The Henson Journals

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Tuesday, January 6th, 1931.

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The hard frost continues, but the bright sun seemed to overcome the cold. I worked at the Letter on the Lambeth Conference, which I intend to publish in the forthcoming "Bishoprick". The difficulty is to say what needs saying without actually breaking the difficult rule of 'secresy'[sic], or being blatantly egotistic. I desire to indicate my personal dissent from much that was agreed upon; and yet I do not wish to make myself appear as a mere Ishmaelite, which would be false to the facts, and on many accounts undesirable. I certainly do not share the ardent episcopalianism of my brother bishops.

I wrote to Arthur Watts, who reached the age of 21 yesterday, addressing him as 'Citizen'.

I received an excellent and informing letter from Brilioth in reply to mine, thanking him for the gift of his book. He describes the situation in Sweden, which has some striking resemblances to that in England. "The most serious consequences of the present system of establishment is in my opinion to be found in the province of marriage." But still he clings to the establishment.

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