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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Mar 26, 1879
Page
4
The excerpt discusses several poems including an orphaned mother death sonnet and notes that L Envoi is the best in that class. It also reviews the Country Pocket Book and Diary for 1879 praising its compact design and comprehensive tables for shooting fishing athletics cricket and country sports and matters for the sportsman and country gentleman.
The Scotch Church bill faces delay in Commons with opposition from the United Presbyterian Synod. They condemn it as a state church measure risking civil courts, and urge immediate disestablishment to end public endowments and sectarian control. They warn any compromise perpetuates injustice against Free Churches and dissenters.
The Synod endorses disestablishment and disendowment on impartial principles as the sole remedy. A committee resolves to oppose any bill advancing state disestablishment and to pursue measures preventing its passage, upholding truth and justice in the settlement.
The Bristol branch of the Disestablishment Movement met at King Street Schoolroom for tea. J F Norris presided as Carvell Williams spoke on burial bills and church disestablishment, praising the Liberation Society’s work and urging support for reform.
Mr Fisher toured Hampshire delivering Liberation talks in Winchester Portsea and Andover. In Winchester the Sessions Hall audience heard a Church and noncon form debate led by J Jones and G Cullen, with J Williams Ashman opposing from a Churchman view. In Portsea W Ward presided as clergy and lay speakers debated disestablishment and endowment amid security and tickets. Andover reports show Fisher speaking on Disestablishment in Ireland with Rev. Hasler and others on the platform.
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