The Henson Journals

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Friday, April 4th, 1930.

A very cold & blustering day with snow on the hills. I wrote to Mr Vaisey, dissenting from his opinion that that Disestablishment would not bring to the Church any greater measure of liberty than it has now & sending him my pamphlet on 'Church & State'.

I received an angry letter from Sir John Priestman, and sent him a mild one in return.

I finished reading Fisher's attack on Christian Science – "Our new Religion" – and conceived the idea of taking as my subject for the Address to the Medical Students something suggested by Psycho–therapy viz. the irrationality of taking sharply specialized views of that human nature which is the subject–matter of the medical art. Something might, perhaps, be made out of this. Ignorance compels me to steer clear of anything specific; but this subject approaches near enough to my own "line of country" to justify my talking about it.

Pattinson and I motored to Sunderland, and there I confirmed 90 persons in S. Barnabas Church. The new Vicar, Rhodes, an ex–curate of Hull, told me that he was shortly to be married! We got back to the Castle about 10 p.m.

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