Meeting on Endowment of Popery Provokes City Hall Debate
A crowded meeting in a large bark-shed room criticizes the proposed endowment of the Roman Catholic Church and defends separation of church and state. Rev. Alfred Tilly and Mr. Kingsley lead sharp arguments against state establishment, while opponents condemn Mayor’s refusal to grant Town Hall use, noting the controversy in York and Britain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke
Alfred Tilly
Church of England
Kingsley
Ublic
Ireland
Thas
York
Watkinson
Wm. Ross
Anti-State Church Association Plans London Meetings
The British Anti-State Church Association holds its monthly meeting at Hackney’s Manor Rooms. With likely endowment measures for Romish priests, the committee plans several metropolis public meetings including a Rosemary branch event in Peckham on the 20th. Lectures by Kingsley will visit London areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Anti-State Church Association
Manor Rooms
the Mermaid
Hackney
Rosemary
Peckham
Kingsley
London
T. A. Wheeler
Lillett
Norwich
Swaffham
Neeton
Downham
Lynn
Norfolk
Ebenezer Clarke
Brill
Thame
Crendon
Mr. Kingsley
Northamptonshire
Church Taxes and the Means of Resistance
The piece debates civil funding of churches and rejects the claim that believers must refuse ecclesiastical taxes. It argues the Nonconformist view treats church and state as separate yet urges inquiry into who can resist civil endowment of church power and how.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Brougham
France
England
Britain
Congregational Magazine
Kingdom of Christ
British Empire
Seccession of Baptist Noel shocks London church
The Rev. Baptist Noel announced his planned leave from the Church of England after twenty six years at St John’s Chapel Bedford Row. The Bishop of London prohibited further preaching in his diocese and Noel prepared a farewell sermon while Archdeacon Dealtry was to lead in the interim.
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St. John’s Chapel
Bedford Row
Noel
London
Church of England
Bedford-row
Archdeacon Dealtry
India
Rey
Christ
Sacheverel
Cecil
Sibthorp
Dillon
Baptist Noel
Exeter
Shore
Gorham
Oxford Chronicle
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