Quaker Society Moves to End Annual Tithe Statistics
The Yearly Meeting sanctioned ending the long standing inquiry into tithe commutation payments, citing improved compliance. Agricultural Friends led the push while opposed by some leaders, with a pledge to preserve the Testimony against state ecclesiastical demands. The meeting also plans international arbitration advocacy and expands a chapel loan fund to accelerate church building.
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Essex
Suffolk
John Littleboy
Newport Pagnell
Stafford Allen
London
James Clarke
Street
Glastonbury
Yearly Meeting
J. Bevan Braithwaite
John Hodgkin
Agricultural Friends
Bright
House of Commons
Society of Friends
Henry Richard
M.P
America
Great Britain
T. Aveling
E. RK. Conder
de Kewer Williams
Gilbert
English Chapel-building Society celebrates twenty years of aid
A conference at Cannon Street Hotel after the Congregational Union dinner commemorated twenty years of the English Chapel-building Society. John Crossley presided, and Rev J C Gallaway outlined the society’s historical aims and growth from a London focus to a national aid organization over about thirty years.
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English Chapel-building Society
Cannon-street Hotel
Congregational Union
John Crossley
J. C. Gallaway
Thomas Wilson
London
Reverend ministers gather for regional church events
A series of church gatherings across Stockport Newport Leamington Nottingham and Oxfordshire feature sermons on ministry work nonconformist principles and church renewal. Notable speakers include Rev. W A Blake Rev A Bray Rev S T Dickinson and Rev J Woodhouse with community members attending in large numbers.
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Stockport
W. A. Blake
Crewe
the Tabernacle
A. J. Bray
Manchester
S. T. Dickinson
J. T. Woodhouse
Southport
Tabernacle
R. Henshaw
A. Phillips
A. Clarke
J. Harker
Newport
Isce
Wiaur
Tuesay
St. James-street
Morrison Neiwland
J. Bandon
Septimus March
B. A
Southampton
W. Jellie
Gosport
J. E. Flower
M.A. Basingstoke
Leamington
Holly Walk Congregational Church
Attenborough
H. Allen
London
Newth
Lancashire
Nottingham
J. Morley Wright
St James’s Street
Bond-street
Leicester
Wright
The
Notts Con
Edinburgh Newsroom Emplo ys 40 to 50 Women Compositors
An Edinburgh newspaper reports it uses between forty and fifty women as compositors in its print shop highlighting gender roles in the late era.
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Edinburgh
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J. Matheson
B.A
Notts Congregational Union
C. Clemance
W. R. Stevenson
M.A
J. B. Dougherty
Presbyterian
J. W. H. Valentine
Northfleet
Mr. Wright
Oxford
Antrep
Congregational Churches
Christian Union
Witrs and
East Somerset Congregational Union
Warminster
C. E. B. Reed
A. Hannay
Hannay
P. le Gros
C. Reed
M. P
Rowland
Mann
Gunn
Durrell
Baptist Church
Jupe
C. Reed, Esq
T. Ruddock
Oxfordshire Baptist Association
Oxford Association of Baptist Ministers
Blockley
Baptist Chapel
E. Miall
Fsq
Asg
Plimsoll
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