Presbyterians oppose concurrent endowment in Irish Church Bill
Debates in Edinburgh and Dumfermline Presbytery condemn concurrent endowment as a breach of faith and dangerous to public morality. Resolutions urge opposition to any state subsidies to multiple churches and demand full Crown consideration of disestablishment terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Presbyterian Presbytery
Edinburgh
Barlas
Musselburgh
Harper
Leith
Andrew Thomson
Brodie
Marshall
East Calder
Henry Moncreiff
House of Commons
Scotland
House of Lords
Cupar
Gray
Presbytery
Lords
Trish Church
Gladstone
St. Andrew’s
Burghs
Dumfermline
Ireland
Glebe
Presbyterian Church
Lam
Rome
Clergymen Split Over Irish Church Bill Endowment Petition
Clergymen who endorsed last year’s Irish Church Bill now split over concurrent endowment. A list of about 20 signatories opposed to endowment includes Stopford A. Brooke and J. R. Green, while Dean Stanley, Archdeacon Sandford, Canon Westcott, and over 150 others back endowment, among them Dr. A B Evans and W. H. Milman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stopford A. Brooke
H. R. Howess
J. R. Green
E. G. Hancock
James Copner
John Congreve
Chas. Howes
W. R. C. Tilson-Marsh
Bart
John Brown M'Clellan
Thomas Russell
Philip Hains
Charles Anderson
P. B. Brodie
C. Kegan Paul
John Bedford
C. Darby Reade
Thomas Priestly
Thomas Fowler
Alan Gardner Cornwall
G. W. Kitchin
Stopford J. Ram
EB. Reid
D. M. Salter
Stanley and
Liddell
Sandford and Browne
Canon Westcott
Lightfoot
Meeting at Manchester on Irish Church Bill opposition
A large Liberal meeting in Manchester Town Hall condemned the Lords amendments to the Irish Church Bill. Speakers, including Rev. A Thomson and Sir James Watts, urged religious equality and adherence to the Commons bill. Similar meetings in Darwen and Birmingham backed the Commons version, opposing increased endowment and Lords interference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
House of Lords
James Watts
Thomas Ashton
Henry Lee
A. Thomson
M.A
Alderman Rumney
F. Taylor
T. B. Waters
Councillor Murray
Jos. Spencer
I. Willis
H. W. Parkinson
Rochdale
W. H. Davidson
Bolton
Jesse Bryant
Jos. Leese
Warburton
A. Ireland
H. Booth
J. B. M’kerrow
Thomas Peel
W. Howe
Watts
J. H. Raper
Thomas Green
A. Ashton
G. Kearley
House of Commons
Ireland
Francis ‘Taytox
Honcy Mason
Tuas
Astitox
Liberal Party
Braxp
England
Europe
E. Boyer
Jas. Watts
Marquis of Salisbury
Gladstone
Brackburn
Darwen
Datxerra Liberation Committee
Birmincham
Liberal Association
J. S. Wright
Alderman Hawkes
John Jaffray
Councillor Harris
Archdeacon Sandford
Lords
Birmingham
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the Times
Macnaughtan
Belfast
Irish Presbyterian Church
General Assembly
Dowse
M.P
Derry
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