The Henson Journals

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Thursday, November 10th, 1927.

The frost continues with slight snow fallings at intervals. I wrote letters, & sent off copies of "The Bishoprick".

Simpkinson, the Vicar of Stella, came to lunch. Then J.G. Wilson came, & motored with me to Barnard Castle, where I presided at a meeting of the trustees of the Bedelink benefaction. There was really no business, and the meeting was convened to please the old "benefactor", Richardson, who nears ninety, & is as suspicious as a leading flea! We had tea. Young Watson showed me photographs he had taken this year of a raven's nest in Teesdale. he says that there are ravens still in that district.

I wrote to those who had sent me Birthday congratulations.

Clement Webb has an excellent letter in the Times explaining why he, as a member of the Churchmen's Union, dissents from the letter addressed by the Council of the Union to Barnes. He expresses a suspicion that the Bishop "does not know what the doctrine of Transubstantiation is".

"The Bishop is, I know, a very distinguished Mathematician: but there is no evidence that he is versed in the history of philosophical theology".