The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, September 29th, 1925.

I felt very sore and bruized in consequence of my fall. During the morning I wrote letters including one to Gamble, who had written to ask for my "Notes on Spiritual Healing". I sent him the proof. From "John O'London's Weekly", I received the proof of my fifty–guinea article on 'Religion and Science'. It is certainly not worth the money!

There was a great gathering of the Mother's Union in Bishop Auckland, at which Ella played her part. A number of Israel's Matrons came in to lunch; among them the principal speaker, a dominating female named Mrs Boas, who claimed to have met me in Oxford 40 years ago! I hate reminiscences which occasion familiarity without creating sympathy or confidence!

I took my constitutional in the Park with Dr MCullagh. He says that he saw two kingfishers in the Wear last week. What would they find to eat in that polluted stream?

My letter on the Abbé Portal's statements about the Malines Conversations appeared in the Times. It reads like the echo of a distant past, so completely have all ecclesiastical interests been submerged by the rising tide of secular anxiety. Yet since we have to tread the tiresome road of ecclesiastical activity, the issue it raises is as present & pressing as ever.

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