Open air preaching discussed at London conference
A London evangelical conference debated lay preachers and open air sermons. Speakers urged careful language and audience contact, while stressing spiritual benefit and growth through faithful preaching. A motion praised lay preaching and called for coordinated preparation and biannual meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Watson
Christian Instruction Society
Evangelical
London
Townazy
Coarnman
Clergymen Change Posts and Large London Mission Plans
The Rev J B Lister takes the pastorate at Brighouse Independent church while Rev B Bond moves to Chinnor Oxfordshire. Dr Hanna covers for Rev Alexander in Spain for a five to six Sabbaths. Leicester and Warwick see resignations and farewells as W Woods departs for Australia. A new west London church aims for 4000 seats at Free Tabernacle with 10,000 cost. Brackley Street Mission reports a 270 child Christmas dinner and 400 parents tea. Monmouth and South Wales Home Missionary Society shifts name and supports nonconformist marriages. A Baptist chapel opens at Potter Bar with debt details and gifts, and Hatsrear hosts a large Congregational anniversary fundraising.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Lister
James Street Chapel
Blackburn
Independent Church
Brighouse
B. Bond
Range Bank
Halifax
Chinnor
Oxfordshire
Daily Review
Alexander
Holy Land
Hanna
George J. Allen
Warwick
Leicester
W. Woods
Oxford Street Chapel
Australia
Preston
J. A. Picton
M.A
R. Harley
Alderman G. Baines
Stafford
Spain
British and Foreign Bible Society
Velera
Henry Varley
London
Free Tabernacle
William Morley
John Offord
Jesse Hobson
C. Graham
W. H. Burton
Brackley-street
Barsroad
Messrs. J. and
R. Morley
Wood-street
Mission Hall
James Harvey
Gresham-street
Samuel Morley
W. Pennefather
A. S. Ashworth
Society of Friends
T. A. Blest
Messrs. Morley
RotHzma
Congregational Church
Henry Lee
Hsq
Manchester
H. Wynne
Parkgate
Christian Fellowship of
Christian Brethren
Campbell
Bradford
G. Whitehead
J. Thomason
J. W. Richardson
R. Stainton
Society
South Wales
Monmouthshire
Home Missionary Society For
R. Hughes
Tredegar
Henry Richard
Sonpay-schoois
Duckworth-street
Congregational Unday-Schools
Darwen
T. Davies
Lower
Potter Bar
Hears
Baptists
T. G. Atkinson
Colney Hatch
W. Brock
Hampstead
Hsg
London Association of Baptist Churches
Harvey
A. A. Croll
R. Ware
R. Wilkinson
W. Joy
Hatfield
L. Brown
Totteridge
R. J. Burbidge
T. Given Wilson
Have Church Rates Wholly Ceased Question to Editor
A correspondent asks if church rates have truly ended and cites a parish where rates were enforced after the Abolition Bill. He notes a collector demanding payment and mentions a railway company as a voluntary payer, warning that railway directors may influence parish charges through ecclesiastical bias.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sizk
Midland
Midland Company
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Morley
M.P
J. Morris
J. Blomfield
R. Baxter
J. Fowell
William Fowler
J. Atkinson
W. H. Foy
General Burrows
T. B. Smithies
T. Peckston
John Gritton
Clerkenwell
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