Empty East London churches spark disestablishment debate
A Church Times correspondent reports low attendances at Establishment churches in Bethnal Green and Rotherhithe with totals in four parishes at 156 adults. Critics urge disestablishment as a remedy while Nonconformists fill their chapels and the Church of England struggles to mobilize clergy and lay help.
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Church Times
Rotherhithe
St. Mary’s
Psuet
St. Paul’s
Chapel-Of-Ease
St. Arnabas
Holy Trinity
7 Times
London
Doles
M’gachen
Sion College
Jeane
Times
John D. M’gahen
Bethnal-green
Church of England
Church of the
Elysian Fields
Akenham Burial Case Fund Presented At Ipswich
At the Golden Lion Hotel Ipswich a 900-pound public subscription fund was presented to Mr F W Wilson editor of the Last Anglian Daily Times for defraying costs in Drury v Wilson. The event, semi private, featured Lord John Hervey absent and speeches by Rev J A Hervey and Mr Clarke.
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Golden Lion
Ipswich
Drury v. Wilson
F. W. Wilson
Anglian Daily Times
John Hervey
Elliston
Richard
M.P
London
Cornwall
Alfred J. Shepheard
James Clarke
Christian World
Suffolk
Carvell Williams
Cranks
Wilson
Clarke
Akenham
Gentleman
Tozer
Hast Anglian Daily Times
Joseph Smith
Edmund Gooding