The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, June 23rd, 1925.

Of all the Reformers, Luther was the least removed from the medieval way of looking at religion, and Zwingli had wandered farthest from it.

Lindsey. Hist. of Reformation vol.I. p.348

I packed up, & despatched to the publishers, the typed sheets of my "Notes on Spiritual Healing". Also I finished a précis of my Halifax sermon, and sent it to the Editor of the Yorkshire Post, with a covering letter. He will probably not publish it, but it is a precaution against inaccurate reporting. Mr Talbot, the outgoing Vicar of S. Aidan's, Annefield [sic] Plain, came to see me, & brought a memorandum as to the value of that benefice. I only half–believe the figures & statements! After he had gone, Clayton and I walked round the Park. On returning to my room, I began to read for my volume on the Reformation by starting on Stubbs's "Lectures in European History", 1519 – 1648. These will serve to get the broad lines of the subject before my mind, & they abound in obiter dictum which are very suggestive. But where the Reformation is concerned, Stubbs is not at his best. The impenitent Tractarian rather than the calm and erudite historian finds expression in his phrases and judgments.

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