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...EVENING SERVICE. The Rev. Canon H. Hensley Henson, D.D., of Westminster Abbey, London. Appleton Chapel...
...Canon H. Hensley Henson, M.A., D.D., of Westminster Abbey, London, England, will preach in Appleton Chapel tomorrow at the regular evening service at 7.30 o'clock...
Canon Henson is an Englishman of aristocratic birth. He was educated privately and at Oxford, then was elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, For several years he held various offices in connection with the religious side of the college and in 1900 was made Canon of Westminster Abbey and Rector of St. Margaret's Church. As Rector of St. Margaret's Church, Canon Henson is preacher to the House of Commons, and so occupies a distinguished but peculiar position in the church. He has been very prominent in the recent controversies in England over the "open church" question...
World's Work--"Edwin Austin Abbey," by R. Saint-Gaudens '03; "Feminization in school and home," by G. S. Hall...
Professor Moore, in addition, visited such other monuments in England as Shoreham, Chichester, Worcester, Gloucester, and Winchester. Furthermore, he gave considerable attention to the great choir of Westminster Abbey. This last, though it is a conscious imitation of the great French cathedral of Reims, bears traces of English influence: it may be characterized as French in conception, but English in execution...