The Henson Journals

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Friday, July 17th, 1925.

My Lord of London by experience feeleth and seeth the marks and bounds of these good sprights which, but for his toleration had been supressed 5 or 6 years ago, and had prevented all this unquietness now taken, and both his reputation better saved and my poor honesty not so foully traduced.

Archbishop Parker.

The words might be fitly used by the present Primate of the present Bishop of London. Yet the Church Times has a fulsome paragraph about him! This must surely make the cup of humiliation overflow.

I worded at the Bradford Memorial Sermon for Darlington. At 5 p.m. I instituted Williams to the perpetual curacy of Cockerton in the Chapel. He & his wife came to tea. They hail from Australia, where she had received the imposition of Hickson's hands, but without effect on her blind eye! He seemed more favourably disposed towards the faith–healer. I motored to Ingleton, & instituted Suthrien to the Vicarage. The little church was filled with parishioners, and there was a good muster of Suthrien's clerical friends. J. G. Wilson stayed the night.

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