The Henson Journals

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Saturday, January 5th, 1929.

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I finished the Introductory Article to the volume of the Four Major Prophets, & sent it to Messrs Cassell & Co. It is poor hasty work, but in this evil time I can do no better.

Some months ago a publisher, Arthur H. Stockwell Ltd, asked for some of my old sermons, which he proposed to publish in a series he was projecting under the title "The People's Pulpit". I was foolish enough to send him eight sermons, for which he volunteered to give me the munificent sum of £10.! This afternoon the proofs arrived.

Lang asks me to stay at Lambeth for the Bishops' Meeting. It is civil of him, but I do not particularly wish to come under his roof. Yet it might well be thought churlish if I refused an invitation, which may be designed as a kind olive–branch, I mean, an indication that he desires me to remain in the inner circle: but do I desire to do so? I am divided in mind between a genuine wish to have no more to do with ecclesiastical affairs, and a feeling that it might be a failure of duty to indulge the wish.

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