The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, May 20th, 1925.

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A dull morning followed by a fine afternoon & brilliant evening. The day like a genuine Christian matured into beauty, & was then most fit for earth when ripe for repose. In the morning I worked on the preface of my book. Miss Hill and her niece, an amiable plump damsel, came to lunch. Our host & hostess went off to the funeral of Mrs Baldwin, the Prime Minister's mother, and Ella & I motored for an hour through Droitwich. After tea, Ernest and I played bowls. The afternoon post brought me a proposal from the Editor of the Morning Post to write three controversial articles for his journal. They might be subsequently published, & he would pay a fee of fifty guineas. He writes: "I hope to obtain from the pen of one of the most prominent of the Anglo–Catholics a statement of their aims & objects. This wd be followed the next day by your answer, & so on, each replying to the other until the end. In this way you wd have the last word". I am not altogether indisposed to do this and Ernest thinks that I should: but I think I must stipulate that my opponent be one who, in my judgment, is a man of suitable standing & character to be dealt with on a basis of controversial equality by the Bishop of Durham.

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