Notes from Magazines and Observations on Sermons
In a digest of magazine notes the writer praises Canon Farrar for his sermons in Westminster Abbey and his balanced eloquence. He admires the moral art in Farrar’s The Confessional and commends the restrained but powerful preaching that blends Greek finish with Hebrew devotion. The piece references Scribner and Sunday at Home, noting Eadie’s quiet influence and a closing Argosy saying on imagining good over evil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paddington
Brompton
Westbourne-grove
Westminster Abbey
Eadie
Canon Westcott
Dr. Scrivener
Brief Notices. Light and Shade by Cuarnot Tre G O'Brien
Review notes the novel Light and Shade by Cuarnot Tre G O'Brien in two volumes from C Kegan Paul. It sketches Lord Donallan, an absentee English landlord who falls for an Irish girl, travels to learn the people, faces a Fenian plot, and shows sympathy for the National party while fairly portraying Fenians.
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Cuarnot Tre G. O’brien
C. Kegan Paul and Co
Lord Donallan
Lord Dunallan
National” Party
Ireland
France
Belgium
Hungary
Austria
Adonis
The Royal Guide to London Charities 1878-79 review
A critical look at Herbert Fry's directory of London charities. The work lists about three thousand institutions with object, receipts and chief officials, plus 150 pages of hospital and relief society ads. The reviewer notes this guide could aid sympathetic readers, criticizes Fry for biased remarks about the Charity Organisation Society, and calls for better classification.
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Royal Guide To
London
Herbert Fry
Hardwicke and Bogue
Fry
Society
Barnardo
Defence of Nonconformity at Portland Street Chapel remarks
Mr. Elisha Robinson presided at the Portland Street Chapel anniversary in Bristol and rebuked Canon Girdlestone for a cathedral speech decrying Voluntaryism. He argued endowments undermine individual religious responsibility and praised Nonconformity as the country’s religious strength. The debate touched on Church and State and the role of the State Church amid voluntary provision.
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Robinson
Portland-street Chapel
Bristol
Canon Girdlestone
Liberation Society
Union of
Church and State
Church of England
Mr. Robinson
Balmoral
Newman Hall
Spurgeon
The
Downs
Disestablishment Meeting Lodges in Manchester
A Liberal conference at the Manchester Atheneum discussed disendowment of the Church of England. Mr Carvell Williams explained the Liberation Society plan at length. A resolution supported the scheme as a fair basis for legislation though not binding on every detail. Dr Pankhurst urged that the time had come for action.
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Manchester
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