England Must Stand Against Savage War and Shame
In a wartime letter from Merry Hill near Wolverhampton F Sonley Johnstone denounces British aggression in South Africa. He condemns frontier killings and imperial prerogatives, urges Parliament to topple the Ministry, and warns that abstaining from protest makes England complicit in bloodshed.
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Elphinstone
Admiralty
Don Quixote
Sancho Panza
Naboth
South Africa
Cetewayo
Ellicott
England
Pilate
F. Sonley Johnstone
Merry Hill
Wolverhampton
Evangelical Critique of Anglican Priesthood and Sacraments
A reader rebukes the Anglican Church from an Evangelical stance, arguing the Prayer Book corrupts gospel truth. He condemns baptismal regeneration and sacerdotalism, cites Scripture to insist forgiveness and salvation belong to God alone, not church office or ordination.
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the Rock
Church of England
Fanny
Christ
A Letter on Evangelical Unions and Papal Influences
A reader signs as M. J. Taylor from Kensington in February 1879. He questions Evangelicals allying with Rome and warns that the Church Establishment grows like its old mother Rome. He urges Evangelicals to separate to avoid sins and plagues and to honor Christ as Emanuel.
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Emanuel
Rome
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of English Congregational Chapel Society
The report at the annual meeting in Memorial Hall London marks twenty five years of work by the English Congregational Chapel Building Society. It details founding aims, methods of lending, governance, and a plan to increase funds to support church buildings and ministers houses across England and Wales.
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Memorial Hall
Farringdon-street
Josiah Alexander
J. C. Gallaway
Old Fleet
Congregational Chapel Building Society
Thomas Wilson
London Chapel Building Society
Derby
Yorkshire Society
Society
Free Churches
England
Wales
Wesleyan Methodists
Highbury Hep
Bristol
Cuaries E. ConDrr
Henry Brown
Bradford
Union Bank of London
Charrrman
Gallaway
Conder
The
Quarterly Review
W. O Curpertson
Congregational Union
Churches of England and Wales
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Evangelicals
A M. J. Taylor
Kensington
English Congregational Chapel Building Society
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