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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Aug 26, 1874
Page
2
A Worcestershire gathering debates the Worship Regulation Bill, Irish Church disestablishment, and the Liberation Society. Lords Hampton Lyttelton and others argue over Anglican High Church and Ritualist tensions, praising bishops while warning against secular attack and clerical excess.
In Isle of Wight, M.P. Baillie Cochrane argues the church is strong now, tracing revival to Wesley and contrasting tradition with modern ceremonies. He cites Augustine Stafford, Luther, and Calvin on worship, praise of beauty, and music, while urging discipline and opposing novel rites. He lauds Mr Israeli’s Religious Worship Bill as stabilizing.
Edward Peacock argues that the term reverend once served as a general honorific in correspondence. Examples from the Paston letters and Plumpton papers show lay and clerical writers addressing recipients as right worshipful and reverend, long before formal ecclesiastical use.
In a Westminster Abbey sermon Dean Stanley argued against strict literal compliance with rubrics and exact Bible interpretation in public worship. He criticized rigid imitation of Christ’s life and praised Bishop, ending with a glowing tribute.
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