The Henson Journals

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Friday, July 3rd, 1925.

Tell us not that ye will sacrifice to the Lord our God, if we will sacrifice to Ashtaroth or Melcom: that ye will read our Scriptures, if we will listen to your traditions: that if ye may have a mass by permission, we shall have a communion with good leave and liking: that ye will admit the things that are spoken of by the Apostles of our Lord Jesus, if your Lord & Master may have his ordinances observed, and his statutes kept. Solomon took it (as well he might) for an evident proof, that she did not bear a motherly affection to her child, which yielded to have it cut in divers parts. He cannot love the Lord Jesus with his heart, which lendeth one ear to his Apostles, & another to false apostles; which can brooke to see a mingle–mangle of religion and superstition, ministers & massing priests, light and darkness, truth and error, traditions and scriptures. No, we have no lord but Jesus: no doctrine but the Gospel: no teachers but his Apostles. Were it reason to require at the hand of an English subject, obedience to the laws and edicts of the Spaniard?

Richard Hooker. Sermon V. Sect: 7.

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As I feared, the spirit of political partisanship has prevailed against that of public duty. The result of the polling for the Chancellorship of Oxford University was:

Lord Cave.	987
Lord Oxford & Asquith.	441
Majority.	546

I spent the morning in writing letters, & paying bills. Chute came to consult me about the offer which he has received to have himself considered by Magdalen College for the position of Dean of Divinity. I could not but counsel him to go if the call came: but his departure will be a heavy loss to the diocese. Yesterday's post brought a letter from Graham White informing me that he felt constrained to go to the Mission field, & must therefore resign Dawdon. He also will be a loss to the diocese. The fates are hard on Durham now.

I motored to S. Andrew's, Tudhoe Grange, & collated the Revd D. W. Marsh to the Vicarage. There was a fair congregation, &, I think, everybody meant well.

After dinner I wrote to Jimmie, bidding him not to be discouraged, & suggesting that he should start reading with the object of being ordained at Trinity next year. That will serve for the first stage.

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