BISHOP AND SOLDIER.
BEDSIDE CONFIRMATION.
JOURNEY OF 30 MILES
The people of Brussels Street, Gateshead, Durham, were astonished on May 2, by the arrival in their midst of a bishop in full vestments. It was the bishop of the diocese, Dr. Ilensley Henson, who had travelled thirty miles in order to comply with the request of an ex-soldier, W alter Forster, who had expressed a wish to be confirmed.
Mr. Forster was wounded and gassed in the war. Ho had been seriously ill for ten months, and was confined to his bed. His desire for confirmation was conveyed to the proper quarters, but nobody supposed that it would reach the ears of tho bishop, still less that it would be the bishop himself, suitably robed, who would go to tho sick man's bedside to perform the offices of the Church.
Still, among his other high ecclesiastical duties Bishop Henson found time for this, and tho service was duly carried out with all becoming ceremony in the humble homo of tho sick soldier.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20598, 24 June 1930, Page 10
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