The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, October 2nd, 1929.

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Vincent Baddeley went away after lunch. He is evidently rather perturbed at the prospect of a Socialist's governments treatment of the Services.

I motored to Darlington, and called on Canon Cosgrave, who was reported to have fainted at the League of Nations meeting yesterday. Then I went on to West Hartlepool & made a vain attempt to see Canon Knowlden. His sister reported him to be growing weaker. I suppose there is nothing to be done save to wait developments. I called on Canon Poole, who is acting as Rural Dean in Knowlden's stead. My approach to the Castle as I returned was glorified by a rainbow.

Gore, Turner, Brightman & Spears with other like–minded Anglo–Catholicks have put out a manifesto against the South Indian Reunion scheme. "They cd not remain in communion with any Church that formally sanctioned" some of its provisions. Thus violence again replaces discussion.

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"There are combinations in the picture of Jesus which, as a picture, at any rate, seem to me unique, and which I am inclined to think are not merely picture, but portrait. I mean such combinations as his humility and his sense of authority: his sternness & his gentleness: his great pity and his great purity: his tinge of asceticism & his lack of asceticism: his constant living with God and his compassionate forthcomingness towards many sinners: his hatred of sin & his active friendliness & sympathy for the outcast and the "lost" …….. I do deduce from them that Jesus was original – original in his character as also in his way of life: a new phenomenon among the Jews, which has scarcely been repeated."

(C.G. Montefiore. 'The Originality of Jesus' in Hibbert Journal, October 1929. This is a notable article far more Christian than the utterances at Girton)

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