The Henson Journals

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Saturday, May 30th, 1931.

The names of the candidates are these:–

For Deacons' Orders.

1. Dennis, Gwyn Morgan, B. A. (Bristol)

2. James, Benjamin Beynon

3. Lathaen, William Alan, B. A. (Durham)

4. Maughan, Joseph, B. A. (Durham)

5. Tindale, Robert

6. Westcott, Basil Brook Foss, B. A. (Cambridge)

For Priests' Orders

7. Bowen, Arthur Howell, B. A. (Lampeter)

8. Marples, Frederick Ernest, B. A. (Durham)

Westcott is the only one of them all who could be described as a gentleman. The rest are mostly of labouring parents. The levels of intellectual and cultural life cannot but sink in this diocese. Can we allow ourselves to hope that the standard, moral & spiritual, will be raised?

"God chose the foolish things of the world, that he might put to shame them that are wise." It is a pity that so many of them have been already working as laymen, so that their Ordination hardly means any change of occupation. The sense of a solemn new Adventure – rising up, and following the master – has no place in their experience. They are spiritually blasés!

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