Auction of Didbury living exposes church sale of souls
A Manchester letter reports the sale of the Didbury parish living as an investment, listing buyers and the 800 souls offered for 3500 pounds. It questions clerical resignations, notes the rich parish population, and warns that church livings are gambled assets in a system eager for profit beyond Gospel aims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
William John Kidd
Cheshire
Lancashire
Thomas Darwell
James Lowe
Oldhamstreet
Lowe
Providence
Manchester
Didsbury
Hugh Birley
M.P
Oldham
Thomas Ashton
Richard Haworth
Wesleyan College
Oldham-street
Quakers
Corporation
Alderman King
The
Living
Didbary
Mr. Lowe
Mr. Kidd
Adamsons
Humphries
Hendersons
Bollands
Birleys
Monaco
Fuentarabia
Summer Work of the Liberation Society List of July Meetings
The Liberation Movement reports a busy July with over fifty open air meetings. Rev James Browne spoke at Seghill Tyhope Grange Mepermstry Benfieldside Crook Whittlesea and Swarraam Prior with local leaders recognizing establishment and disestablishment themes and calls for church reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liberation Movement
James Browne
Northumberland
Durham
Browne
Seghill
John Smith
William Allan
Barlow
Typhoe Grange
M. Morris
Mr. Browne
C. Friskin
H. B
Mepemstry
Thompson
James Armstrong
Benfieldside
Durrham
Henry Carse
Crook
H. B. S. Thompson
Henry Yowll
Church of England
Reverend J H Lummis Holds Open Air Meetings in Cambridgeshire
In Leverington on July 30 the Rev J H Lummis spoke to agricultural labourers about their role in the coming struggle, with opposition from a local schoolmaster on the property question. A calm, orderly discussion followed. In Thorney on the following Wednesday under Mr J Crabtree the meeting again discussed The Established Church a Present Day with controlled conduct and a generally good-natured tone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lummis
Whittlesea
S. Hughes
Lummie
Pala
Swarraam Prior
J. H. Lummis
Leverington
Thorney
J. Crabtree
Wisheach
Lectures by the Rev. T Adams Across Several Villages
Daily July to August notices show the Rev. T Adams of Daventry delivering lectures in Hinton Byfield Eypon Charwelton Frecknoz and Wit Loveusy with crowds attentive and tracts distributed. Chairs included Rev Chas Brown and Rev A Greer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. Adams
Hinton
Daventry
Chas. Brown
J. C. Robinson
Brown
Charwelton
Frecknoz
Adams
A. Greer
E. F. A. Briggs
Wit Loveusy
Ecclesiastical matters across Britain and Spain長
Ecclesiastical notes record Mr. R F Horton becoming Oxford Union president and Catholic and ritualist tensions in Brighton Majorca and Minorca. A Dublin archdiocese Peter's pence gift to Rome is noted as well as a Canterbury thanksgiving recommendation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. F. Horton
Bradford
Oxford Union
Brighton
Frederick Robertson
Broad Church
Rome
Peter
Dublin
Port Mahon
Madrid
Balearic Islands
Pall Mall
Braprorp
Ripon
St. Jude’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
Liberation Society
Cambridgeshire
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