The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, September 17th, 1924.

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Sykes sends me a pleasant little letter, thanking me for the sermon, which, he thinks, "will do a good deal of good". I prepared notes for this afternoon, and then motored into Durham, where, first, I called on Lazenby, and made the necessary arrangements for the Visitation. I shall be fortunate if the expenditure does not exceed £150. Next, I went to the Castle and licensed six curates, including young Westcott. Then we lunched with Wilson. After lunch we motored to Tanfield where I instituted Pestle to that Vicarage. There was a full church, a considerable attendance of the adjacent clergy, and a reverent service. After tea in the schoolroom, we returned to Auckland, arriving a little after 6.30 p.m.

That vivacious young egotist, Mary Webb, has married, and now calls herself Mrs Valentine Carlyle. She and her husband (a thin, mild, silent man) came here for the night.

It appears from the letters that have reached me that reports of the Sunderland sermon appeared in the 'Westminster Gazette', and in the "Morning Post". The Vicar of Downside writes inquiring where he can obtain a complete copy of the sermon. He, poor man, is hedged in by Papists. They are, he says, "in this parish numerous & powerful & wealthy. They have an abbey, & a large school for boys, &c., &c. I find the report of your sermon distinctly helpful and encouraging".

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