The Henson Journals

Fri 18 January 1929

Volume 47, Page 87

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Friday, January 18th, 1929.

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A thaw set in, & quickly changed the snow into slush – welcome but repulsive. I went on with the Preface all the morning: in the afternoon I motored to Durham, & presided over a meeting of the Board of Religious Education. Then I had tea with the Bishop of Jarrow, and discussed diocesan business.

I wrote to Thompson, Vicar of S. John's, Darlington, offering him Consett, which Rainbow had declined.

Dr Maclean writes to thank me for the copy of "Church & Parson in England" which I sent him as a Christmas gift. "I have one little fault to find, & that is that your style is too faultlessly clear! The thought finds such perfect intellectual expression that one would welcome a little shade amid so great a shining of the light." He adds a request that I would preach in S. Cuthbert's on May 25th, 1930, which "will be the first regular assembly of the re–united Church." I was temerarious enough to accept this distant invitation.