The Henson Journals

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Thursday, August 13th, 1925.

Tony Chute and Jack Boden went off together after breakfast. I settled down to writing the necessary letters, and then wrote and despatched an article on the Thirty–nine Articles for the Evening Standard. This is the 6th that I have written. The subjects have been the following:–

1. The Church Assembly

2. The Parson in Parliament.

3. Disestablishment

4. The Coal Industry.

5. Tennessee

6. The Thirty–nine Articles.

Brooke Westcott played bowls, and had tea with me, while Ella, Fearne, & Fawkes went into Durham.

The "Times" prints a long communication from Lord Shaftesbury as President of the E.C.U. conveying to the Archbishop of Canterbury a Report on a recent sermon by the Bishop of Birmingham prepared by "the Theological & Liturgical Committee of the Union". It is a very insolent document, treating the Bishop as if he were an ignorant curate, & posing as peaceful Christians who have been goaded to exasperation by the unprovoked attacks of a heretical prelate! The Archbishop replies in a very civil, non–committal letter. He ought to have rapped them over the knuckles for their impudence.

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