Wesleyans Reject Offered Compromise Over Burial Service
The Methodist Recorder notes Wesleyans will not accept the compromise on burial rites in churchyards. Bishops push a middle course allowing non church service burial, sparking debate on equality between clergy and dissenters. Controversy spreads to Harrow School unsectarian status and broader church-state funding debates.
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Methodist Recorder
Osborne Morgan
Cerberus
Winchester
Bishop of
Queen Victoria
King of Kings
English Independent
Sierra Leone
McArthur
House of Commons
Barbadoes
Demerara
Wesleyan Missionary Society
Watchman
Ireland
Trevelyan
Harrow School
Public Schools
Harrow
Samuelson
Gladstone
Winterbotham
Stevenson
Mr. Gladstone
Clergy Refuse to Obey Lawful Authority Over Church Affairs
A beneficed minister proclaims his intent to keep religious duties above civil rule, denouncing the Church state union. He appeals to the Privy Council as a rebuke of tyrannical power, asserts spiritual jurisdiction, and vows disobedience to civil and bishoply authority within St Alban’s church. He rejects canonical law that conflicts with Christ’s law.
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Christ
Privy Council
St. Alban’s Church
Lancs and Cheshire Baptists Open Annual Conference
The Lancashire and Cheshire Baptist Association opened at Claremont Chapel Bolton with a prayer meeting led by Rev D Macgregor Manchester and a business session presided by Mr Lawrence Whittaker Haslingden. The body, including 57 churches, reported 21 000 members compared with 1 700 sixty years ago and recent gains of about 290. A protest on denominational schooling funding was discussed, urging education equity and opposing secular endowment.
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Trish
Purchas
John Purchas
St. James's Chapel
Brighton
Daily News
Ecclesiastical Gazette
Tur University
University of Oxford
South Australia
Downing Street
ScotLand
House of Commons
College of Maynooth
Cardinal Cullen
Dublin
St. Alban
HoLborn
A. H. Mackonochie
St. Alban the
Lancashire and Cheshire Baptist Association
Claremont Chapel
Bolton
D. Macgregor
Manchester
Lawrence Whittaker
Haslingden
Baptists
Lancashire
Yorkshire
J. L. Whitley
Charles Williams
Accrington
W. R. Skerry
Sabden
United Kingdom
W. E. Gladstone
W. E. Forster
F. H. Roberts
Liverpool
M. Maccrecor
Church Party
Green
C. Williams
Forster
Liberal Party
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Maurice
Baldwin Brown
Davies
Kelley
God
Brown
Claylands
Brixton
Lancashire and
Cheshire
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