The Henson Journals

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Saturday, January 3rd, 1931.

["]History does not stand or fall with historians. From the 13th century we rely much more on letters than on histories written for the public. I need not add that the history of our Lord which we find in the Epistles is one most valuable testimony in favour of the Gospels.["]

Letters of L. Acton to Mary Gladstone, p. 32.

I despatched the Article to the Secretary of the Theological College Department of the Student Christian Movement. I read through Headlam's Article on the 'Lambeth Conference & Reunion' in the new issue of 'The Church Quarterly Review'. It is clear, cogent unconvincing and truculent, in a word, highly characteristic of the writer.

I walked in the Park for an hour and a half. There was nobody but a few boys sliding on the ice beside the goal post. Everything was ice–bound, but the sun–setting in a calm sky was wonderful.

Fearne went out to a dance, being transferred thither and returned from thence by the Cecil McCullaghs.

Charles returned to his duties, and I resumed a measure of mental tranquillity!

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