The Henson Journals

Saturday, April 25th, 1931.

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["]Persons of superior capacity and improvement have often fallen into errors, which no one of near common understanding could……

The extravagancies of enthusiasm and superstition do not at all lie in the road of common sense: & therefore, so far as they are original mistakes, must be owing to going beside or beyond it.["]

Bishop Butler. Sermons, 82.

A frantick letter from Mrs Illingworth equally natural, unreasonable, & distressing.

I wrote to Professor Hutchens inviting him to a private & unofficial interview.

Rainbow came to lunch with Gerald and Mary. Both the children are growing rapidly.

Mrs Murray and Derek arrived before dinner. Derek is now 6 feet in height and is a pleasant well–mannered lad 18 years & four months old. His mind seems to be settled on Ordination, but who can count on that age?

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