The Henson Journals

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Saturday, April 12th, 1930.

Another delightful day, and very warm.

I finished the Edinburgh Sermon: & then read through Headlam's article in the new issue of the Church Quarterly on 'The Christian Ministry'. It is almost a personal apology for his change of front on Apostolic Succession. He now stands where I stood when I wrote the volume 'Apostolic Christianity' in 1898. But I cannot base on his historical argument that insistence on the Episcopate as necessarily the form of government in an united Church. This seems to me to imply a theory of Apostolic Succession which is precisely that which he has confessedly abandoned.

Mrs De Vere & her adopted daughter, Mr & Mrs Griffith–Jones with their 3 children, and John Wild came to lunch. The men of the party walked with me in the Park afterwards. All departed after tea.

The lay–reader from Jarrow Grange, Barnett, came to see me about Orders. I promised to allow him to sit for the deacon's Ordination next month.

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