Seventy Ninth Congregational Association meets at Folkestone
Rev. John Kennedy of Stepney salutes the church and welcomes Mr Jenkins as a fellow-worker. The Folkestone gathering opens with sermons by Rev. J. Thomson and a Lord's Supper, then ministers and delegates discuss ordination and recognition. The evening session under Mr Morley MP aims to raise income while ministers debate rural church life and home missions. Burgess Hill opens the iron Congregational Free Church with 500 pounds cost, dedicatory prayers, liturgical form trials, and a large tent social. The examiners review Greek Hebrew Latin and theology, with Dr Angus noting 600 preaching engagements and a debt of 1131. The chairman warns against lukewarm faith. Dr Culross urges scripture expositors to seek fitness via prayer and fidelity.
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John Kennedy
Stepney
Congregational Union
East London
Jenkins
W. Tyler
Mile
Newtown
Professor McAll
Hackney College
Kent Congregational Association
Folkestone
J. R.homson
Tunbridge Wells
John
G. L. Herman
Chatham
Morley
Joshua Wilson
A. Turner
Ashford
D. G. Watt
Maidstone
J. H. Wilson
London
BricguTon
Congregational Free Church
Burgess Hill
Tapper
J. Edmond
D.D
H. Quick
Brighton
P. Eldridge
R. Hamilton
J. Stuchberry
J. Verrall
F. G. Sharpe
Y. H. Cullis
Church of England
Tower House
D. Pratt
Cuckfield
G. H. Rouse
M.A
Hurndall
F. Bosworth
Exeter
Booth
Angus
Hersch
Butler
Underhill
Roberts
J. H. Mill
Culross
Highbury
D. Jones
B.A
Brixton
Evening Soirée Closes Session at Colle ges and Schools
The 1870 71 session ended on Tuesday July 4 with a large evening soirée. John Macgregor presided at seven after prayer by Rev Dr Broadus. Rev Dr Angus said 38 students attended the classes, including 25 ministerial. four non residents. Seven ministerial and six lay students have left or will leave to fill vacancies. Eight applications already came in and three or four more expected. Exam papers were provided independently by examiners, separate from committee and teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Macgregor
Rob Roy
Broadus
United States
Angus
Hackney Theological Seminary Confirms New Short Title
The sixty eighth annual meeting at Adelphi Chapel Hackney road reviewed the Homes Jubilee Prize essay Conversion and its Counterfeits. Rev Wardlaw Turner and Rev G Lyon Turner received praise for leadership while finances showed receipts of 2834 pounds and a 138 pound balance with generous legacies and a potential 100 pound annual grant. The group settled on the shorthand name Hackney College for the institution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hackney Theological Seminary
Adelphi
Hackney Road
J. G. Stapleton
Thomas Bagley
Wardlaw
G, Ransom
G. Lyon Turner
London University
James Room
John Muller
Clement Dukes
Charlton
Western College
Josiah Viney
Dr. Evans
Cheshunt College
S. Wardlaw McAll
Finchley
A. Ramsay
Evangelical Association For the Propagation of the Gospel
Hackney Theological Seminary and Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
Hackney College
W. Bevan
D. M. Jenkins
S. McAll
G. Halsey
Anerley
Alexandra Orphanage for Infants Benefit Déjeuner
Friends of the Alexandra Orphanage at Hornsey Rise gathered in the building dining-hall on Thursday for a déjeuner presided over by the Earl of Shaftesbury with Lord Ebury assisting. Seven years prior supporters of the Orphan Working School at Haverstock Hill sought to aid infants.
Alexandra Orphanage and Aged Pilgrims’ Asylum Charity Report
The Alexandra Orphanage foundations receive 118 infants across four cottages with capacity for 200 and plans for 400. Total yearly house expenses ran 1,468 pounds 1s 9d, averaging about 13 pounds 19s per child, with debt on the main building of 9,500 pounds hindering expansion. Donations exceeded 300 pounds plus 50 and 20 pounds pledges, while the nearby Aged Pilgrims’ Asylum, opened last week, cost 12,500 pounds funded largely by 12,000 pounds from Mr Box’s bequest.
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Alexandra Orphanage
Joseph Soul
Clarke
Saul
Soul
J. Edmonds
Thos. Binney
W. Fleming
R. Gunnery
Samuel Morley
M.P
Waterlow
George Moore
Pilgrims’ Asylum
Box
Endowed Schools under Nonconformist Watch in Manchester
A correspondent thanks Watchman for a letter urging attention to endowed schools reform. The author notes ongoing committee efforts and House scrutiny with a Commons member ready to take necessary steps. A Manchester conference in autumn aims to address Endowed Schools and related hearings.
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House of Commons
Manchester
Liverpool
Birmingham
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