The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, June 12th, 1928.

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Temple's pamphlet 'The Prayer Book Crisis' arrived. It is confessedly a hasty composition & very plainly discloses the fact. Thus, it is less effective than it might have been. I think I could have done something better.

The tide of Protestant fanaticism is rising steadily, and is mainly stimulated by Irishmen. Thus Lord Danesfort presided at a meeting of "League of Loyal Churchmen and Protestant Alliance", at which much rather grotesque excitement was displayed. "An aumbry with lamp and wafer, which was exhibited during the evening, was greeted with cries of 'Popery!' and 'Never!' when the meeting was told that the passing of the Revised Prayer Book wd legalize its use in the C. of E's Cathedrals & Churches." The Bishop of Norwich "said that he was stepping in & out of such meetings so that he might unite himself with the effort to reject the new Prayer Book with its hazardous risks, without holding himself responsible for views expressed by others which might not agree with his own". This controversy with limited liability has its conveniences.

Major Macfarlane–Grieve came to dinner. He gave me the 'Historical notes relating to dates of the Buildings of the different parts of Auckland Castle'. 1797.

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Articles in the Evening Standard: –

1925

1. The Church Assembly. April. 1925

2. The Parson in Parliament. May.

3. Disestablishment. June.

4. The Coal Industry. July.

5. Tennessee. August.

6. The 39 Articles. September.

7. "Spiritual" Courts. September

8. The Lure of Moscow. October

9. Conferences. October.

10. The Decay of Preaching. November

11. Religion & Science. December.

12. Religion in the Schools. December.

1926

13. Hideous Graveyards. January

14. A Tax on Betting. February.

15. Fanaticism & Childhood. March.

16. Parliament & the Church Assembly. April

17. Notes on Motoring & Motorists. April.

18. Spiritual Religion & the Church. June.

19. Class–consciousness v. Citizenship – July

20. Anglo–Catholicism (August)

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21. The Strength of Churches. August.

22. Pilgrimage. Ancient & Modern. September.

23. Concerning Slogans. October

24. Is this the Moment? November.

25. The Problem of Sunday. December.

26. Religious Intolerance 1780 – 1926. December

1927

27. How the Miner sees himself. January

28. Personal Habits & Partisan Principles. January.

29. Whitewashing the Inquisition March.

30. The Composite Book. April

1928

31. African Elephants. Jan.

32. Concerning Fanaticism. March.

33. King & Count Palatine. May.

I received payment at the rate of £20 for every article: thus the total amount received was £660: from which income tax & super–tax had to be deducted, leaving a net sim of about £500. Of this I expended £150 on the repair of Escombe Church: & the rest went in paying Jimmie's expenses at S. John's College in Durham.

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