The Henson Journals

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Friday, June 5th, 1925.

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I celebrated the Holy Communion in the Chapel at 8 a.m. but with much physical discomfort through giddiness. Perhaps, the sudden heat has been too much for me. The five candidates communicated.

The 'Yorkshire Post' announces that the Bishop of Peterborough has 'promulged a diocesan rule' that the age for Confirmation is to be twelve, and that, for special reasons, he will accept candidates at ten! And he is an Evangelical bishop! I wrote to ask for an explanation.

I walked round the Park in the afternoon. It looks most beautiful. I picked up Robert Bothwell, aged 20, a chauffeur, earning £2 weekly, & not contented with his job: a pleasant lad, & aspiring to emigrate to Canada.

Davison gave another excellent address to the Ordinandi. He is, perhaps, a little too much disposed to quote his own experience, but that is a venial fault. Moulsdale and Dawson Walker came to Evensong, & stayed to dinner.

The Editor of the Morning Post wrote to inquire whether I would accept Kidd, the Warden of Keble, as an opponent in the columns of his paper. I replied that I would not accept anyone who was not of equal rank in the hierarchy with myself.

The weather was bright, warm, and still.

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