State Church failure blamed as voluntaryism aids poor
The argument argues that voluntaryism in Christian work surpasses state church efforts, noting Roman Catholics fund costly edifices and that dissenters and Protestants should locally intensify aid. It claims the lower Liverpool districts show Catholic presence and criticizes establishment complacency, urging training of Christians to give.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Liverpool
England
Italy
Sir Wilfrid Lawson on The Bulwark of Protestantism
At Carlisle a Liberal meeting on the Establishment question Mr Robert Ferguson argued for keeping the Church of England state established. Sir Wilfrid Lawson praised Ferguson’s boldness and warned that ending state church support could hinder religious truth while noting Catholics remain good citizens and questioning using state funds for conversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Robert Ferguson
Ireland
England
Ile
Church of England
Wilfrid Lawson
Ferguson
Scotland
Mr. Howard
Debate on Church and State and Popery
A speaker argues against Church of England state establishment, citing a dean’s claim of 500 clergy joining Rome and noting minimal doctrinal differences with Dissenters. He urges stopping public funding of one sect and warns that union of church and state harms equality and truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Howard
Corby
Church of England
Rome
Ferguson
Ireland
England
Romish Teaching in the Church of England Response Published
The archbishops of Canterbury and York publish a reply to a May 1873 memorial with 60 200 signatures opposing Romish teaching. They defend denying confessional practice, urge lay action, caution judicial overreach, and urge reform through persuasion within the Protestant Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canterbury
York
Church of England
Lambeth Palace
Church Association
Lambeth
London
Province of Canterbury
Church of
Rome
Episcopal
Unitarian Petition Presses Disestablishment in Lancashire
At a Liverpool meeting of Presbyterian and Unitarian ministers, Rev W Gaskell presiding, a petition argues state support for one faith is unjust and disestablishment is the only remedy. Williams opposes comprehension as injustice, warning it would legalise immorality or require a watered down creed for all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian and Unitarian
Lancashire
Cheshire
Liverpool
W. Gaskell
Williams
Church of England
Booth
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Sir Wilfrid Lawson
A. C Cantuar
W. EsBer
Thomas R. Andrews
Buckingham Street
Strand
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