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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 15, 1873
Page
2
The congress featured heated discussions on disestablishment and church reform. Speakers urged laity involvement, questioned episcopal expansion, and praised theological study while warning against apathy and division within the Church of England.
Mr Tuck reports on Wiltshire 1851 religious accommodation and current progress for the Wilts and East Somerset Congregational Union. In 1851 Church of England provision averaged 45 percent with nonconformists at 31 percent. 331 Anglican and 372 nonconformist places of worship existed. Since 1851 some towns added sittings and new chapels at Broadchalk Swindon Malmesbury Chapmanslade Heytesbury Calne Mere Batheaston Crockerton and Birdbush, while many villages lack dissenting chapels amid landlord resistance. The union urges evangelism village pastors lay agency and rural visitation to improve spiritual provision.
The Old Catholic Bishop Reinkens is sworn in at Berlin in a ceremony in the Ministry of Public Worship. Ministers and witnesses from both sides attend as an altar lights burn. The oath affirms loyalty to Cesar while noting the state’s protection of the Old Catholics amid Romanist tensions.
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