The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, December 29th, 1925.

The weather was mild and blustering, not favourable to work. I laboured at the Article, but not at all to my satisfaction. Is it the effect of advancing years that my brain is so reluctant, & my composition so slow and halting? I suffered so much from the tooth ache [sic] that I betook me to the dentist, who patched me up, & arranged to remove the offence on February 1st. Then I looked in at the Edgar Hall, where the Rural Dean was entertaining the children of the Deanery. Lord Stamfordham sent me a civil letter thanking me for my book, which, he said, interested him the more as a friend of his had fallen under Hickson's influence. Lord Shaftesbury, as President of the E.C.U., writes impudently to the Times, declaring what course his precious society is taking in Birmingham, where it appears that a kind of informal schism is being organized! And this is Catholicism!

Vernon Storr writes:– "I see in his pamphlet on Reservation. Father Bull says that it is the unbelief of the bishops which makes them refuse to sanction the Cult: & that if in the Revision settlement this is not conceded, it is doubtful whether the Federation of Catholic Priests will obey."

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