Clergy Refuse Sale of Coveted Cross to Donors
A historic cross, desired by many donors, remains unsold as clergy decline to part with it. The stand reflects a broader debate over sacred artifacts and fundraising priorities within the community.
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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 15, 1868
Page
7
A historic cross, desired by many donors, remains unsold as clergy decline to part with it. The stand reflects a broader debate over sacred artifacts and fundraising priorities within the community.
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The Queen and royal family plan a Windsor to Osborne stay and a four week visit before Bal moral, with Aldershot camp visits and Ireland tours. News notes the Marquis of Salisbury's death and Viscount Cranborne's succession, Nova Scotia’s anti Confederation deputation, and Dr. John Elliotson’s legacy in medical advancement.
The passage notes a professor who believed strongly in a truth connected with meameriam and resigned rather than appear hesitant about the issue, showing firm conviction over his conclusions.
Mary Manning guilty of man slaughter in a Central Criminal Court trial after allegedly placing a child on a fire while drunk. Stowell dies from self inflicted wounds after his wife’s sudden death. Two brothers drown when a yacht capsizes off Brighton. A Hackneywick unfinished house yields a decomposed body with two names found on clothing and a laudanum vial. an inquest hints the deceased may be Heaseman through a missing relative’s photo.
A Major quenches a waiter for mischief and a jolly Captain K. tricks Peter with a white cover, pretending the Angel Gabriel has come to take him to Father Abraham's bosom. Peter reveals the joke, ending in laughter and a remembered tale from American papers.
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