The Henson Journals

Tue 1 April 1924

Volume 36, Page 212

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Tuesday, April 1st, 1924.

For a Christian bishop to be devoting Lent to the study of Byron's poems and letters is a proceeding entirely congruous with All Fools' Day.

We motored to Sunderland, and in S. Luke's Church I confirmed 68 candidates. On the whole I was better pleased then I expected to be, for the parishes represented were some of the least satisfactory in the diocese.