Friends Voices On Church Establishment and Dissent
The Friends critique state church ties, urging removal of ecclesiastical systems linked to the state. They argue spiritual authority should prevail, acknowledge blessings of the existing church, but condemn legal church establishment and its social divides. John Bright adds a political view, while Friends stress religious duty and mutual charity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pasgal
Fenelon
Xavier
Gorripils
Rome
Jewell
Poker
Beveridge
Ridley
Taylor
Ken
Wilson
Commonwealth
Church of the Old Covenant
Church of Christ
God
Society of Friends
John Bright
Episcopal Pastoral Addresses Church Strife and Doctrinal Threats
An Lambeth Palace dated document signed by the two archbishops and most English bishops warns clergy and laity of church divisions. It cites disobedience to authority, changes in rites, and the spread of doctinal manuals to youth as dangers to the Church of England and its Reformed traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Durham
Salisbury
Lambeth Palace
Clergy and Laity Urged to Obey Lawful Church Authority
A long address calls for readiness to yield to the law of the Church of England and to submit personal interpretations to lawful courts. It warns against novel practices and unauthorized ceremonies while urging unity between clergy and parishioners in faithful worship and loyal conformity to the Book of Common Prayer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church of England
Church of Rome
God
Christ
Baring
Durham
Moberly
Salisbury
Disestablishment and High Church Trends in 19th Century Britain
The piece notes a push for disestablishment of the Scotch Church and a constitutional framework honoring life interests. It reports on a Suffolk vicar offering church hall for Baptist preaching, and a London bishops bill proposal to redistribute income. It also surveys Mackeson’s Guide showing rising High Church practices across many London churches including vestments incense and weekly Communion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Daily News
Wrentham
Suffolk
K. Bland
Beccles
Freeman
Exeter
House of Lords
Lord Lyttelton
London
Mackeson
Disestablishment Topics Dominate Broadside Columns
A long notice lists lectures at Memorial Hall by a late Oxford professor on Monday night with Dr Lush presiding. It reports the Dean of Cork’s appointment to Ossory Leighlin and Ferns, Scotland parish livings value, Dr Manning's Rome summons, and a Chilean Jesuit’s strike at British depravity. It notes the Baxter Statue unveiling delayed to July and a Pope letter condemning liberty of conscience. It ends with Scottish disestablishment strides and a new cooperation constitution.
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ThoroLp
Memorial Hall
University of Oxford
Liberation Society
Lush
M.P
Rogers
Cork
Ossory
Leighlin
Ferns
McLaren
Scotland
Manning
Rome
Father Domaguez
Serena
Chile
England
Baxter
Kidderminster
Dean Stanley
University of
Louvain
Ecclesiastica AL BriLis
Peterborough
Scottanp
Scottish Disestablishment Association
Edinburgh
Review of Supernatural Reusion and Transit Notes
Dr Kennedy reviews Supernatural Reusion as a forthcoming book. Transit of Venus reports from Cape Town Akadaki Wakhodka and Kamen Ribeloff note observed contacts with clouds hindering heliometric data. Baptist ministers visit Rome for evangelistic work linked to James Wall chapel opening. Bendigo’s public confession follows a shanty match report and hymn with a church response.
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Dr. Kennedy
Daldy, Isbister, and Co
Ludgate-hill
Cape Town
Kerguelen
Herr Struve
Akadaki
Japan
Wakhodka
Pacific
Vladivostock
Kamen Ribeloff
Lake Hanka
Rome
W. Stott
London
James Mursell
Newcastle
A. M. Stalker
Southport
J. H. Millard
Huntingdon
J. Lance
Newport
Bendigo
England
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