The Henson Journals
Tue 27 October 1925
Volume 39, Page 301
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Tuesday, October 27th, 1925.
A people which is without a Bible in its mother tongue, or is restrained from using it, or wilfully neglects it, is also imperfect, or degenerate, or lifeless in its apprehension of Christian Truth, and proportionately bereft of the strength which flows from a living Creed.
v. Westcott. History of the English Bible. p. 3.
I paid my half–year's rates: and wrote a few letters. Then I read Westcott's History of the English Bible with a view to the lecture on Tyndale.
Jack Boden sent me a cutting from the "Daily Express" of Oct. 26th headed "Faith–Healers Attacked" containing nearly a column of notice of my book, garnished with a rather truculent picture of the author!
I walked round the Park during the afternoon with Beck. Canon Tuckey & his wife, and Shaddick & his wife, came to lunch.
Lilley & his wife with a certain Miss Fox, who chauffeured them, came here from Edinburgh, bringing with them a dog. I had a good deal of talk with Lilley, who has now to all appearance reconciled himself to living out his life in Hereford, from whence, on any reasonable principle of preferment, he ought long since to have moved to a larger sphere.