The Henson Journals

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Low Sunday, April 19th, 1925.

Diogenes, surnamed the Atheist, answered him in Samothrace, who, shewing him in the temple the several offerings and stories in painting of those who had escaped shipwreck, said to him, "Look, you who think the gods have no care of human things, what do you say to so many persons preserved from death by their especial favour?" "Why, I say," answered he, "that their pictures are not here who were cast away, who are by much the greater number". Montaigne. 1. 50.

I celebrated the Holy Communion in the Chapel at 8 a.m. After breakfast Crawfurd went with me to Whickham, where I preached at Mattins. As we passed through Gateshead, we called on Brooke Westcott, to enquire after his wife and son. I preached an old sermon on Socrates and S. Paul, which was 'over the heads' of the people! We returned to Auckland after service. In the afternoon I walked round the Park with Crawfurd, and, on my return to the castle, wrote a long letter to Robin.

The 'Observer' announces the death of Rochfort Maguire, a quondam fellow of All Souls, whom once I knew and liked. A brilliant, enigmatic Sybaritic Irishman.

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