The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, January 26th, 1926.

It is a sin for a man sometime not to recreate himself: it is not only a sin for him to do a less good when he might and should do a greater, but it is also a sin for him to be about something, though a better thing otherwise, when he is called to tend a meaner matter: as it is a sin for a servant to be reading on a good book, yea on the Bible itself, when he should be serving in his Master's supper.

Gataker. p.188.

I frittered away the morning in writing letters & paying bills, & then, after an early lunch, motored to Middlesborough, and "opened" the Missionary Exhibition, which had been proceeding in the Town Hall. There was a considerable gathering of people. What a woefully squalid town Middlesborough is! & how low & surly the people look! The thought could not but force itself on my mind. Is it really worth while to make efforts in order to create in Asia & Africa these fine products of Christian Civilization? I returned to Auckland after the function. The weather which had been fine degenerated as the day drew to its close, & became blustering.

Pastor's History of the Popes arrived.

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