Protracted Controversy Over Church Patronage and Nonconformity
In Norfolk News reporting, a curate cruelly pries into a poor girl's church attendance, forcing her to return bonnet and shawl after family aid disputes. The piece cites lay patronage disputes in Darlington, nonconformist lectures in Southampton, and church state entanglements, with strong commentary on clerical appointments and religious liberty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independent Church
Carpenter
Norfolk News
Lay Parronaczt
Tue Duxe
Crevenano
Peorte
Danztinoton
Minton
Duke of Cleveland
Southampton
Albion Chapel
Place
Thomas Pullar
Church of England
Cuurcarates
Waxcrizip
Stan Cuurones
Cardinal Wulsey
Europe
Butter frauds and early closing gains across towns
A humorous note on a butter weight scam in a market ends with a soldier exposing the trick. The story leads into reports from Dumfries Courier about the Banty-Crosixe Movement and early-closing campaigns in several towns. It covers meetings, pledges to fund effort, and lists various shops and trades embracing seven oclock closing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guild
Hinnie
Dumfries
Liverpool Mercury
Clarendon Rooms
E. Flower
Messrs
J.B. Jackson
J. A. Jackson
Mirams
Scholefield
Mechanics’ Institution
Wnatts
Edinburgh
Scottish Herald
Heiburgh Chronicle
Exeter
Rawway Liagiarzs
Lee
Nicholson
Court of Common Pleas
Justice Cresswell
Court of Exchequer
Wyld
Hopkins
Law Times
Eastern Counties
Norfolk
Yarmouth
Norwich
London
Correspondence on Deacon Imposition of Hands Practice
A reader questions the practice of laying on hands to set apart deacons in Congregational churches. They seek views on scriptural authority and the supposed benefits, arguing the office is secular and comparing it to churchwardens in the state church. They warn the rite may resemble Puseyism and request thoughtful editorials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vurn
Temperance meeting and editorials on trains and science
Friends of the Temperance Society hosted a tea meeting with about seventy attendees. President Mr. Clarke, pastor of the Baptist church, spoke on temperance as a source of strength and spiritual happiness, followed by a poem about sobriety. The item also notes upcoming trains debates in Edinburgh and Glasgow, a Glasgow Exchange protest, Lyell on human remains with megatheroid fossils, a Invermorriston waterspout, and a humorous note on Wellington statues and a John Gilpin caper at Raby Castle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of the Temperance Society
Clarke
Baptist Church
Edinburgh
Glasgow
Glasgow Exchange
Peter Blackburn
Scotsman
Spectator
Natchez
United States
The
Times of
Charles Lyell
Mr. Lyell
Mississippi
Warmsroor
Invermorriston House
Wellington Grenadier
Examiner
Newcastle
Hudson
Duke of Cleveland
Raby Castle
John Gilpin
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Church of Christ
Church of England Journal
Renee
Hamburg
Rome
Henry Pownall
Middlesex
Byng
Morning Post
Reaverton
Tut Dory
Leeds
Blackburn
Dublin
Lord Pontigeron
Pontefract
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