The Henson Journals

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Saturday, April 16th, 1927.

Another brilliant morning, and quite warm.

The post brought no letters, but 8 more volumes of the Loeb Classical Library, viz.

1. Plutarch's Moralia

2. Cicero, Speeches

3. ", Insculan Disputations

4. Aristotle, "Longinus" Demetrius

5. Hippocrates, vol. iii

6,7 Polybius, The Histories, vols. V & vi

8. The Geography of Strabo, vol. iv

These volumes, which now fill more than two shelves, will provide sufficient reading for the consolation of my senility if it be prolonged!

Somebody sends me a violent Protestant newspaper called 'The English Churchman', from which I learn that Fisher Ferguson, Vicar of Collierey was one of the Orators at a meeting in the Protestant Hall, Halifax, gathered in connexion with the Protestant Parsons' Pilgrimage. The publicity and applause are attractive to an unknown and unregarded clergyman, not sufficiently educated to realize the preposterous absurdity of his whole attitude.

I wrote to William, assuming that he would receive the Holy Communion tomorrow in Johannesburg. But, indeed, the assumption was based less on belief than on hope. His fortnightly letters have been ominously destitute of any reference to religion or to the Church.

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