The Henson Journals

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Monday, April 19th, 1926.

I spent much time in typing the Brighton Sermon which I wrote last week. It is rather "a thing of shreds and patches." Then I spent an hour with the dentist. Knight came to lunch. He told me that the Editor of the Times had referred to him the letter of the four "Liberal" Oxonians who find the present subscription a bar to their Ordination: and that he had counselled the rejection of the document. I showed him what I myself had written to the Bishop of Liverpool and Streeter. I gave him my copy of Scrivener's edition of Codex Bezoe. Nearly a quarter of a century has passed since I bought it. Then I was sufficiently interested in textual criticism to desire to make myself acquainted with its method & argument. Now the whole subject bores me dreadfully! Bishop Wood came to see me. He had never seen this house before, and was interested by it. I gave him a copy of my "notes on Spiritual Healing". Jimmie Dobbie came to dinner.

I paid into the account of the Barrington Fund in the National & Provincial Bank the sum of £300 sent to me by the Catholic & Apostolic Church for the benefit of the poor clergy.

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