The Henson Journals

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Friday, January 6th, 1928.

Noel Storr went off by an early train, & his sister by a later.

I spent the whole morning in writing a review of Dick Sheppard's absurd 'prophecy', "The Impatience of a Parson". This with the Archbishops' Letter and my Sermon must suffice for the 'Bishoprick'.

The wind was violent until the evening. A tree by the bank of the Gaunless was blown down.

I received, and declined, a proposal that I should write the article on "The Church" in the new edition of the Encyclopoedia Brittannica.

Wilfrid Watson, the Ordination Candidate from Shildon, who is now at S. John's, Durham, came to see me. He was 21 years old yesterday. I gave him a copy of "Godly Union & Concord", which I happened to have by me.

I read with much interest the book which Derry gave me at Christmas – 'Pascal: the Man and the Message' by Roger H. Soltau M. A. Formerly Scholar of Pembroke College, Oxford'. I had never heard of the writer before. He writes well, and, from diverse introductions, I should surmise that his point of view was that of a liberal–minded Anglo–Catholick.