The Henson Journals

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Saturday, March 2nd, 1929.

["]In religion, which means man's blindness and weakness as well as his hope, it does not do to be ambitious, or to claim great things for men or for systems.["]

Church. "Pascal & other Sermons" p.94

The frost continues, but there is a feeling of thaw in the air. I wasted another morning in the vain attempt to write something about Modernism for the "Bishoprick", but my right hand has for the present lost its cunning.

I tramped round the Park in the afternoon: & looked on for a while at a football match, played on a snow–covered ground. The passion for the game is unquenchable among these Northerners.

In view of my intention (will it ever be carried out?) of going to Avignon after Easter, I fell to reading Creighton's account of the Popes who reigned there. It is truly a melancholy record: and not less astonishing than melancholy: for the general conscience was certainly troubled, and the most depraved part of the Christian Church was the Papacy.

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