moderate & extreme victims of the same fallacy. It is more a matter of temperament than of reason in both cases. The moderates always are beaten when the issues of conduct are brought into debate.

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