The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, July 24th, 1929.

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Our guests went off after breakfast. Then I wasted the whole morning over those hateful Income Tax papers, which are as inexplicable to me as ever in spite of Dashwood's assistance.

Latimer, the Ordination Candidate from Whickham, who has been at Salisbury Theological College, came to lunch, and afterwards walked with me in the Park.

Then Caröe arrived on one of his lightening visits. The contractor met him, and they went off to inspect the work.

In 1847 Mr Gladstone wrote to his father a very candid and very severe description of "Protestantism", which can hardly be said to be out of date today. (v. Letters on Church & Religion selected and arranged by D.C. Lathbury ii. 3.)

"It is this false and hollow system of religion hating all that have disturbed its leaden slumbers, which now unites itself with an honest & vehement fanaticism to raise a cry of 'No Popery', and under that cry denounces the genuine spirit of the Church of England."

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