The Henson Journals
Fri 30 May 1930
Volume 50, Page 47
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Friday, May 30th, 1930, G.D.A.
The glorious weather continues. Mrs Gow left after breakfast: and I settled down to a futile morning of correspondence & promiscuous reading.
I wrote a rather belated letter to William.
Ella had a number of visitors in the afternoon, including a Colonel & Mrs McNoble, whom Lillingstone brought with him from Durham. I showed them the Chapel.
The members of Fearne's society, the G.D.A, only numbered 8. Archdeacon Rawlinson & his wife came also. I do not quite understand the purpose of the society, but gather that it is a socially select (!) version of the G.F.S. How any living religion can be expected to grow from the root of snobbery is hard to see, but we must "fulfil all righteousness".
The weather deteriorated as the afternoon drew towards evening, and anxiety as to the weather on Monday began to shadow my mind. Rawlinson & his wife arrived. He is quite at home with these devotional experiments. I attend compline, but did not stay for the address as I don't want him to get the impression that I am doubtful as to his teaching!