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Contempt for legal formalities and church reform debate
The text critiques Lord Penzance's emphasis on procedure over justice and laments the grotesque taste of law in its borrowed garment. It reports Leeds Nonconformist lectures by J. Baldwin Brown and Marmaduke Miller on Establishment and church reform, and covers burials scandals, baptism delays, and the Bishop of St Albans urging gradual burial-law changes through parishes and un-consecrated grounds, urging a Christian congress to end the strife.
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Lord Penzance
Stereps Nonconformist Union
Leeds Nonconformist Union
Methodist New Connexion
Woodhouse Lane
J. Baldwin Brown
J. W. Willans
Church of Rome
Leeds
Headingley Hill Congregational Chapel
Marmaduke Miller
Beckworth
Ald. Boothroyd
Archibald Campbell
Scandau
England
Joseph Richard Butterley
Church of England
Norton
Butterley
Greensmith
H. H. Pearson
Osborn Morgan
Congress of Christians