Compulsory Church-rates Abolition Bill Likely to Pass
The article notes the bill’s progress through readings and Lords amendments, with bishops and dissenters debating rights, while anticipating July 1868 as the year it becomes law. It reviews related Evangelical gatherings, State Endowments, and a Demerara clergy list controversy.
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Ireland
Oxford
Reynard
House of Lords
London
Gloucester
Bristol
Lord Eldon
Lord Lyttelton
Tory
Lord Cairns
Daily News
Commons
Lords
Irish Church Commission Report Delayed Over Deductions
The Record reports the Irish Church Commissioners’ report will not be ready as soon as the House of Commons indicated. New calculations on deductions claimed by prelates may raise the surplus episcopal income available to underpaid working clergy. A Glasgow move seeks a large organ for the cathedral at a cost around 3000 pounds. Dr. Cunningham’s action against a Crieff church organ controversy press slander is valued at 1000 pounds.
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Ipswich
Archdeacon Prest
E. Garbett
Harrison
Demerara
Joseph Ketley
Georgetown
Ketley
Cesar
Christ
Congregationalists of England
London Missionary Society
Liberation Society
Archbishop Manning
Hanover Square
St. Thomas’s Church
Rome
Manning
St. Thomas
Thomas A.beckett
House of Commons
Glasgow
Venerable
Cunningham
Crieff
Edinburgh
Broad Church Theory of a State Church Letter on Liberty and Law
The writer argues that settling religious questions by national law may threaten liberty, noting both sides of the Established Church debate. He asserts personal freedom from ecclesiastical pressure, rejects mandatory legal governance, and reflects on costs of liberty, faith, and public life in a broad church context.
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Church of Scotland
Free Church
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Regium Donum
Court of
Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, D.D
Deban
Westminster
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