The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, December 23rd, 1930.

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Simmonds came to lunch, & afterwards, I had some speech with him about his situation, in view of the probability that the Archbishop will seek from me some information about him. He assured me that at S. Mary's, Tynemouth, they did not advance beyond the limit of the first Rubrick in the 1928 Prayer Book. He said that this wd be his own practice in any parish, to which he might be appointed, & that he wd not advance beyond it without the Bishop's knowledge. "But if the Bishop objected, would you obey him?". He would not give an affirmative answer. There is the difficulty.

Eric Knowles, an Ordination Candidate, came also to lunch. I approved him for a training grant.

After lunch I motored to Durham, where I visited Andreas's Book Shop, & ordered some gift books. Is this waste of money, or not?

The "Yorkshire Post", the "Manchester Guardian", the "Newcastle Journal" and the Darlington paper give considerable prominence to my reference to Disestablishment in yesterday's sermon, & to my "rebuke" to "Father Bill" in my speech at the Luncheon. He certainly was himself the cause of my references to his lawlessness.

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