Disturbances Mark Liberty Lectures Across Yorkshire
Reports detail noisy meetings as Mr. Gordon and Rev. W. Best lecture on Liberation Society topics in Wigan Dronfield Skipton Sedbergh and Idle. Audiences hissed sang and disrupted sessions while officers cleared halls and speakers urged fair play and continued debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wigan
Gordon
Dr. Potter
Siokse
Liptrot
Dronfield
Skipton
J. B. Dewhurst
P. Britcliffe
T. Arndson
John Andrew
The
Liberation Society
H. North
North
Sedbergh
Miall
Thomas Harrison
Birks
Leeds
W. Meister
T. Hargreaves
T. Fayers
R. Pool
R. Rennison
Society of Friends
Messrs
J. Guy
J. Punch
A. Trotter
J. Robertson
R. Wheater
J. Handely
Wlof Sedbergh
Robert Welsh
Huddersfield
G. C. Lawrence
St. Paul’s
Best
Church Defence Association
Massingham
Mr. Best
IDLE
Bradford Observer
Charles Turner
G. G. Lawrence
Meetings Planned Across Regions Next Week
A batch of meetings is arranged for next week with the secretary visiting Daventry and Northampton. Edward Jenkins will join in Northampton, while Rev T Adams lectures at Blockley Stow and Shipston. Pattison lectures in the north including Newcastle and Sunderland and Gordon speaks at South Shields with talks in Dronfield and Preston. Williams at Sedgley on the 23rd. February has Midland Counties Devonshire and Scotland meetings listed.
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Daventry
Northampton
Edward Jenkins
The Policy of Nonconformists Address
Manchester January 21 1873 a public address to Nonconformist associations praising rapid progress of their movement and condemning established church compliance with the Bennett Judgment while calling for renewed effort and unity among dissenters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
Norconformist
Richard Johnson Urges Free Church Stand in National Dispute
In a Manchester address, Richard Johnson argues for disestablishment of the Episcopal Church, condemns endowments and Romish education in Ireland, and calls Liberals to adopt church disestablishment as policy. He warns of delays and urges steadfast, prayerful action.
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Free Churches
Episcopal Church
House of Commons
Osborne Morgan
Lords
Education League
Ireland
House of Lords
Commonwealth
Europe
England
Christ
Richard Johnson
The
Manchester Nonconformist Association
Controversy on Nonconformist Growth and Church Endowment
A lengthy letter from Rev. H. H. Moore of Darwen prompts planned response next week as the Independent defends voluntaryism. It argues statistics show Free Churches in towns lead the movement toward disestablishment and endowment reversal, with broad support among informed urban populations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. H. Moore
St. John’s
Darwen
English Independent
England and
Wales
Miall
England
Episcopal Church
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Mr. Brown
Long Woon
W. Best
Mechanic’s Hall
Longwood
Shansey
J.P
Associations OF
Great Britain