Ecclesiastical education and school boards debate intensifies
A leading commentary argues that secular, universal elementary education requires boards to fund expansion while denying clerical control. It warns against transferring church schools to boards, notes potential political tactics over rates, and urges a nonsectarian path with strict limits on clerical influence.
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Friends of Ecclesiastical Education
Hugh Birley
Religious instruction and school board elections debate
The passage argues that voluntary religious instruction would affect school board elections and sectarian theology. It contends that allowing masters to provide instruction would either keep the Powper-Temple Clause or lead to catechisms and formularies, risking clerical schools funded by rates outside major towns.
New Ecclesiastical Pamphlets Reviewed
A roundup of four new Liberation Society pamphlets and related works on church establishment disestablishment and reform. Debates cover Nonconformists versus Established Church, Oxford University reforms, public worship, church law and endowment, and Anglican Catholic responses. Includes Do they well to be angry and discussions between Manning and Redesdale.
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Office
The
Liberation Society
Dean Stanley
Oxford University
E. Lyntra Stanley
Stanley
Oxford
House of Commons
Duartes Mraxt
British Quarterly Review
England
Wales
Hume
Presbyter Anglicanus
J. H. Batty
Cardinal Manning
Holy See
Lord Redesdale
Daily Telegraph
Rivingtons
Potter
J. McDougall
Manchester
Heywood
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Earl of Minto
K.T
Rainy
D.D
John Edmond
Jedburgh
Scottish
F. W. Avelline
Northampton
Elliot Stock
Henry M. NicHoxson
Plymouth
J. Smith
Devonshire
Surrey Congregational Union
W. G. Sorzr
J. Snow and Co
J. P. Barnett
Pusey
I. Stock
Dr. Pusey
W. Ridgway
Mr. Calvert
Q.C
W. C. Barber
W. Stewart and Co
Tuos. Prescott
M.A
J. Hodges
Osborne Morgan
Cardiff
D. Duncan and Sons
LinceLysaire
Walter Morison
Edinburgh
Murray and Gibb
Church of Christ
Liberation Society to Close Season with London Meetings
The Liberation Society plans its season finale in London with a council afternoon meeting and a public night gathering at the Metropolitan Tabernacle. The program includes an executive report, a discussion on constituting the Triennial Conference, new admission rules, and an impressive speaker lineup led by chairman Mr. Chamberlain.
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The
Liberation Society
London
Metropolitan Tabernacle
Chamberlain
Mr Gordon and Rev Berger Debate in Ripon
A crowded Ripon public room heard a three hour exchange between Rev T T Berger and Mr Gordon sparked by Gordon’s reply to the Bishop of Ripon at Wakefield. The long anticipated discussion drew a packed audience and lively discourse.
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Gordon