Lectures Draw Crowds Despite Snow Across Derbyshire
Rev W Griffiths of Derby presided as Mr Gordon spoke to a lively audience at Matlock and Beighton. Opposition was noisy but checked, with amendments carried and thanks given as clergymen clashed and locals urged another visit.
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W. Griffiths
Derby
Gordon
MatLocx
Matlock
Bloom
Beighton
Sheffield
United Methodist Free Church
Knott
Messrs
Rawson and Muscroft
Mixed public meetings on religion and disestablishment
A series of meetings across towns including Leicester and Satford featured speakers such as Rev. J. Balmer and J. Fisher. Interruptions, police involvement, and crowd disorder marked several talks on church establishment, religious equality, and liberal topics with widespread attendance and strong local reactions.
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Leicester R
Leicester
J. A. Picton
John Fisher
A. Mackennal
Alderman Stevenson
Mackennal
Alderman Viccars
Paget
J. S. Balmer
Free Library
Foden
Balmer
Ardwick
J. K. Applebee
Bolton
W. Bond
J. Fisher
W. H. Hindmarsh
English Church Union
P. Flinn
Clerical Lectures and Public Meetings Across Cities
This week Rev. Charles Williams lectures in York and Bradford and will address a Nottingham public meeting with Hon. Lyulph Stanley. The Church Property debate between Rev. T. Berger and Mr. Gordon in Manchester began last Monday and continues tonight and tomorrow. Mr. Fisher lectures in Basingstoke and next week at Frome Stoke-sub-Hamden and other West of England towns. Friday’s Stockwell Education Institute meeting features Carvell Williams, Henry Spicer jun., Rev. A Mursell and Rev. J B Heard. Heard plans lectures at Pontefract Cleckheaton and York. Preparations for Mr. Gordon’s London tour underway.
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Comina Mretinas
Charles Williams
York
Bradford
Nottingham
Lyulph Stanley
T. Berger
Gordon
Free Trade Hall
Manchester
Fisher
Basingstoke
Frome
Stoke-sub-Hamden
England
Education Institute
Stockwell
Carvell Williams
Henry Spicer
A. Mursell
J. B. Heard
Heard
Pontefract
Cleckheaton
London
Novel Proceedings Amid Halifax Vicar's Rate Row
A large Halifax vestry meeting in the parish church, chaired by Alfred Ramsden, drew a crowded audience as a pre-signed resolution to lay the vicar's rate was discovered during the session. The scene showed strong public opposition to the rate amidst the vestry controversy.
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Halifax
Alfred Ramsden
Rowdy vestry shows struggle over church accounts and vicar’s rate
A Halifax vestry clashed over unsigned church accounts and a disputed salary for a collector. The chairman read the disallowed accounts as cheers and hoots rang out. A plan to adjourn for a vicar’s rate was proposed, with live opposition and a guarded retreat as minutes were recorded.
Dr Mellor Delivers Congregational Lecture on Sacerdotalism
The Rev Dr Mellor of Halifax spoke at Memorial Hall Farringdon Street on Sacerdotalism as part of a Congregational Lecture series. Henry Wright presided and introduced the lecturer for a well attended event held Tuesday evening March 7. The paper notes space constraints limited the report and provides a summary from the English Independent.
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Mellor
Halifax
Memorial Hall
Farringdon Street
Henry Wright
English Independent
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Rocudale
James Ashworth
G. Howell
John Kingsley
Westerton
East Retford
Lummis
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Epworth
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J. H. Lummis
Boston
Temperance Hall
J. Colvin
Mr. Loxton
Warman
D. Loxton
Marshchapel
Louth
Free Methodist
B. B. Kirkby
Salifleet
Loutu
Liberation Society
Lincolnshire
WatsaLu
W. Dorling
Dorling
W. Wright, Esq
J.P
T. Fisk
G. Hunsworth
E. Parry
G. Hastings
B. W. Jackson
Charles Barstow
Thomas Pearson
Draper
Jackson
E. J. Smith
Jonas Swift
J. Scarorough
Mr. F. Highley
Scarborough
A. Highley
F. Highley
Mr. Scarborough
James Cockin
Cockin
Squareroad
Thomas Day
Woolhope
Charles Ely
Cochin
T. Hutchins
C. Barstow
DR. Mellor
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