Contempt and Suspension in Purchas Case at Brighton Church
The Lords ordered Mr. Purchas suspended for one year and found him in contempt for non payment of costs totaling 2,0961.14s.10d. A sequestration on his property was directed. Re Vicar Purchas faced strong denunciations as to secular interference in spiritual duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James’s Church
Brighton
Purchas
Privy Council
Christ
Diocese of London
Furse
Holy Trinity
Brompton
Religious and Denominational Schemes and Missions
Report covers church collections for foreign and home missions with totals. notes China and India missions at 395, home mission 2111, Somers Town 360. Farnham Congregational plans a new 600-seat church costing about 4000 with 1700 pledged. Multiple chapel and ministerial updates across Stroup, WESLEY, Liverpool, and Regent Square with building, resignations, loans, and town missions.
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China
India
Donald Matheson
Stewart
Presbyterian Church In
England
Alexander
Farnham
J. W. Pewtress
Thos. Simpson
Herbert Arnold
J. Hart
Guildford
F. M. Holmes
Alton
J. Marshall
Godalming
W. Hazell
G. Allen
Congregational Church
Stockton-on-Tees
Thomas Grear
Rotherham College
Long Buckby
Northamptonshire
Strroup
W. Wheeler
Bedford Street
Wersleyyan
Wesleyan Chapel Committee
Liverroot
Claremont Chapel
Fountain-road
Liverpool
Westminster Road
Roek
William Duckworth
F. Wallace
Samuel Pearson
Great George-street Independent
John Jones
Chadwick
Mount Tilependens
George Lord
Regent-square
Hamilton
J. O. Dykes
Somers’ Town
Regent Square
Patrick Stewart
Association For
United Presbyterians and the Scotch Education Act
A letter to the editor argues the United Presbyterians uphold voluntary religious education within national schools. It rebuts a claim that they support state enacting catechism teaching, stating their synod’s position favors secular schooling with parental church provision and a timetable conscience clause.
Debate Over Lord Advocate Bill Sparks Church Education Clash
In Greenock a Feb 1872 note questions the United Presbyterian Synod stance on state funding and school teaching. The letter argues the bill allows school boards to teach any religion and may endorse the Shorter Catechism, provoking concern among United Presbyterians about secular and sectarian instruction and the use of public funds for religious teaching.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Presbyterians
Young
United Presbyterian Synod
Committee of Synod
Supreme Court
Scotland
Lord Advocate
J. M
Voluntaries
Peddie
United Presbytery of
Edinburgh
United Presbyterian
Scolsmai
United Presbyterian Church
United Presbyterian Church of Scotland
Dean Stanley Over the Border
A letter to the Nonconformist editor criticizes Dean Stanley for a raid on Dissenters and his narrow view of breadth. The writer mocks Stanley’s national church idea and imagines a comic animal collage including a Papist panther and an Independent bear.
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Dean Stanley
The
Nonconformist
Matthew Arnold
Dean
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