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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Apr 23, 1873
Page
5
A letter from Sir Henry Thompson to the Archbishop of Canterbury argues that habitual use of fermented liquor harms body and mind, urging the English Church to lead temperance efforts. He warns against moderate use and stresses the national stakes in moral and physical welfare.
Lords discuss amendments to the Mutiny Act to hold soldiers liable for support of families. Irish University Tests bill advances in Commons with a royal commission debate and various speeches before second reading and committee of supply.
The Edinburgh school board election expenses will run about 2200. Hawick and Lauder boards rejected prayers at meetings by large majorities. Prescot editor J. Johnson Brown, Anglican by faith, was elected to the Prescot School Board, defeating a Dissenter. Manchester Diocesan Board of Education held its annual meeting as the bishop urged a common basis in Christian teaching.
The bishop pressed for a free and open church while denouncing heathenised masses and pew system abuses. A Social Science Association conference in Adelphi critiqued primary instruction, urging simpler standards and better teacher training. The National Education League circulated a report defending petitions to Parliament arguing widespread support for reform and condemning manipulated private petitions.
A letter from Spezzia describes a missionary school led by a teacher’s illness and succession, a donated mission house, and a congregation growing through Italian and English services. It notes Italians turning to faith, an infant baptism of hope, and a captain’s grieving loss of a daughter aboard an American warship in the Gulf of Spezzia.
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