The Henson Journals

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Thursday, September 11th, 1924.

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The reason why the national prohibition law is not enforced is that it cannot be enforced. The reason why it cannot be enforced is that it ought not to have been passed. In its attempted forcible interference with the food & drink & medicine of the people, it is a form of oppression to which a free people will never submit in silence.

Nicholas Murray Butler. April 29th, 1924.

My letter to Wynne–Willson appears prominently in the Sunderland Echo, and is reproduced in the Yorkshire Post. Evidently the Cardinal's attack has provoked some [5] feeling in the town. I succeeded in completing a sermon, which will please nobody, but I particularly desire, if possible, to prevent one of those local controversies in the press which degrade everybody.

Ernest and I walked in the Park with the dogs.

Clayton returned in the evening, in high spirits & evidently the better for his holiday.

The Papacy faces the Churches whom it alienated by its exorbitant pretensions in the spirit of a Rehoboan, meeting revolt with a larger claim. "I will add to your yoke".

The test of a Church is the kind of conscience it creates in its members. Contrast the welcome of the French clergy in England during the Revn, with the refusal of churches to our Chaplains.

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