The Henson Journals

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Friday, April 8th, 1927.

The morning was brilliant. I dressed with my window wide open, so that I could enjoy the spectacle and hear the singing of the birds to the best advantage. I worked at the Glasgow Lecture, which grows ever duller as it extends! Has my right hand lost its cunning? Lilburn of St Oswald's, West Hartlepool, came to lunch, and afterward poured out the full stream of his parochial woes. His assistant curate Royale has left him, but left behind a legacy of Anglo–Catholick extravagance, which threatens to divide his flock! There is little enough of the Spirit of Christ in these fanaticks. After he had gone his way, I walked to Bryden's House, and saw Harold, who really seems better.

Lionel and I motored to Sunnybrow, and there I confirmed about 100 persons, two–thirds of whom were females, from the three parishes of Sunnybrow, Willington and Hunwick. The population is as follows:

1.	Sunnybrow	with 5,800 inhabitants
2.	Willington	" 5,358 "
3.	Hunwick	" 3,000 "
–	–	14,158

About 280 persons reached the age of 14 last year in those parishes. Hardly more than one–third of them were presented for Confirmation.

Miss Headlam arrived for a short visit.

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