The Henson Journals

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3rd Sunday in Advent, December 12th, 1926.

The dissolution of the "Life & Liberty" association ought not to go unchronicled. I half incline to make it the theme of an Article in the "Bishoprick". An obituary notice might, not unfitly, take its place in a review of the year. And therein might also be brought a criticism of Lacey's Apology for the Anglo–Catholicks, and an estimate of the prospects of Prayer Book Revision. Add the formidable statistics of Ordination for the year, and a reference to the ecclesiastical effects of the great "Stoppage", and we have materials for a substantial contribution. Some notice must be made of Sykes' Life of Bishop Gibson.

I celebrated the Holy Communion in the Chapel at 8 a.m. There were 7 communicants.

Canon Maynard Smith, who is about to edit the Church Quarterly Review, wrote to ask me to write on Prayer Book Revision in the July issue of that journal. I replied civilly, but declining his request.

I started to read Bishop Lawrence's "Memoirs of a happy life", which he sent me a short while ago, and became so interested that I finished it. A good man, well–endowed by nature, financially "well–off", fortunate in all the circumstances of life – Lawrence took a cheerful view of the world.

I motored to Sunderland, had tea with Wynne–Willson, & preached in the Venerable Bede's church. The return journey was hindered by fog, but we got home safely about 9.30 p.m.

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