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Scottish Church Patronage Debate Heats In Parliament
The article outlines pressures within the Free Church and United Presbyterians amid union talks and patronage reform. It notes Gladstone's hints and Earl of Airlie's drive to court a parliamentary inquiry, signaling shifts in Scotland's church-state relations and a growing push for disestablishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Church
Church of Scotland
England
United Presbyterians
United Body
Powe
Frees
U.p.a
Church Reform Party
Earl of Airlie
Robert Anstruther
Lords
Commons
Scotland
Tree Church
Mr. Gladstone
Argyll
Gladstone
Episcopal Church
Macleod
Dingwall
Ross-shire
Strath
Committee of the
United Presbyterian Synod
United Presbyterian
Pall Mall Gazette
Times
General Assembly
Lord Dalhousie
House of Lords
Liverpool
Wm. Gaskell
S. F. Williams
Newchurch
Williams
Binns
Steinthal
Rome
Church of England
Liberation Society
Latimer
Ridley