Congregational Efforts Highlight Harecourt Chapel Reports
The Harecourt Congregational Church annual report shows seven year revenue near 38,329 pounds and 8,046 pounds in 1870 with gains from Home Mission funding. A new Stamford Hill church is planned and ministers praise the Scriptural fundraising shift over collector methods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zion
W. Burton
J. Hawkes
T. G. Rooke
B.A
E. Edwards
Free Church
Calne
Rookline
A. Rowland
J.L.B
Messrs
Flatman and Tucker
Harecourt
Canonpury
Raleigh
Sinclair
Stamford Hill
Hare-court
London
McAuslane
Robert Jones
City of London
Church of England
Fletcher
McAns
McAnslane
A. Hannay
Congregational Union
George Williams
Hitchcock and Co
J. H. Wilson
W. Grigsby
J. de Kewer Williams
Williams
Finsbury Chapel
T. Binney
Halley
Rhenine Clarkson
Dr. Halley
Nonconformist ties expand across England and Wales
A reader reports Central Nonconformist Committee efforts to establish vigorous local committees in over twenty five constituencies. The letter also appeals for support for Sarah Moffat, niece of Robert Moffat, seeking a pension of 20 shillings yearly from the Royal Hospital for Incurables Putney Heath due to long disability and prior parliamentary runs.
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Manchester and
Salford
England
Wales
Manchester
Royal Hospital For Incurables
Putneyheath
Sarah Moffat
Robert Moffat
Dr. Livingstone
Sectarian Harshness in a National School at Wanstead
A Wanstead National School committee plans a 13000 pound expansion aided by a 240 pound grant to avoid party politics and appeals to Nonconformists. A junior teacher, a Primitive Methodist, faced pressure to attend church or resign after claims of dissent at the school.
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Srn
National School
Wanstead
Primitive Methodist
George-lane
Congregational Church
Dismissal Over Chapel Attendance Sparks Education Reform Debate
James Bishop of Wanstead recounts a teacher’s dismissal after she refused to abandon chapel attendance. He condemns the act as cruel and unjust, notes the broader push for unsectarian schooling, and suggests a school board may better safeguard the institution. Wanstead, March 22, 1871.
Debates on Paris Restoration and China Policy
In Parliament discussions tracked by Parliament Intelligence and Our Policy in China, Lord Granville condemned the Paris massacre but noted Catholic missions inflamed Chinese resentments. Carnarvon urged broader contact with China and fewer high handed measures, arguing diplomacy must be balanced with credible force and local authorities held to treaty breaches.
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China
House of Lords
Ford Carnarvon
Tientsin
Lord Russell
Lord Granville
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Johnson Barker
J. M. H. Valentine
H. O. Budden
J. B. Figgis
Brighton
W. F. Adeney
Students’ Debating Society
C. E. B. Reed
Lt. Bevan
Ll.b
Nenner
A. F. Muir
M.A
G. 8. Ordish
A. W. Mummery
E. Flower
Charles Reed, Esq
M.P
Samuel Newth
THE
Central Nonconformist Committee
L. BH. Shaw
Marina
St. Leonard’s-on-Sea
Sussex
James Bishop
Parliamentary Intelligence
Duke of Richmond
Earl Granvitze
Lord Lyons
Paris
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