Mission at Tanganyika Looms From Ujiji Headquarters
The text describes creating a fund nucleus to establish a mission on Lake Tanganyika with headquarters at Ujiji, led by a committee to plan a prudent start, citing missionary labors as a peaceful opening for trade and civilised life. It also notes planned anniversary sermons by Morley Punshon and J Macfadyen, with Henry Lee presiding at Exeter Hall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Tanganyika
Ujiji
Stanley
Livingstone
London Missionary Society
Morley Punshon
Surrey Chapel
J. Macfadyen
Manchester
Westminster Chapel
Exeter Hall
Henry Lee, Esq
J.P
Home Missionary Society
Nile
Egypt
Old
England
Wales
Home Mission
Samuel Morley
London Baptist Association
Metropolitan Tabernacle
W. G. Lewis
Westbourne Grove
S. Green
C. H. Spurgeon
Dr. Landers
T. Vincent Tymme
D. Jones
B.A
W. Howiecon
J. T. Wigner
Landers
Archibald G. Brown
J. Harvey
William Brock
Highgate
Messrs. Moody and Sunkey
London
Tabernacle
Spurgeon
Caleb
Daniel Deronds to be published in eight monthly parts
George Eliot plans a February start for a new serialized work described as eight monthly parts akin to Middlemarch. The project, titled The Spoiled Child, will be issued under the name Trvok L. and associated with Marion Evans Lewes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daniel Deronds
George Eliot
Marion Vans
G. H. Lewes
Trvok L
New Ecclesiastical Test Questioned in Education Policy
A letter to the Nonconformist criticizes a newly created test linked to public elementary day schools under a recent Parliament act. The writer argues that banning sectarian exclusiveness at universities and endowed schools while tolerating it in primary schools undermines religious equality and calls for parliamentary intervention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Str
Friends of Religious Equality
Education Department
J. Carvell Williams
Wanted certificated mistress for mixed school near Faversham
A school board advertisement from December 1875 and January 1876 seeks a certificated mistress for a mixed school near Faversham Kent with about sixty pupils, duties in singing and sewing, salary 70 pounds plus housing. A pupil teacher position is also advertised with applications to Allen Tassell Graveney UD School Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis R. Sandford
School Board
Faversham
Kent
Allen Tassell
Graveney U.D
Wrentham British School Receives Donations Appeal
George S. Barrett appeals for aid to Rev. J Browne of Wrentham noting he is over 100 pounds out of pocket after three years of efforts to keep the British School open. Donations from G Gibb and others are listed and readers urged to refund Browne’s costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wrentham
Browne
Geo. S. Barrett
Thorpe Hamlet
Norwich
Clergy Secularly and Socially discussed by Rev S B James
A reader conveys a review of Rev S B James's essays including a piece titled The Clergy Secularly and Socially. The notice notes his reflection on Dissenting chapels and worship and mentions forthcoming art and philosophy works by Titian, Durer, and Moritz Thausing as well as St George Mivart's Contemporary Evolution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray
Titian
Cavatcaselle
A. Crowe
Albert Durer
Moritz Thausing
St. George Mivart
Messrs
Henry
King and Co
Clerical Office and Conventicle Critique in A Frequenter of Conventicles
A letter-writer attacks Mr James's view of the Anglican clergy and ordination, arguing there is no real identity of distinctiveness between church and conventicle. He contrasts inspiration, worship, and sacred elements with those of nonconformist practice, noting Spurgeon and High Church tensions, and closes with a plea for calmer tones.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Brennus
Belus
Israel
James
David
Shakespeare
Bucks
Spurgeon
Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton
Tan
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Serjeants’inn
Whitehall
P. Cummin
J.C. Williams
Head, Esq
Bletchingley
Ff. R. Sanprorp
S. B. James
B. James
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