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.
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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.
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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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Johnson
Warwickshire Congregational Union
Perry, &c
Mes
Baie
Canon Farrar
Balaam
Christopher Sly
Cambridge Independent Press
University of Cambridge
Satan
Church of England