The Henson Journals

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Thursday, October 29th, 1925.

The Bishop of Glasgow & Galloway, in thanking me for a copy of 'Notes, takes occasion to send me a newspaper cutting of a letter by McClelland, the Minister of Trinity Congregational Church (where I am pledged to preach & lecture in April 1926) in which he sets for his (extremely heretical) notions of the Trinity. I replied that my preaching in the Church did not, & could not, imply my agreement with the minister's views. Nevertheless, I anticipate that trouble will grow out of my visit.

I motored to Sunderland, & opened a Palestine Exhibition. The secretary in charge told me that he had been in Kenya, & that the treatment of the natives was cruelly oppressive. I returned to Durham, & had tea with J. G. Wilson. Then, accompanied by Clayton & Wilson, I motored to Monkheseldon, & collated the Rev. J. A. Little to the vicarage of the united parish. The Church was crowded. I thought it well to allude to the long delay in filling up the incumbency. Hicks, the self–sufficient & tiresome churchwarden, was much in evidence to Clayton's exceeding annoyance, but everything went well enough. On my return to Auckland I found a letter from Abp. D'Arcyacknowledging in terms of emphatic approval my gift of the 'Notes'. But he, like Lilley is a flatterous Irishman. Still he is an eminent man, & there was no reason why he should have written so approvingly if he didn't approve.

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