The Henson Journals
Mon 18 April 1927
Volume 42, Page 55
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Easter Monday, April 18th, 1927.
The brilliant weather has continued. I had a 'heart to heart' talk with Ernest. He behaved well in rushing George Laws into Newcastle for an operation for appendicitis: and to that extent disarmed me: but I was insistent on the dies fatalis named in my letter. Thus my whole morning was frittered away.
The Park was crowded with holiday–makers, and presented a gay & re–assuring aspect: for they enjoyed themselves and behaved very nicely. Golf, football, and hockey were played: and the multitude of children rolled down the grassy slopes in limitless glee. But the dirty paper and orange–peel would move to tears even the rebel angels themselves!
Cardinal Bourne appears to have repeated at York substantially the same sermon as that which he preached in Sunderland in 1924. He was even more offensive in his assertions. Perhaps foolishly – for what does it matter what he, or any other liar chooses to say – I wrote a short letter to the 'Yorkshire Post', and sent the Editor a copy of my sermon on ''Continuity'', which I wrote in answer to the knave in 1924.