The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, January 7th, 1930[sic] [1931].

The frost continues, & there is a tendency to fog. I read two chapters of Canon Quick's book on the Christian Sacraments, & was rather surprized to find that he attaches very little importance to the Dominical institution of the Holy Eucharist. Plainly he is immersed in the sophistries of the "Catholick Modernists".

I walked round the Park, where a large number of lads from the Unemployment Training Centre were sliding on the frozen water beyond the goal posts, while others kicked about a football on the hard ground. There were many pit–ponies in the park, about 100. I was told by the two men who were "rounding them up". The beasts feel the cold, & there have been some deaths from chest diseases. They stand about, & take no exercise.

Caröe arrived about 6 p.m. He tells me that the Prime Minister is going to appoint a woman to succeed Middleton as 2nd Estates Commissioner!! Could humiliation be greater for a Church which claims to be Catholick & Apostolick? To have "Labour" directly concerned with administering the property of the Church of England opens the door to grave trouble.

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