The Henson Journals

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Friday, June 19th, 1925.

The "Church Times" makes my last article in "the Evening Standard" the text of a rather abrasive leader headed "The Durham Bourbon". It will please many of the clergy. & possibly occasion another spate of rudeness.

I spent the morning in working at the Halifax sermon, and then, after an early lunch, went to Durham by train, and walked to Bede College, where I presided at a meeting of the Governors. Brayley [Braley], the new Principal, gave a rather lurid account of the state of the students, of whom there are 124, mostly in a grave state of relaxed discipline. He seems determined to work a reformation.

Ella, who had been opening a sale of work at Easington Colliery, picked me up after the meeting, & we returned to Auckland for tea.

The afternoon post brought a sensible pronouncement on Reservation for Worship – "Sane Catholicism, A charge by the Rt. Rev. A. C. A. Hall DD, Bishop of Vermont, 1925".. It is plain enough that the situation in the Protestant Episcopal Church of the U.S.A. is quite as perplexing ass that with which we have to deal. "The unauthorized introduction of this Roman practice is proving a divisive force among ourselves," says the American prelate.

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