The Henson Journals

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Whit Monday, May 28th, 1928.

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Williams of Jarrow Grange writes to accept nomination to St Thomas's, Sunderland. The patronage of Jarrow Grange is Lord Northbowere's.

The Manchester Guardian contained a letter from the Bishop of Norwich on the Prayer Book Crisis, which induced me to waste the morning in a writing a reply.

The Park was filled with crowds of people mostly young attracted by some kind of a "Temperance" demonstration. The fineness of the weather made it sufficiently delightful to move about in the open air, & roll on the grass.

'The decrees of the Council of Trent are written in a Latin which, for the purpose, could not wish improved. The theologians of the new scholasticism, such as Melchior, Cano, Canisius & their successors, attached no small importance to a good Latin style. The surprising fact, therefore emerges that a tendency, which appeared for a long time to be given up to the worship of pagan ideals, & which had not otherwise succeeded in creating any enduring works, now at last, in the service of the church, exercised an influence which has outlived the ages'

Pastor. 'History of the Popes XVI, '29