15 Feb 1871
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Newspaper
Church Herald
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 15, 1871
Page
1
The Church Herald will be sent post free for one month to any address. Offer available from the Office at 198 High Holborn W.C. to eligible readers via post delivery.
The Church Herald is issued on Tuesday and Friday afternoons for the Country Post. Subscribers may order from the Office, or via a local Bookseller if not regularly supplied. Please provide the name of your bookseller and London agent to ensure regular trade supply.
A moral appeal stresses marriage as the basis of national vigor, warning against loosening nuptial laws. The piece contrasts English purity with Roman and German moral decline, condemns divorce and proposed changes like marrying a deceased wife's sister, and urges public support for upholding traditional marriage. It notes a Marriage Law Defence Association meeting and prays for divine blessing.
An critique denounces a Church Missionary Society event at the Assembly Rooms as vulgar and unworthy, alleging clergy misuse charity for entertainments that mock war suffering. It calls for clerics to focus on proper church duties, condemning profiteering and juvenile amusement tied to fundraising.
Reports from Paris describe extreme distress and scarcity with fuel and provisions scarce. Relief from London misallocated some goods, prompting critique of distribution while price gouging and black market activity rise. Armistice terms loom as German forces mobilize, and casualty figures rise amid bombardment of the capital.
A call to weigh measures carefully amid war aftermath and fear of sweeping changes. The piece argues truth and right must guide policy, warns against bare majorities, and urges respect for minority conscience while opposing a divinely enacted law being altered. It urges thorough discussion and merit based decision.
A somber protest against how prayers for mercy fade into cold war jargon. The speaker contrasts raw human suffering with euphemistic language that sanitizes fratricide and battlefield death. The piece laments soldiers dying with wounds ignored and families left desolate.
A Vatican brief dated November 25 1870 elevates William Ewart Gladstone as a defender of the true faith and plots the political use of influence against the Church of England with promises of favor. It condemns English and Scottish sectaries, hints at suppressing dissent, and hints at future acts of justice against “schismatical intruders” within the English sees. The document includes endorsements and a translation asserting papal authority and prerogatives.
The Archbishop of Canterbury seeks law officers’ opinion on whether the title United Church of England and Ireland should be kept or replaced with Church of England in ordination services and clerical declarations. The law officers advise substituting Church of England in both cases.
A list of clerical preferments including Rev H Vincent La Bas and others receiving new parishes or positions, followed by obituaries noting the deaths of several clergymen with ages and locations in Sussex and Maidenhead, plus knighthood and family lines.
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