The Henson Journals
Tue 1 April 1930
Volume 49, Page 180
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Tuesday, April 1st, 1930.
An unpleasant blustering day for All Souls. I copied out an abbreviated version of my sermon on Psalm 119–96, for use at Windsor next Sunday. It will have to serve.
Hitchcock, the assistant curate of Willingdon, came to see about the proposal that he should succeed Fuller at South Hylton. There is a pension on the living, so that the entire income is no more that £300, and the rates amount to £50. Of course he has no private means whatever. It hardly seems safe for him to take on.
I motored to Sunderland, & confirmed 55 persons in S. Thomas's Church. It was rather a depressing service, and the number of candidates hardly justified a separate confirmation.
After a prodigious search I found in my journal for July 15th, 1927, the extract from Bishop Boutflower's article in the Contemporary Review, Dec. 1903 on 'Some Sayings of Bishop Westcott.
"I should like to know whether my idea is true that the great epochs of church building have always been the times of greatest spiritual depression".
There is a spate if Cathedral building in U.S.A. now!