The Henson Journals

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14th Sunday after Trinity, September 21st, 1924.

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The clocks were put back last night, so that we had an hour of broad daylight in bed before getting up. I read Trevelyan's 'Early years of Charles James Fox', & was more than ever impressed by the author's combination of literary power, & relentless partisanship. He seems quite unable to understand how offensive the assumption of a monopoly of patriotism, wisdom, & virtue by the grasping and arrogant clique which George III broke up, must needs be to any candid & considering man. It enables me to understand better than before the mental agony & moral abasement which Trevelyan must have felt when for a brief space he was carried away from his party allegiance by Gladstone's Irish policy. To him, & men of his type, political party has all the authority which a Catholic acknowledges in the Church, and a Protestant in the Bible.

I celebrated the Holy Communion in the Chapel at 8 a.m. All our guests attended and communicated. They went away shortly after 10 a.m. to attend services in Durham Cathedral, & then to go back to Murraythwaite.

I wrote to George Nimmins: to Mr Thomas Reed thanking him for his gift of the reproduction of the Lindisfarne Gospels: and to Mr de Cowrey Hamilton acknowledging receipt of his poem.

Ella went with me to Long Newton, where I read the lessons & preached.

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