The Henson Journals

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Monday, July 20th, 1925.

It would be easy to find tyrants more violent, more malignant, more odious than Louis XIV., but there was not one who ever used his power to inflict greater suffering or greater wrong: and the admiration with which he inspired the most illustrious men of his time denoted the lowest depth to which the turpitude of absolutism has ever degraded the conscience of Europe.

Lord Acton. 'History of Freedom. p. 49.

I wrote to the Editor of the "Evening Standard" consenting to continue my monthly articles, & allowing the fact to be announced.

After lunch Clayton and I walked round the Park, in an intermittent drizzle of rain. On our return I confirmed Mrs Dick in the Chapel. She was bred a Baptist, & immersed. Then Jimmie came to see me, and I turned him over to Clayton, for counsel as to his reading. He seemed eager to make a start with his new work. My intention is that he should come here as soon as he is free of his Railway, & read steadily under Clayton, & then have two terms at St John's, Durham. He would be ordained next Trinity, & have a two years' Diaconate.

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