Puritans and Calvinism Shaping National Character
A speaker argues that elder Nonconformists, notably Calvinists in the Puritan era, deeply influenced England's moral and political life. Calvinism provided resolve. Arminianism offered submission. The text praises the enduring legacy of Nonconformity, its role through Restoration, and calls for continuing gospel work via lay preachers, missions, and reconciled church effort rather than sectarian rivalry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Goodwin
Lord Brooke
Party of Liberty and Progress
God
Lorch
Gideon
Bancroft
James
Whitgift
Sibthorpe
Manwaring
Baby
Army of the Independents
Commonwealth
England
Earth
Kingdom
Heaven
Home Missionary Society Holds Fifty Third Annual Meeting
The Home Missionary Society held its fifty third annual meeting on May 7 in Poultry Chapel with large attendance. Samuel Morley chaired as MPs attended as Rev J Wilson and Rev W Cuthbertson led devotions. The body reported 130 home mission pastors and 100 lay evangelists serving 1,000 villages, 137 stations, and 694 maps with 45,000 weekly listeners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sussex
England
J. C. Ryle
Warwickshire
Home Missionary Society
London
W. R. Spicer
Poultry Chapel
Samuel Morley
J Wilson
W. Cuthbertson
J. H. Wilson
Monmouthshire