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23.12.1925
One gladly takes refuge from the turmoil of Christmas in the quiet of Bethlehem to rest, reflect and meditate, free from dogma and science…. There I derive gladness and strength, and science awakens memory, not of deprivation and hardship,
but of germinating greatness, succour, and growth. You will smile, but in your neighbourhood too I feel something of the clarity of the Lord, and in any case in thinking of you I am filled with an infinite gratitude and hope. Love is the greatest safeguard against intellectual envy, and after it realisation of the blessing of humility and of the beauty of the honest labour of fetching and carrying, which in the case of your Titanic building is magnificent enough….