The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, March 11th, 1930.

Snow covers the country. A wintry scene.

I worked all the morning at the Russian sermon. It is not very easy to make these savages attractive, but it is hard on them that their inevitable medievalism should be inevitably judged by modern standards!

I called on old Dr McCullogh, and lent him Maurois' 'Byron'.

Pattinson and I motored to Jarrow Grange, where I confirmed 73 persons from two parishes viz. Christ Church & St Mark's. Wallace, the Rector of S. Mark's, observed that there seemed to him more sickness among his parishioners than in former years, & this he attributed to the depression caused by continuous unemployment. Many men in his parish have been unemployed for 5 or 6 years. There is no improbability in this view. Dobson, explaining the fewness of his male candidates, says that he found no organizations whatever for men & boys in the parish, but very good ones for women & girls. This throws an unpleasing light on his predecessor's performance of duty. I suspect that the females are much easier to "organize".

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