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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Oct 30, 1872
Page
3
A series of public meetings across Keighley Idle Farsley and surrounding towns discussed the Church of England Establishment and its relation to Parliament. Speakers argued for disestablishment, critiqued Church property claims, and backed petitions to the House of Commons while opposing sectarian bitterness and defending religious equality.
The State Churchmen in Macclesfield disrupted a Liberation lecture by Rev. Charles Williams amid protests. Chairman and local figures condemned the disturbance while defending orderly discussion. Separate lecture by Mr Gordon of Darlington drew mixed Liberal reactions and Canon Roberts defended disestablishment views.
The Geneva Council of State proposes measures after Catholic curés refuse to recognize the Bishop of Hebron’s episcopal authority. It calls for parishes appointing curés, no dignitaries in curé roles, a clarified oath, and new parish nominations while debates on lay aims in church law continue. The Bishop of Lausanne resigns Geneva episcopal functions, leaving no authority to appoint curés as Mermillod is not recognized.
The Rev. Benjamin Robson curate of Chacombe has had his licence revoked after being bound over to keep the peace for assaulting an agricultural labourer a few Sundays ago. The Rev Mitchinson of King's School Canterbury declines the Archbishopric of Mauritius. The Canterbury Archbishop receives a Sydney telegram that the Australian Synod sits at Sydney with ten bishops and fifty clerical and lay representatives. A Roman Catholic priest from Port of Spain, Harrowe, remains unable to dispel doubts regarding secession from Rome.
The report details clerical resignations over papal infallibility and church doctrine, vows to join Rome by E T Smith and others, and disputes within parishes. It notes Sunday museum protests, Dublin archbishop litigation over life interests, and Vatican replies to Cullen’s Galway clergy appeal.
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