The Henson Journals

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Thursday, April 21st, 1927.

^[paragraph strikethrough]^ Fawkes writes to say that he is "delighted" to see my reply to Cardinal Bourne's "extraordinarily unseemly performance at York. I wonder that so astute a person should have chosen Easter Sunday for such a discourse." Then he gives a run to his favourite bonnet–bee: "I rejoice to see that you are 'the favourite' for Lambeth – if one may use a secular term." Well, well!!

^[paragraph strikethrough]^ In the afternoon I motored with Ella and Fearne to Staindrop, and there married William Horatio Sands Cumly Spurrier to Miss Fyfe. The parish church was thronged with friends, neighbours, and parishioners. We went to the house, & looked at the presents.

The Editor of the "Nineteenth Century & After" wrote to ask me to write an article on "the basis of agreement between the Churches", but I told him that I was unable to discover one, and that for the present the less said about Unity the better. Certainly, the effect of the much–vaunted Lambeth Appeal has been sufficiently disappointing to kill the enthusiasm of the keenest. The Non–episcopalians are polite but frigid: the Papists are rude and hostile. Beyond some hollow philandering with the Orientals, there is nothing to show. And I think that the domestic situation has been worsened. The Anglo–Catholick movement was directly concerned with defeating the attempt to get into touch with the Presbyterians and Nonconformists: and its success has necessarily emphasized & embittered the strife of parties within the Church of England. Prayer–book Revision adds a new cause of dissidence and conflict: & what the end will be none can tell.

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