The Henson Journals

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Friday, February 3rd, 1928.

Religion apart from the check of history runs to superstition. History divorced from religion lacks its ultimate solution.

Bacon. 'The Story of Jesus', p. 60

The 'Guardian' contents itself with a brief flatterous reference to my Cambridge sermon: the 'Church Times' prints it in full; the 'Church Family Newspaper' and the 'Record' ignore it altogether. It appears in the 'Cambridge 'Review', which also contains an effective reply by the Rev. E. Milner–White, an Anglo–Catholic, to Burkitt's mischievous article "On the Rejection of the new Prayer Book' which appeared last week.

I motored in to Durham with Ella, & presided at a meeting of the Preventive & Rescue Association. We returned to Auckland for lunch.

Later, I motored to Newcastle, & dined with the Northern Branch of the Royal Institute of British Architects at Tilley's Restaurant. I proposed the toast of the evening, & made a foolish speech. It was responded to by Mr Walter Tapper, the President of the Institute. A bad dinner & worse speeches! I got back to the Castle about 10 minutes before midnight.