The Henson Journals

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Monday, October 26th, 1925.

The weather was stormy and very wet. I devoted the morning to writing an article for the Evening Standard, taking for my subject 'The decline of Preaching', a subject suggested by the Archbishop of Canterbury's sermon at the recent Church Congress. This article I finished, & sent off to the Editor.

After lunch I went in to Durham, and presided at a meeting of the Church Building Board. After this was over, I had tea with the Bishop of Jarrow, and discussed with him some diocesan business. A young man named Unwin, a student in St John's College, came to see me with a view to being accepted as a candidate for the Advent Ordination. I was favourably impressed by him. Then I returned to Auckland, and wrote a letter of condolence to Lady Struthers, whose husband's death is reported in today's issue of the Times. He was no more than 68 years old, but he had been failing for some time past, and I was not altogether surprised to hear of his death.

I received a certain number of polite acknowledgments from the bishops to whom I had sent copies of my "Notes on Spiritual Healing". But they make no comments worth my heeding, being no doubt too fearful of committing themselves! Bishops are a timorous crew at best. Mostly they know too little to dare to have opinions of their own on any subject.

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