The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, June 6th, 1928.

A chilly uncomfortable day, tending to rain. I had a 'bad night', & felt woefully inapt all day. However, I spent the morning in writing a sermon for the County Choirs Festival. In the afternoon I motored to Durham, and confirmed rather more than 200 persons in the Cathedral. Before the service I had an interview with Dawson about his acceptance of the Sunderland Rectory. He makes it turn on my allowing £100 per annum of the Sunderland money which I hold in trust for the parish, to be granted to him so long as the pension (£210) is payable to Pater out of the income of the benefice.

The 'Times' reports that Ernest Pearce has been elected an hon: Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford. Is that a personal, or a diocesan compliment? Has the Bishop of Worcester any official connexion with the College?

There is an important letter signed by the Master of Trinity, and 18 other Cambridge magnates in favour of the Revised Prayer Book. They say significantly:–

"The rejection of the Measure by Parliament would in these circumstances gravely affect confidence in the spiritual independence of the Church as by law established."

This ought to set some people thinking.