The Henson Journals

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Saturday, March 21st, 1925.

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There was a considerable fall of snow during the night, and when morning broke the sun shone from a cloudless sky on a wonderland of beauty. Geordie and her Austrian Countess took their departure by the early train.

The morning papers contain long obituaries of Curzon with his portrait.

I worked at the Book, and wrote most part of a chapter, but woefully poor stuff.

After walking in the snow for an hour I wrote to Brilioth thanking him for his book on the Oxford Movement. It is a creditable piece of work, & indicates vast industry & considerable intelligence. The volume is adorned by an Introduction by the Bishop of Gloucester, in which the Movement is absurdly magnified. Headlam is a strange creature, so dogmatic, & in some directions so borné, and yet breaking out into unexpected vagaries of liberalism now & again: a man better for a friend than an enemy, though infinitely trying in both characters.

I "ran through" S. Augustine's Confessions with the object of noting anything that could illustrate his attitude towards illness. He mentions his own sickness in boyhood, & later: speaks of a friend's sickness & death, & describes his mother's death after 9 days of illness, but never alludes to any healing power in the church, or any incompatibility between sickness & Christianity.

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