The Henson Journals

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Saturday, January 24th, 1925.

No one has more doubts than he can carry: the way of life is not found to stop and come to an end in the midst of a volcano, or on the edge of a precipice. Dangers occur, not from the disclosure from any new, or hitherto undiscovered, facts, for which, as for all other blessings, we have reason to be thankful to God; but from our concealment or denial of them, from the belief that we can make them other than they are; from the fancy that some a priori notion, some undefined word, some intensity of personal conviction, is the weapon with which they are to be met.

Jowett. 'The Interpretation of Scripture'. p. 445.

I wrote to Geoffrey Fry about the division of the "split" patronage, enclosing my schedule of a division of the livings. Then I read until lunch, after which I motored to Durham in order to officiate at Captain Apperley's burial. The service was held in St Oswald's Church, and the interment was in Bow cemetery. After the funeral I returned to Auckland.

The eclipse of the sun, which took place this afternoon, could not be 'observed' as the day was cloudy and wet.

I wrote to Sir William Bragg thanking him for his book, "Concerning the Nature of Things": and to Mr Justice Sankeyy, thanking him for his 'King's College Commemoration Oration'.

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