The Henson Journals

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Saturday, March 7th, 1925.

Confirm a child at twelve, & he neither understands it intellectually nor finds it an answer to any moral or mental need. Delay confirmation till sixteen, and you may have missed the opportunity of putting a boy in the way of finding God's help real just when he needed it most…I believe, therefore, from my heart that this age of about fifteen in the second year of Public–school life is, for Public schoolboys or girls, the right time for confirmation.

Revd H. Costley White, Headmaster of Westminster

'The spiritual life of the adolescent' in 'Education & Religion p179.

I received from Robin another very interesting letter. He certainly writes with ease, & has a pleasant epistolary style. Then I wasted the whole morning in a fruitless effort to make an actual beginning with the book. What has befallen my wits that I have become so helpless?

In the afternoon I walked round the Park with the dogs.

The Prime Minister's speech in the House of Commons last night was a notable performance, and ought to have a harmonizing effect on the country. Even the Labour men cheered him when he sate down.

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