Emancipation from State Patronage Moves Triennial Conference
An editorial declares the 1877 Triennial Conference should pursue unity and purity of motive to advance religious emancipation from state patronage. Delegates are urged to exercise mutual forbearance and responsibility to ensure broad moral influence and a fresh start for the movement.
Triennial Conference of the Liberation Society Opens
Delegates number nearly a thousand for the two day May conference at Cannon Street Hotel starting Tuesday with public gallery access by ticket. Chairmen include Mr Chamberlain and Alfred Illingworth. Public meeting at Metropolitan Tabernacle features Jacob Bright Osbourne Morgan and others in a broad program on disestablishment and ecclesiastical questions.
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Cannon-street Hotel
Chamberlain
M.P
Alfred Illingworth
W.S. Allen
Wesleyan
Liberal Party
Scotland
Church of England
India
Ceylon
Metropolitan Tabernacle
Jacob Bright
Osborne Morgan
Cameron
Glasgow
R. Smyth
Londonderry
Antliff
Primitive Methodist
J. G. Rogers
Charles Spurgeon
Government Burials Bill faces broad opposition across denominations
A wave of resolutions and meetings from Congregationalists Baptists Presbyterians and nonconformist groups condemn the Burials Bill as infringing on burial rights in parochial churchyards. Delegates urge equal access to burial services while protesting clergy dominance and costly new grounds.
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Board of Congregational Ministers
London
General Committee of
Primitive Methodists
Manchester Congregational Board
Sheffield
Lord Shaftesbury
Birmingham Daily Post
York
H. Temple
Canon Cundill
Durham
Manchester
Chester
Canon Cundhill
Archdeacon Cust
Convocation
Archdeacon Prest
Canon Birley
Archdeacon Hamilton
Primitive Methodist Connexion
Sutton-street
Northampton
Church of England
England
Wales
Leeds Association of Congregational Churches
Leeds
E. Conder
W. Thomas
Halifax
The
Liberation Society
Mechanic’s Hall
John Scarborough
Thos. Michael (Baptist
Mellor
Ireland
E. Crossley
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Earl Granville
House of Lords
Westminster Palace Hotel
Congregational Union of England and Wales and
Baptist Union
Wesleyan Conference
Newcastle-on-Tyne
South Devon
Gloucestershire
Herefordshire
Northumberland
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Bedford
Norfolk
Derbyshire
Wilts
East Somerset
Hants
Cornwall
Bath
Rotherham
Frome
Glossop
Boston
Bible Christian Connexional Committee
Liverpool
Welsh Methodists
Warwickshire