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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 09, 1878
Page
8
The piece notes rifts within the Liberal party as Mr. Forster opposes disestablishment while Lord Hartington counsels patience. Supporters in Bradford and Parliament expect alienation and division, with critics claiming Forster risks leadership by challenging his constituents.
The Scotsman commentary argues the Duke of Argyll fails to win support for patronage reform and warns that secular and sectarian critiques frame disestablishment as inevitable. It cites Gladstone, secularists, and the need for Scotland to embrace voluntaryism, ending state support for an Established Church.
The North British Daily Mail critiques the Duke of Argyll arguing the 1874 Act weakens the case for a state church monopoly. It contends the establishment’s endowments lack reciprocal benefit and questions the claim of the church’s exclusive privilege given broad freedom and the large-scale voluntary churches in Scotland.
The piece argues that national Church rights must be fixed by the State and condemns the lax definition of church membership. It notes the Duke of Argyll’s claim that Scotland’s Kirk reforms itself while both great Scottish sects enjoy State funds. It warns that without a national basis for the Church, disestablishment may be the only answer as the Free Church moves toward it.
The author questions Dr. Parker's stance on associating with irreligious figures to advance religious liberty from State control. He distinguishes two Nonconformist camps and argues Parker's sixth point about disestablishment remains illogically tied to his six points. The piece prompts reflection on whether a Christian ally on a platform with anti-religious figures can still justify disestablishment.
The author argues that true Dissent rejects the Establishment yet questions how Parker's views handle exclusions. He invokes John Howard Hinton and W F Newman to probe whether allied reformers would work with anti establishment figures, and contends civil liberty motivates Liberationists to oppose state interference in religion regardless of faith.
The Surrey Comet reports on Canon Garbett’s appointment to the Barcombe Sussex living and critiques the process. It highlights tensions over pay from national sources, absentee incumbents, and a dismissed local curate amid church politics and Lord Chancellor Cairns’s role.
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