The Henson Journals
Tue 12 October 1926
Volume 41, Page 200
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Tuesday, October 12th, 1926.
I finished the article, "Is this the moment?" and sent it in to the Editor of the Evening Standard. It is just a reply to the Spectator's article under the same heading.
Wykes, whom I ordained four years ago, came to see me, and I proposed to him that he should become curate–in–charge of the new "conventional district" which has just been formed out of Bishopwearmouth. I told him to see Wynne–Willson, and then, after considering the matter thoroughly, to tell me what his decision was.
Jimmie Dobbie came to see me, and took me for a walk in the Park. He expounded to me his difficulties about attending evening classes, because only in the evenings could he get into touch with the men &c. I yielded to his arguments & approved his proceeding on the plan originally contemplated viz: that he should take his degree in the regular course, & do his best to prepare for his Priest's Ordination at the same time.
Several letters arrived in consequence of my observations on the Industrial Christian Fellowship, & showed that there is much distrust of that society. I wrote several letters in reply.
Fawkes was taken by Ella to Stanhope, where they found Shebbeare entertaining the Ruri–decanal Chapter, which had been discussing the hackneyed but formidable subject of "Miracles".
Frank wrote to ask me to preach in College on All Souls Day, but I had to telegraph a refusal. On November 2nd I have undertaken to address the Ripon Diocesan Conference on Religious Education. But I could hardly have brought myself to preach in College, if I had been free of engagements. For I feel myself an exile from Oxford, & almost an outcast.