Rise in the Church and Faithful Opposition to Establishment
A critic condemns Anglican conformity, warns that clerics brave enough to challenge ecclesiastical authority risk ruin from state power. He decries lax laity, unedifying pastors, and neglect of scriptural discipline, urging unity for revival while opposing the Established Church and awaiting parliamentary change. Tim Wilkinson signs from Torquay on January 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
England
Oxford
Cambridge
Wardley replies to York Anti state church resolution
Sir G E Wardley, late West Riding candidate, responds to the York branch resolution. He argues the public is not ready to separate Church and State and that the Establishment still holds influence over large congregations. He doubts practical separation while clergy remain broadly supported by Protestants.
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G. E. Wardley
West Riding of Yorkshire
York
Anti-state Church Association
Dissenters Refuse Church Rate in St Stephen's Parish Bristol
A Bristol court hears Thomas Mathews and other Dissenters object to paying a church rate of eight shillings ninepence. Mathews argues conscience forbids funding establishment worship, while officials insist the rate must be paid. The report condemns church patronage and discusses broader church state tensions and clerical controversies.
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St. Stephen’s
Thomas Mathews
Mathews, Brothers, Printers, &c
Burges
Mathews
St. Stephen's
St. Stephen's Church
Barrier Novus Farewell to the Miramish
Writing in Jerrald's Weekly News the Church is described as endowed by the State with abundance of goods and aggrandised like a stalled ox. The piece calls it a Prize Church, an incubus on dissenters, funded by unbelievers, and constrained by a golden chain limiting its expansion to state permission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reapinos
Miramish- Ment
Church Mouse
Jerrald
Weekly News
Smithfield Club
Warning To Passengers After Tragedy At Teignmouth Station
A young woman’s attempt to reboard a moving train at Teignmouth station ended in her death as wheels passed over her. The victim, a lady’s maid travelling with her mistress, fell while pursuing entry to a carriage and failed to recover. In another incident at Edinburgh Caledonian Railway, a fire destroyed sheds and carriages causing about seven thousand pounds in damage with unknown origin.
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Teignmouth
Raiway
Eprxprian
Caledonian
Edinburgh
Tig Mant
Anenpeen
Aberdeen
Ulvbe
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Church of England
T. J. Wilkinson
Sq. C.K. Warbley
Torquay
Sir Calling Eardley Eardley
Churcil
Slate
Church Rates
Bristol
Mr. M
Churchwarden Nash
Nash
Greville
Eeclesiastical Court
Mr. Greville
Solomon
George Cruikshank
Messrs
Seaton
Chapman
Samuel
William
Alfred Tanner
Leporetto
Rome
Geneva
Noel
Church and State Gazette
X. Y
Abingdon
Erks
Robert Hall
Lithle
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