The Henson Journals
Sat 28 June 1930
Volume 50, Page 103
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Saturday, June 28th, 1930.
The Newcastle and Darlington papers give fair reports of what I said yesterday. It remains to be seen what the Rev. S. Carden has to say more!
I wrote to him a private remonstrance. If he had any decent feeling he would reply with an apology. But Dissent and Decent feeling rarely co–exist!
I spent the morning in writing a sermon for S. Peter's. This hectic production is utterly bad. In the afternoon Ella & Pattinson went with me to Durham, where I preached in the Cathedral to the Sunday School Association.
I had interviews with Henry Littlejohn, a young artisan, quite illiterate, who desired to be ordained, & whom I could not encourage, though his modesty & evident sincerity impressed me: & William Hanley, a student of St Chad's who desired permission to work as a lay–reader during his vacation. He said that he was pledged to work in Manchester.
Harris of All Souls, who now works on the Times and edits the Nineteenth Century & After, came for the week–end. He has been inquiring into industrial conditions at Middlesbrough. He told me that he wrote the articles on 'Rationalisation' in the Times.