Protestant Disestablishment Meetings Stir Public Debate
A string of late autumn meetings across towns such as West Bromwich, Harborne, Smethwick, and Birkenhead drew crowds to discuss disestablishment and church-state relations. Speakers T Watkinson, W Dorling, Marmaduke Miller, and others argued for liberation of religion from state patronage amid interruptions and heated exchanges.
Derby meeting on Liberation Society aims at church property
A crowded Temperance Hall gathering in Derby listened to R W Dale and J G Rogers on Liberation Society aims. Alderman Longdon chaired. Cave argued parish churches belong to parishioners, not a single church, tracing tithes from voluntary to obligatory by the State.
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Owston Ferry
Gladstone
University of Oxford
Massingham
Miller
Dr. Massingham
Stokes
Bcar
Burstemn
Bursem
W. Boulton
Woodall
Louis Suretos
J. Browne
Bradford
Free Library
M.grey
Alderman James
Blaydon
Browne
J. Charlton
John Andrew
Bethel Chapel
Liberation Society
G. M. Tweddell
Ayton
Andrew
Ripon
Wakefield
Richard Craggs
J. Hadfield
Stokesley
Smethwick
Wright
B. Heard
London
J. W. Mays
A M. Dalrymple
Messra
S. J. Ainge
K. J. Harris
H. Reeves
Church of England
Harborne
Hastings
Heard
Birkenhead
Wm. Binns
Music Hall
Claughton-road
M‘leod
Claughton
James Samuelson
Charles Willmer
Calvert Varty
W. Osborn
Bancroft Cooke
T. Bott
Weston-Super-Marie
W. W. Jubb
Bristol
E. D. Girdleson
H. P Kmpton
Kingdom
Church of the Poor
Crawford
LytcHeTt Minster and
Maltravers
T. Neave
Dorchester
C. R. Jones
John Thomas
Liverpool
John Jones
Felinfoel
Llanfair
Dolgelly
Llanlyn Mair
T. C. Potts
East London
Holden
Association
Cole
Bellows
Derby
Temperance Hall
R. W. Dale
J. G. Rogers
The
Alderman Longdon
J.P
Cave
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Weston
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England
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Harney
North Staffordshire
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G. Ridgway
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