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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jan 24, 1872
Page
3
The minister died on Sunday after a long struggle with heart disease. His decline followed a severe August attack, though he had shown partial recovery. He leaves a widow, three sons including two in ministry, and a daughter.
Notices show Edwin Osborne taking a pastorate at Carlton Baptist Chapel in Southampton and W. Anderson accepted for King's-road Reading. Crassweller begins at Islington’s Cross Street Chapel, succeeding Bailhache. Congregational meetings discuss uniting Independent churches in London, while Claremont Chapel inaugurates a jubilee organ after repairs. Bethesda Bethesda Rees preaches at Victoria Hall with crowded service. Yorkshire Congregational Union explores formation of a single regional body with Home Missionary Society, welcoming visitors to York.
The meeting closed with praise for the two York churches and their ministers and deacons. Rev. B Dale of Halifax proposed a vote of thanks to the York ministers and deacons for their kind and hospitable reception. Revs Slingworth and Parsons responded as the gathering concluded.
A letter critiques an Edinburgh Review article arguing the Established Church must align with Liberal policy or risk disestablishment. It suggests the clergy face a choice between state Church allegiance and political neutrality, warning Liberal leaders to improve relations with the Church without alienating Nonconformists.
A 1872 letter from C Shepheard on behalf of Protestant Dissenters to Gladstone warns against endowing a Roman Catholic university in Ireland. The memorial urges that Trinity College and Dublin University remain open to all religious groups, with faculty and studies free from sectarian control, and opposes any endowment that privileges one faith.
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