An Appeal to Our Party to Check a War Career
A letter to the Nonconformist editor urges immediate action against the government’s war policy in South Africa. It calls for Christian ministers and citizens to speak out, denounce imperial violence, and oppose large armaments and volunteers while urging retrenchment to aid the poor.
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England
South Africa
Cetewayo
Michael Hicks-Beach
Michael
Tsandula
Burmah
Daily News
Wilfrid Lawson
Conservative
E. Jenkins
Disciples of Beaconsfield
Letter from F Sonley Johnstone on religious duty and peace
A reader from Merry Hill near Wolverhampton argues that Christians fail to practice love your enemies and must act to uphold the Prince of Peace. He warns that without effort the practice will fall to opponents and urges fellow believers to discharge their duties.
The Zulu War Protest by An Englishman in 1879
A Bradford letter from March 16 1879 argues against the Zulu war and calls for church separation from state. The writer condemns vengeance, urges defensive action, and questions imperial policy while urging voters to oust leaders at the next election.
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National Church of
England
Hastings
Bradford
Latest Church Scandal Silences Evangelical Clergyman
A Longstanding Evangelical pastor in Swindon faces removal from the pulpit amid church politics. The editor notes a bishop’s influence silencing him, possibly tied to his critical writings on bishops and Muscular Christianity in Prussia and the Poor.
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M.P
Prussia
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F. Sonley Johnstone
Merry Hill
Near
Wolverhampton
Swindon
Cae