Temperance and Missionary Efforts Highlight Leeds Gathering
The Leeds Baptist meeting urged abstinence and prayer to stamp out drink and boost foreign missions. Delegates heard reports on 1848 to 1878 progress, pledged funds for twenty new missionaries, and extra efforts to support India and other fields amid speeches by M.P. John Barran and Sir Henry Havelock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Liverpool
Christ
J. H. Cooke
Richmond
W. J. Mayers
Bristol
J. P. Bacon
London
J. P. Andrews
Leeds
Bands of Hope
Blenheim Chapel
R. Glover
Alderman Whitehead
Bradford
A. H. Baynes
Canada
Brethren In
Society
J. J. Perkins Bacon
Clement Bailhache
H. M. Bompass
Q.C
John Barran
M.P
England
E. 8. Robinson
J. P. Chown
E. B. Underhill
Charles B. Lewis
James
Llangynidr
Leeds Town Hall
Henry M. Havelock
Baptist Missionary Society
Sanders
G. Kerry
Barresaul
Bengal
L. Johnson
Central Africa
Union
East Parade
Congregational Union
R. H. Marten
Mr. Spurgeon
American Jottings on Religion and Public Life in 1880s Boston
The column surveys post summer revival in Boston churches and ongoing ministerial meetings. It notes honorary degrees proliferating in America, lectures by Joseph Cook and Henry Ward Beecher, and Spurgeon’s finances. It cites declines in Southern wealth, Baptist cooperation in Virginia, and a planned African mission by the American Board, plus Dean Stanley and President Hayes touring the U.S. with vivid regional details.
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Boston
Pilgrim Hall
Evangelical Alliance
L. B. Bates
Reven Thomas
Brooklyn
Wycliffe Chapel
London
Thomas
States
Scotland
Llewelyn D. Bevan
New York
America
New York Independent
Harvard
Yale
Princeton
Brown University
Williams
Dartmouth
Amherst
Middlebury
Dickinson
Wabash
Allegheny
Western Reserve
Joseph Cook
Baltimore
Tremont Temple
Cook
Henry Ward Beecher
Atlantic
Christian At Work
Spurgeon
South
Peabody Fund
Richmond Religious Herald
Virginia
Africa
American Board of Foreign Missions
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Robert Arthington
Leeds
England
Major Malan
Arthington
Church
Baptist Missionary Societies
American Board
Dean Stanley
Salem
Mass
Endicott
George Bancroft
Newport
Winthrop
P. Brooks
Storrs
Hayes
Dacota
Dalrymple
Fargo
Northern Pacific