The Henson Journals

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Friday, November 6th, 1925.

Religion is a powerful antiseptic, which preserves mummified customs that have long outlasted their usefulness, and otiose dogmas that have long lost their vitality.

Inge. 'Science, Religion & Reality' p. 349

I spent the whole morning in writing letters, & preparing a short address for the Conference tomorrow. I wrote to Lloyd–Thomas, thanking him for his edition of Baxter's Autobiography, of which he had sent me a copy. In the afternoon I walked round the Park, having as my companion Dr McCullagh, to whom I gave a copy of my 'Notes'. I learned from a paragraph in the "Church Times", that my article on "the Decline of Preaching" had appeared in the "Evening Standard". The Editor of the letters wrote to suggest that I should write on Inge's pronouncement in the newly–published volume on "Science, Religion, & Reality". Accordingly, I read through the said pronouncement, & found it amazingly clever, and quite superfluously irritating to the orthodox vulgar.

Angel Thelwall arrived by the afternoon train. She is unalterably childish.

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