The Henson Journals

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Friday, January 17th, 1930.

I had some talk with Derek, & showed him some of my books. He strikes me as a lad of good ability, and, if he is also industrious and reasonably ambitious, he might go far. He went back to school in the afternoon, leaving a pleasant impression behind him.

I motored to Durham, where I presided over the Religious Education Committee, where everything was very harmonious and very hollow. Then I walked in the Banks with Rawlinson. After having tea with the Bishop of Jarrow, I returned to Auckland.

[symbol] Lord Hugh Cecil has declared himself a thorough–going opponent of the South Indian Scheme of Reunion. This might have been expected, but, none the less, it arouses vehement resentment as if it were a strange discovery. That precious hybrid is likely to break up the Anglican Communion unless it can be hustled out of the way. The truth is that there are two churches gathered under the description 'the Church of England', and these are contrary the one to the other, so that neither can insist on its own principles without bringing the precarious combination to disaster!

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