The Henson Journals

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Friday, June 11th, 1926.

The mining deadlock continues with disastrous effects on the coal–using industries. Public opinion is showing signs of restiveness with respect to the Russian contribution to the Labour Funds. The contributions to the Funds from the British public are not likely to be large, while these sinister gifts from the enemies of Great Britain are offered and received.

Wm Spedding, the dentist, visited me, & took moulds for fresh plates: the jaws have changed so much during the last month that this has become necessary.

I read the Report of the Conference on "Reservation" held at Farnham Castle on the invitation of that vapid and verbose tactician my Brother of Winchester. I never realized so clearly before the gulf which severs the Church from the living World of men. The language of technical theology is a dead language, and the conceptions which it was coined to express are absolute conceptions. The answer to nothing in the modern mind. The whole discussion would have been more intelligible and relevant in the XVIth century than in the XXth. The only question which confronts us today in the Church of England, is whether or not the Church of England is worth preserving, or whether it had not better go to pieces, leaving fragments severally to "go to their own place", & cease from troubling.

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