The Henson Journals

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Saturday, October 6th, 1928.

The notion that I would adopt as the title of my 2nd Charge, the motto of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, 'Nec tamen consumebatur" [nothing however will be achieved].

We left Carlton–on–Trent at 11 a.m., & motored to Auckland Castle by way of Doncaster, Boroughbridge (where we lunched at 'The Three Arrows'), Catterick & Piercebridge arriving at 3.30 p.m. Then I fell to work on the letters, which contained little of interest & nothing of importance.

That queer crank, the "Communist Catholick", whom I first learned of from Rashdall, writes to me in terms of warm approval of my Congress sermon. He claims me as an ally, though unconfessed, of "Copec".

"While regretting that you adhere to a somewhat critical attitude towards COPEC, I cannot but feel that you are contributing powerfully, along independent lines, towards the creation of such a spirit and outlook as COPEC (at any rate , as I understand its principles and objects) is concerned to strive for. I think, therefore, that the adherents of that movement & of such bodies as The League of the Kingdom of God, may well recognise in your Lordship – at least as regards the main fundamentals – a de facto, if unacknowledged, ally."

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