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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Jul 21, 1875
Page
2
A speaker denounces Papal influence and internal dissent within the Church of England. He warns of a papal aristocracy in Parliament and urges loyalty to Protestantism against perceived Catholic incursions. He declares Humanists must not sacrifice Protestant liberties for Romanist pressures.
In the Arch Court, Sir R. Phillimore ruled in Jenkins v. the Rev. Cook that the Rubric and Canon allowed a clergyman to refuse Holy Communion to a parishioner deemed an “evil liver.” The judge found Jenkins’s denial of eternal punishment and Satan as opposing church teaching, upholding the bishop’s advice and ordering dismissal with costs, with appeal noted.
A Buckingham vicar barred the T White funeral party from military honours, provoking an indignation meeting attended by a large crowd. The Bucks Advertiser notes strong public backlash against clerical interference with a fallen volunteer's burial and calls for national rights in church-state matters.
A large Monday night meeting condemned the conduct of Rev. W. F. Norris and Captain Hearn in the funeral of Thomas White of the 8rd Bucks Rifle Volunteers. After resolutions, bands led the crowd through town with groans at the vicarage as the procession passed, the vicarage family away.
A deputation from St Alban’s Holborn Working Men’s Protest Committee, claiming 525 parishioners, urged Archbishop to intervene in Rev A H Mackonochie’s suspension. The archbishop refused to overrule church courts and urged obedience to law and clergy to follow the Prayer Book. The group left, with no change at St Alban’s. Later, A H Stanton led a Ritualist communion at St Vedast’s, Foster Lane.
Government orders secrecy for priest submission declarations amid Ultramontane pressure. Pope approves Bavarian bishops pastorals urging Roman Catholic voters to back Ultramontane candidates in elections.
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