The Henson Journals

[47]

Monday, January 2nd, 1928.

A thaw has set in. The roads are very slippery. The Yorkshire Post publishes my sermon in full: the Times gives a considerable extract: & the Manchester Guardian a briefer report. It has at least the merits of strength & lucidity. The Archbishop of Canterbury was, of course, discursive and non–committal, Barnes pontifical & irritating, Headlam infallibly dogmatic. Lang, whose picture in cope & mitre adorns the Y. P., was more than commonly vague & oracular.

[Young came in response to my summons, & I showed him the letters about the dubious person who aspires to be his assistant–curate. He undertook to write at once, & cancel the provisional offer he had made.

Robin, Captain Cazalet and young Francis Vane–Tempest came to lunch, & afterwards were shown over the House. After they had gone, Ella and I walked for an hour in the Park. There was a wonderful sunsetting.]

The New Year's Honours list includes knighthoods for Grant Robertson, the Principal of Birmingham University, and Judge Greenwell. I wrote to congratulate both of them. [I wrote to Gilbert, & sent him the cutting from the Y. P. which contains the report of my sermon. Patrick Wild, a son of the late Bishop of Newcastle, came on a visit.]