Manchester as a test ground for state church and voluntaryism
The article argues voluntary Christian benevolence built many churches and outpaced state support in Manchester, claiming the town shows the failure of state-church funding and the success of voluntary aid. It notes a shift among conservative churchmen who now oppose abuse and urge removal of the degrading state system, predicting anti-state church sentiment will grow within the establishment.
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Victoria
Elizabeth
Manchester
Lancashire
Church Patronage at Manchester and Canon Parkinson
A Manchester Guardian report covers a laymen meeting condemning Canon Parkinson for accepting the presidency of the College of St Bees while retaining his Manchester canonry. Speakers denounce church apathy, pluralities, and misused revenues, urging reform of church duties and finances amid a 200,000 population and 480 memorialists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester Guardian
Manchester
Parkinson
College of St. Bees
Malcolm Roas
Parkingon
Measra
Robert Gardner
Richard Birley
Malcolm Ross
Thomas Clegg
John Harrison
Edward Lomas
Ross
Branzy
Canon Parkinson
Richard Brerey
Birley
Menacin
Clifton
Canon
St. Bees
Matocoum Ross
Thomas Curae
Clegg
Joan Hargison
Harrison
Lancashire
Cumberland
Vocational lure of high honours in the Church
The passage argues that comfort and status drive educated men to seek church life, questioning how someone of birth and schooling can choose the clergy if there are no significant honours or emoluments to aspire to. It frames church vocation as a social lure rather than purely spiritual calling.
Tithe Dispute in Holborn Parish of St Andrew's
From & Correspondent. In Holborn parish, Robinson Purday and others resist tithe demands pursued via two magistrates under William IV. A protracted struggle shows prior rulings, threats of distress warrants, and later chancery suits as parishioners protest alleged overreach by a rector and his solicitor.
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ST. Andrew's
Holborn
Robinson
Purday
Gilbert Beresford
Sergeant Sellon
Bedford-row
Daniel Buckle
Upper Baker-street
Pentonville
Thomas P. Turner
Turner
Middlesex
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