The Henson Journals

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Monday, July 9th, 1928.

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I received a letter from the Headmaster of Westminster thanking me for my "memorable & most helpful Confirmation address". This pleases me because it comes from a man familiar with the conditions and problems of adolescence, & I am always in doubt as to the worth & suitableness of my addresses at confirmations. The particular address which I gave to the Westminster boys was substantially with that which I gave at Southwick on June 17th.

Wynne Willson brought a party of 4 ladies to be confirmed in the chapel. After service they all had tea.

Leonard Wilson, the son of the Vicar of S. Edmund's in Gateshead, writes to me from Cairo, to sympathize with me over the rejection of the Revised Prayer Book. He goes on:–

"I have read & reread your book of Ordination Addresses & find in them a stern incentive to self–discipline, & a nobler interpretation of my Ordination vows than I had understood before. To read those changes is to be humbled & to be shown how my own vows have been carelessly forsaken & denied, to wish almost that I had never been ordained to so great a dignity & such solemn service."

I think mainly I feel like that myself.