The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, January 27th, 1925.

In 1689 Cotton Mather preached in Boston an elaborate "Discourse on Witchcraft", laying down that two proofs existed in the testimony of the Scriptures and in the evidence of men. Did not the narrative of the Witch of Endor speak unmistakably of the existence of this grievous offence at the present time? Were not the cases of Salem & Andores overwhelmingly proved?

Murray, Dublin University & the New World, p. 55

I received pleasant and cheerful letters from William and Frank Berry. After breakfast I started on the second Manchester sermon, & I worked until lunch time, after which Ella and I walked through the Park, & called on Dawson at the Lodge. He is a large jolly–looking farmer who was very civil & conversational. He was born, he said, in 1869, and well remembered when the Gaunless was a trout–stream. I questioned him about the cattle which he lost last year through "foot and mouth" disease. On the whole, I gathered that he was not discontented with the compensation he received.

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