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Newspaper

Nonconformist

Location

London, Middlesex, United Kingdom

Date

Apr 04, 1877

Page

3

Bridgwater Sunday schools foundation stone laid

Sir Charles Reed presided at Bridgwater Congregational Church as the foundation stone for new Sunday schools was laid. He urged religious liberty, Protestant resolve, and opposition to both Rome and a state church establishment. The event followed by note of other church activities in Hastings Keighley and Yorks on Good Friday.

Representatives of the Sunday Schools of Yorkshire Keighley H. T. Robjohns Hull Young Men’s Christian Union Working Men’s Meeting R. W. Dale Birmingham James Griffin Charles New Andrew Reed B.A C. R. Howell W. Porter Memorial Hall Farringdon Street N. Yale Mummery F.R.A.S H. Fielden Zion CuHaPet East Grinsteap Sussex E. E. Long Zion Chapel East Grinstead Henry Fowle Redhill T. Brantom the Moat Church H. T. Grigg Messrs. Fowle Cramp, Jenks Vince Baptist Church Highgate J. P. Chown Bloomsbury Chapel J. H. Barnard Culross Highbury G. B. Jousnsey Francis Road Edgbaston Belgrave Chapel Torquay

Letter on liquor trades and Permissive Bill debate in 19th century Britain

A correspondent argues that liquor traders would ally with the discontented public under the Permissive Bill and not as strongly under Gothenburg. A second letter criticizes 1876 alcohol data, estimating national expenditure at 147 million pounds and detailing high alcohol consumption and its social costs, urging reform.

Dawson Burns Gothenburg United Kingdom

Canon Farrar Sparks Debate Over State Church Critics

A letter to the editor accuses Liberationists of harpy like excesses and cites Canon Farrar’s Cambridge sermon condemning secular critics of the Church of England. The writer likens opponents to harpies and exposes tensions between university and town factions over church influence.

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