Measure for Alteration of the Law of Patronage
A motion to draft a bill aligning with General Assembly principles was carried 241 to 68 after support from E 8 Gordon and others. An amendment to delay proceedings until government direction was defeated, with backers including Rev Dr Pirie and Sir Robert Anstruther.
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Gordon
M.P
Bisset
Bourne
Beecher Leads Social Union Talk at Brooklyn Meeting
The seventeenth social reunion of the American Congregational Union was held at the Brooklyn Academy of Music on May 12 with Rev. Henry Ward Beecher presiding. Speakers praised liberty of diversity among denominations and celebrated Pilgrim heritage and constitutional liberty as the crowd heard reminiscences and praise for Lyman Beecher and Horace Bushnell.
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American Congregational Union
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Henry Ward Beecher
Palmer
Beecher
Peter
Cornelius
Christ
Lord Jesus Christ
Great Northern
London
Edinburgh
Great Britain
Jhat
Yorkshire
Lincolnshire
John Bull
United States
England
Plymouth Rock
Parliament House
House of Lords
House of Commons
Delft Haven
Holland
Scrooby
Plymouth
Old Colony
Boston
Governor Carver
Rose Standish
Saturda
Captain Standish
Burial-hill
Holmeses
Harlowes
Bradfords
Barlows
Miles Standish
Holmes
Standish
Marshfield
Webster
Lebanon
Sumter
Anderson
Theodore Cuyler
Dr. Skinner
Skinner
Lyman Beecher
God
Abraham Lincoln
Litchfield
Henry
Jesus
Unions and church notices span British towns and missions
The Dunfermline church calls on MP Robert French. Dr. Turner returns to supervise Samoa Bible editions in London. Rev D Anthony to lead Devizes Congregational Church from June. Sion Chapel Bradford to build chapel and schools costing 12000 to 13000. Wesleyan returns show net gain near 3000 with London up and Cornwall down. Samuel Ransom to leave Hackney College after forty years. Cremain Mission reports conference in Portman-square and a talk on Christian Evidences. Leintwarping opens new Congregational Chapel for Divine worship.
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United Presbyterian Church
Dunfermline
Fife
Robert French
Glasgow
Turner
South Seas
London
Samoa
D. Anthony
Congregational Church
Tenby
Devizes
Bravforp
Sion Chapel
Bradford
J. P. Chown
Cornwall
Hackney Courtar
Samuel Ransom
London University
Crenain Mission
Lower Seymour-street
Portman-square
Baron Pigott
Samuel Wainwright
Islington
Leintwarping
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Brother Beecher
America
East Hampton
Long Island
New England
American Bible Society
West
Gray Head
Horace Bushnell
C. B. Crane