Debates on English rural labour and education reforms
A letter-writer argues agricultural labourers improve when freed from servitude and criticizes emigration, parish schools under priests, and Catholic and Nonconformist schooling. He cites Labourers Union costs and a Berkshire case, warning landlords to prevent village depopulation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hodge
Darwin
England
Agricultural Labourers’ Union
Leamington
Canada
Amon
Berkshire
Arch
Christ
To the Editor of the Nonconformist on Wilberforce memorial
A letter criticizes Mr Gladstone for proposing a national memorial to Bishop Wilberforce. The writer argues the tribute would be Episcopal rather than national, noting Wilberforce’s perceived bigotry and inconsistency and opposing the memorial as inappropriate for all Britons.
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Carmarthen
Latimer Jones
Liberal Party
W. Morris
Morris
Mr. Morris
Archdeacon Williams
Tory
Johnstown
Church of England
Bishop Wilberforce
Gladstone
Willis
Wilberforce Memorial Fund
Increased Circulation Sought for Congregationalist in 1874
A Bradford reader urges wider distribution of the Congregationalist. He praises editor Rev. R. W. Dale for standing against priestly tyranny and defending religious liberty. He appeals to Free Churchmen and Englishmen to support the paper in 1874.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Congregationalist
Free Churchmen of England
R. W. Dale
Dale
Rome
England
Corrections to a hymn notice in the Nonconformist
A reader objects to a hymn attributed to my father in the Nonconformist and finds it mangled in metre. The piece, titled From the Life of Robert Charleton, is oddly signed An Invalid and appears on page 117 of Hymns of Praise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Charleton
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Arthur Clayden
School Board Chronicle
John Falstaff
Hias
Education Department
F. Sandford
Priory-street
Pistol
Nonconformist
Bradford
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