The Henson Journals

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Friday, July 10th, 1925.

I spent the morning in the Assembly, where we talked about the need for some restraint in the publication of nauseous trials. Then I lunched at his Club with Jack Boden, who is in some danger of developing into a sybaritic–Socinian, a type of "liberal churchman" which is not pleasant to contemplate. In the afternoon I joined the Bishops of Chichester, Gloucester, & Truro, in revising our draft of the 39 Articles. Then I went to the Athenaeum, & had tea. I wrote to George Nimmins, & then walked to S. Paul's Deanery, & dressed for dinner.

I dined at 81 Albert Hall Mansions with Lord Darling. The company consisted of mine host & Di, another young lady, Lord Muir MacKenzie & his daughter Mrs Clive with her son, a young fellow of rather heavy but not unpleasing appearance. It was a pleasant evening, though the conversation left in my memory no deposit of thought or phrase worth recording. I walked the whole way back to S. Paul's Deanery, & took rather more than an hour in doing so. There were many people in the streets, for it was a fine night: I watched them, & did not observe a single person the worse for drink, nor anything which could be reasonably described as ill–conduct. Surely this is very a notable & encouraging fact, & knocks the bottom out of Prohibitionist argument.

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