The Henson Journals

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Saturday, February 20th, 1926.

This sect of the Pharisees did not cease with the Jewish Church; it only lost its old name; it is still in being and springs now in the same manner from the gospel, as it did then from the law: it has the same place, lives the same life, does the same work, minds the same things, has the same goodness at heart, has the same religious honour & claim to piety in the Christian as it has in the Jewish Church: & as much mistakes the depths of the mystery of the Gospel, as that sect mistook the mystery signified by the letter of the law & the prophets.

v. William Law. Works. ix. 186

I made some preparations for tomorrow, & read some more of Pastor's "Popes". In the afternoon I motored to West Hartlepool, & there collated Lilburn to the Vicarage of St Oswald, which Tony vacated when he went to Magdalen. There was a large congregation, & a considerable muster of the local clergy. On the whole I was pleased with the service. I returned to Auckland after the function, stopping in Durham to have tea with Wilson. Lionel accompanied me. The weather all day was very mild, & at nightfall rain was falling.

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