Disestablishment debate on church funding in Stockport meeting
Discussion centers on public endowments for the Church of England and disestablishment. Speakers urge that state funds support education and religious life, noting religious property and parish church history. A Dudley meeting echoes calls for ending endowment with claims of national benefit and fair compensation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
America
Major McClure
Clarke
St. Thomas’s Church
Stockport
Fin Ys
Church of England
Strephenson Rosinson
Fisher Addresses Staffordshire Meeting on Failures of Establishments
Mr Fisher spoke at Staffordshire Town Hall on Establishments a Failure. The crowd-filled hall heard a statistical critique using 1851 census data showing 18 percent churchgoers and 29.6 percent church sittings, illustrating the nation’s religious provision gaps as discussed by Mr Cross’s earlier remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
MR. Fisher
Staffordshire
Brierley Hitt
Fisher
Town Hall
Corham
Staffordshire Advertiser
Cross
Kirkdale
England
Lectures on Establishment Church Draw Crowded Meetings
Multiple towns report lectures by William Clarke and Browne condemning the Established Church as unreformed and unjust. In Dalton-in-Furness Barrow and Bakewell hear spirited debates with chaired remarks from Rev. Braithwaite and Rev. Mirams. Local clergy defend or oppose State Establishment amid applause and dispute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalton-In-Furness
William Clarke
Cambridge
Co-operative Hall
J. G. Anderson
Lindal
Clarke
Dalton
Barrow-in-Furniss
W. Clarke
Braithwaite
Lone Eaton
Alderman Longdon
Derby
William Green
H. W. Earp
Bakewell
Friends’ Meeting
Thomas Mirams
Browne
Lord Rochester
John Jones
Browne Lectures Across Several Towns on Disestablishment
Mr Browne delivered lectures in Belper and Marnock addressing disestablishment and compensation for curates. In Belper Jabez Brown and Calvert spoke to resolutions. in Marnock Mr Browne discussed curates and beneficed clergy compensation. Additional talks occurred in Leros and Twickenham with strong audience attendance and receptive questions.
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Leros
J. Andrew
North Street Baptist Chapel
R. Horsfield
Twickenham
G. Kearley
Baptist Chapel
J. Cowdy
E. H. Brown
Kearley
Ecclesiastical notes on Durham see and church matters
A long address of 531 clergy to Bishop of Durham expresses sympathy during illness and regret over the severance of ties. Reports cover Madame Sakalarius in Athens seeking school reopening under religious conditions, burial rights in France, Scottish church politics, Durham bishopric appointment of Rev Joseph Lightfoot, and his Cambridge career and publications.
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Durham
Athens
M. Angelinos
Madame Sakalarius
Rom
Scoton
London
Manchester Guardian
Alexander Gordon
Parker
Helms
Orr Ewing
Dumbartonshire
Scotland
Story
Roseneath
Tur New Bisner
Joseph Lightfoot
St. Paul’s
Margaret
Cambridge
Baring
Lightfoot
Liverpool
Trinity College
Norrisian University
Manchester
Her
Hulsean
University of Cambridge
Tait
Canterbury
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H. Carder
G. W. Tooley
Duprey
Dudley
C. Cochrane
Carder
Billing
Gladstone
Ireland
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