Gladstone and the Church Establishment in the UK
The piece argues that true reform must let religious bodies have fair play while the state upholds the Church Establishment. It warns that liberal approaches risk turning the church into a political instrument amid internal dissension, challenging the allegiance of English Anglicans who value both Church and Establishment.
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England
Mr. Gladstone
Mr. MacColl
Ecclesiastical notes on church education and royal marriages
The Guardian reports fervent church view on Education Bills, urging exclusive church schooling. It notes Cambridge meetings led by the Bishop of Ely, warnings about dissent influencing School Boards, and editorials on church rates, burials, and royal marriages including Lent timing concerns and Bowstead’s Welsh statistics.
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Guardian
Cambridge
Ely
Harold Browne
John Bull
Cchurchman
Church of England
Stocking Pelham
Hartley
Louise
Marquis of
Lorn
Prince of Wales
Scotland
Prince Albert
Bowstead
Quarterly Review
Bowntead
Wales
Ritualists and church control in Dowlais schools debate
In June 1870 Dowlais eight public schools housed 2,993 children with only 226 or about seven percent affiliated to the Establishment. Ecclesiastical stats show church school share declined from 10.4 percent in 1857 to 7.5 percent. Ritualists plan an Anglican Oratory in London. The Daily Telegraph notes Mr. Shipley’s aims to import Mass ritual into Anglican services, amid disestablishment talk and possible church state divorce debates.
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Dowlais
Orby Shipley
London
Book of Common Prayer
Anglican Communion Office
Daily Telegraph
Shipley
Assheton
M.P
Liberation Party
Mr. Assheton
The Liberation Society Conferences Across Towns In England
Leicester committees plan a series of conferences on church and state with speakers Rev. Coe Mackennal Franks and Williams aimed at youths. Bradford Manchester Hanley and Welsh towns report lively public meetings, with agents J Jones and Evans and a humorous note on a fogbound trek to Dylifau.
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Leicester
C. C. Coe
A. Mackennal
Ireland
E. Franks
Bradford
Miall
M.P
Carvell Williams
St. George’s Hall
Manchgster
Hantuy
Hanley
Drersy
Hald
Tre Norra
J. H. Gordon
Liberator
Mr. Jones
Dylifau