Public concern over private slave trade advertisements in church listings
A debate arises over confidential religious sellings of ecclesiastical livings and the market for church appointments. Critics urge full publicity to expose the simoniacal trade, citing historical slave sales and the need to abolish simony in the Establishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church Preferment Register
Birmingham Morning News
Liverpool
Tom Brown
Church Defence and Reform Association
Birmingham
Heaven
Earth
J. O. Cox
J.P
Belper
Peter
Paul
John
Disestablishment debate swells in Wesleyan circles notes
The Wesleyan correspondence mounts over the Bennett judgment with calls for disestablishment and disendowment of the Church of England. A Conservative Methodist letter from Leeds argues Church reform is hopeless, while education reform advances with anti denominational aims and potential unification under nonsectarian boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. W. Holland
Leeds
Mr. Bennett
Leeds Mercury
Church of England
Christ
Belial
P.S
Watchman
Methodist Recorder
Wesleyan Conference
Rigg
W. Arthur
John Knox
Newcastle
Richard Leitch
Blackett-street Chapel
Knox
Bennett
Bennett Were Allowed To Be Propagated In the National Church
Mr. Molyneux
Dean Close
Carlisle
Molyneux