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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 05, 1873
Page
3
The auctioneer finally secured 9,000 as a bid after protracted appeals and eloquence. The owners then set a reserve price and halted the sale. Most congregants departed believing the sale to be a harmful market practice.
A meeting at Queen Street Hall Edinburgh agreed to erect a colossal Knox statue on a granite pedestal with bas relief at not less than 5000. 2000 subscribed. Other notes cover Rev Dr Wallace case, Archibishop Manning on Mermillod, Newcastle Friends petition, Anti Ritualist Society, Exeter disturbance rebuke, Gladstone gift to Curates Augmentation Fund, and Irish vs English university religious equality.
The letter notes seven highly paid professors earning about 11,000 a year while others in Greek Latin Moral Philosophy Logics Astronomy share only 3 300 a year and a top salary of 600. The writer questions why England treats Nonconformists worse than Irish Protestants and why religious equality exists there but not here.
The Annual Meeting at Pentonville road Chapel reports 103 chapels built or enlarged in 24 years, seating 91,700 with a cost of 430,450 pounds. receipts 5,305 pounds 3s 2d and expenditures 4,955 pounds 15s 6d. It notes six new chapels opened and five under construction, urges greater efforts and reports on religious accommodation statistics in London boundaries.
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