The Henson Journals

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Saturday, November 29th, 1924.

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Princes and Nobles live not always. You are not the Rulers of the unmoveable Kingdom, but of a boat that is in an hasty stream, or a ship under sail, that will speed both Pilot & Passengers to shore.

Baxter preaching before Charles II "My Life of Faith" p. 45.

I finished the Baxter sermon; and then received the dentist. Mr Wilton, the new vicar of Thornley, came to see me, & stayed to lunch. I walked in the Park, and put up a covey of five partridges. This is only the second time that I have started game in the Park since I have been living in the Castle. The two boys, Joe Bainbridge and John Nicholson, kept tryst, and Alexander showed them the Castle. May come to my study before going off, and I gave them each a Waverley novel – Joe had the "Fortunes of Nigel", & John "Anne of Geierstein". Is it really worth while to indulge an interest which must be transitory, and to evoke affections which cannot possibly hold? Ella and Fearne went to the play, and I busied myself in writing some overdue letters, and reading.

The small book – "Christian Beginnings" – by Burkitt is a convenient summary of critical results so far as the New Testament goes. It does not leave much foundation for the Christian Religion. Christendom is reared on an ash–heap of hypotheses, not on the Rock of historic Fact!

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