The Henson Journals
Mon 24 March 1930
Volume 49, Page 172
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Monday, March 24th, 1930.
The Times reports the death of Chancellor Aubrey T. Lawrence, at the age of 55. He gave me a copy of Cripps' 'Law relating to Church and Clergy': and had shown evidences of kindly feelings toward me, after a long spell of ignorant abhorrence!
Dr & Mrs Jackson from Chester–le–Street lunched here. He gave me a woeful account of the situation in Pelton: where the Vicar, Merryweather, has been "breaking out again" in the worst ways. He is alleged to have cried "Damn the Bishops"! in the course of a sermon, & his language is scarcely sane: & yet, horribly offensive as it is, there is hardly anything actionable in it: &, hitherto, I have had no complaint from the P.P.
Pattinson and I motored to Sunderland, where I confirmed 80 persons in S. Mark's, Millfield. Before the service Wright, of S. Mary's, took me to the Infirmary, where I confirmed a sick youth in his bed. After the service in S. Mark's, we returned to Auckland.