The Henson Journals

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Friday, October 16th, 1925.

The mind of a saint is above or below the present world.

Gibbon. Autobiography. p.17.

The woeful man who has resigned Newbottle wrote to pray me that he might be suffered to work in Tyneside, where he was known, & no explanations were needed, but I wrote in reply that this might nowise be granted, seeing that men would be led to think that his offence was but a slight matter. Later, I motored into Durham, and showed the letter to my Suffragan before posting it. I had tea in the Castle, and talked there with Stead, the Curate of Langley Park, who is restive & meditates returning to the colony from which he came. I fell in with Mead Faulkner in Palace Yard, & walked with him. He is still very debilitated. On returning to Auckland, I resumed work on Tyndale, & came across a hostile description of Bishop Turnstall – "still Saturn that so seldom speaketh but walketh up & down all day musing & imagining mischief – a ducking hypocrite made to dissemble" – which yet has the ring of truth about it. Arrowsmith came to dine and sleep.

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