Anti state church lectures urge repeal of church and state ties
Reports from Hackney Red Lion Square and Somerset Street chapel on anti state church meetings led by Edward Miall W Forster and David Wassell. Attendees enrolled as members of the Anti state church Association as resolutions praised the speakers and urged civic rights through disestablishment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Miall
Mare Street
Hackney
Cox
Hare
British Anti-state Church Association
Luntley
Eagle Street Chapel
Red Lion Square
W. Forster
Highgate
Anti-state Church Association
Somerset Street Chapel
David Wassell
J. Edridge
York Street Chapel
Bath Journal
Eclectic Review aims to cut price while preserving content
A Northampton meeting discusses Dr Price's Eclectic Review lowering the price from 2s 6d to 1s 6d per month without reducing content or quality. Staff expanded to eighty writers, with debate over neutrality between Baptist and Pedobaptist positions. Public sale of seized church-rate goods in Leicester highlighted state church tensions. A Cambridge case reports a dissenter William Bidwell facing a criminal indictment for refusing church-rate payment, prompting calls to aid his defense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northampton
College Street Vestry
Price
Grundy
Christ’s Church
Eclectic
Robert Hall
John Foster
Olinthus Gregory
St Martin's
Leicester
Leicester Mercury
House of Commons
Bright
Cambridge
William Bidwell
St Botolph
Bidwell
Morning Chronicle
Opposition to Maynooth grant sparks evangelical unity
A broad coalition of evangelical Christians from multiple denominations plans a public meeting at Exeter Hall to oppose increasing the Maynooth grant. The London committee, including dissenting deputies, weighs further steps and possible press access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Free Church In Scotland
London
Exeter Hall
Atheneum
Derby
College of
Maynooth
Clowes
Messrs Abney
Pike
Gawthorn
Lillingstone
Vivers
Shirley
Latham
Popery
R. Peel
Gawthorne
Stonyhurst
Oscott
Ireland
St George's Channel
Meeting on religious grants sparks tax and sectarian debates
Derby Reporter covers a meeting where W Parkinson argued against public funding for religion, warning that fifty million in taxes should not support colleges for faiths. J G Pize proposed petitions and pledges by electors to oppose grants, while clergy in Suffolk debated signing a petition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Derby
W. Parkinson
RE. H. Abney
Charirmann
Parkinson
Crain
Parkkinson
J. G. Pixe
Suffolk Chronicle
Suffolk
Berners
Controversy Over Communion Table Practices In Leigh Parish
In Leigh near Bolton the vicar Mr Irvine faced opposition after attempting to change the long standing practice of leaving bread and wine on the table during the service. Churchwardens and leaders prepared a requisition to suspend him, and debates spread to broader church discipline and bishop visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leigh
Bolton
Chester
Irvine
Bryan King
St George’s-in-the-East
London
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