New Burials Act sparks renewed anti church-rate struggle
The piece criticizes the New Burials Act as a hidden tactic by clerical supporters to settle the long quarrel without public debate. It warns that proponents misrepresented its scope, predicting a fresh wave of anti church-rate agitation across parishes and urging lawful, measured scrutiny of Local Government Board actions.
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Marten
House of Commons
House of Lords
Lord Stanhope
Lord Granville
Lord Cranbrook
York
Society
Osborne Morgan
National Church
Church Defence Institution
Morgan
England
Whitehall
Clergy and Cemetery Act Debates Across Parishes
A rural sanitary authority discusses enforcing a new burial act on sanitary grounds. Milton (Kent) guardians order health officials to inspect cemeteries. A Royton consecration sermon urges end to churchyard sectarian lines, praising religious liberty and shared burial spaces.
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Darlington
the Rock
Royton
Manchester
Church of England
England
Hereford Nonconformists urged to reject new cemetery offer
The Hereford Town Council offers nonconformists a plot of land with a chapel in return for using a new cemetery. The plan would create a separate burial ground for dissenters, while preserving the existing consecrated site for Episcopalians, and may delay passage of Mr Morgan’s burial bill.
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Hereford
Episcopal Clergy
Guardian remarks on church cause and political duty
The Guardian defends writers and preachers as faithful guides to church and country. It argues religious duties must not be sacrificed to political expediency and cites Wordsworth on trust and responsibility.
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Wordsworth
The
Guardian