The Henson Journals

[Wednesday, January 29th, 1930.]

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The 'Bishoprick' arrived. I sent Copies to:–

1.	Lord Stamfordham	23.	The Dean of Carlisle
2.	Lord Londonderry	24.	The Dean of Manchester
3.	Lord Durham	25.	The Dean of Bristol
4.	Mr Harold Speed	26.	Rev. Arthur Hird
5.	The Dean of Westminster	27.	Rev. Archibald Fleming
6.	The Dean of Exeter	28.	Canon Gordon
7.	Prof. Hamilton Thompson	29.	Ven: Kenneth Gibbs
8.	C. R. Peers	30.	Canon Peter Green
9.	Derek B. Elliott
10.	Canon Watson
11.	John Wrightson
12.	Canon Vernon Storr
13.	Canon Jenkins
14.	Bishop Knox
15.	The Dean of Lichfield
16.	The Dean of Worcester
17.	The Dean of York
18.	The Dean of Windsor
19.	The Dean of Ely
20.	The Dean of Canterbury
21.	The Dean of Ripon
22.	The Dean of Chester

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I completed and despatched a long letter to the Editor of the Times on 'Church & State'. He may very well decline to publish it as, of course, it indicates quite clearly the moral obligatoriness of Disestablishment. On the other hand, the subject is now before the public, and the Bishop of Durham has rather a special title to be heard on it. If he does publish it, my general position may be stated sufficiently, so that it will hardly be necessary for me to speak at length in the Assembly.

I went in to Durham, & presided at a meeting of the Bede College Committee.

The Times has an interesting account of the Hungarian Poisoners. In a remote district of Hungary there has been a custom of poisoning sick relatives with arsenic for 20 years past. One circumstance is dwelt upon as important viz: that during the period in which most of the deaths occurred the pastor (the majority of the inhabitants belong to the Reformed Church) was an old man who saw little of his parishioners except in church. In the absence of any moral direction the women easily followed the lead of the midwife.

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