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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Feb 02, 1870
Page
4
Building Committee reported new galleries and other improvements at the church allowing 1200 seating, with costs over 1600 paid 1000. An appeal led to contributions and by Sunday evening 902 remained unsubscribed, then promises secured the debt clearance.
Dear Sir asks readers to help fund compensation for Welsh electors punished for political courage in the last general election. Treasurers are EK M Richards MP Swansea and Morgan Lloyd Temple London. A London branch meets at Hanover Square Rooms on February 7 with Morley MP chairing.
A Scottish point of view argues disestablishment in Scotland is likely after Ireland’s change. The piece traces the Disruption, patronage battles, and Free Church gains, noting the abolition of patronage as a step toward liberty and the potential path to disestablishment, while observers watch political divides between clergy and laity.
A letter argues for a Sustentation Fund from England to support West Indian clergy and teachers. The writer notes colonial underfunding, urges accumulating Home Government aid for a decade to fund free compulsory schooling in Jamaica and other islands, and appeals to both Churchmen and Dissenters to back the initiative.
The editor discusses the national issue of education and whether the State owes religious instruction to its children. It notes the consensus on compulsory education and questions how the state can provide schooling while addressing religious instruction.
A letter argues England as a Christian state should teach the Bible in public schools. It supports the Educational Union plan with a conscience clause to manage religious instruction and warns that removing the Bible would be a fatal mistake for the English nation.
A letter critiques a pamphlet on Papal Infallibility as a fraud and questions whether the Pope can be infallible. It cites Leo X and Cardinal Carafa, notes challenges to defining infallibility, and recalls medieval councils, bishops, and Saint Boniface in a discussion on the limits of papal authority.
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