The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, January 22nd, 1930.

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Lady Wrightson with her son John, and two friends came to lunch: and, after their departure, Ella and I motored into Durham, where we parted, I going to the Castle for business, & she going to pay calls. The Archdeacons joined me in my room in the Castle, and we discharged divers matters of diocesan business. Then the deputation from Roker, Messrs Logan & Hope, arrived, and, after tea, we discussed the situation inthat parish. Then I rejoined the car, & returned home with Ella, who had picked up Fearne & Mr Thorpe.

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I finished reading Archbishop D'Arcy's little book "The Christian Outlook in the Modern World". It is amazingly suggestive and informing. How true it is that only a great man can write a small book! I am more than ever surprized and regretful that the Author should be unable to rise above the fierce and narrow Protestantism of Northern Ireland, when he speaks & writes about the Revised Prayer Book. He wrote privately to Lord Londonderry counselling him to vote for the Prayer Book Measure in the House of Lords, yet, when the B Measure had been rejected in the House of Commons by the aid of Irish votes, he did not scruple to justify the action of the Irish members!

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