Forster and Burnet Press Anti State Church Debate
The article recounts Mr Forster defending the Anti state church Association against opposition from dissenters and critics who label the move premature. Mr Burnet counters calls to avoid politics, arguing church property is public and church rates are political actions, with Maynooth and Ireland raised before deputies conclude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forster
Mr Forster
Jerusalem
Foérth
Luther
Christ
Burner
Mr Burnet
Burnet
The New Reformation in Germany Priests
Reports from Westphalia and Bohemia describe papal rebuke to priests over home life and calls for missionary work. Prussian officials deny exile orders for Ronge and Czerski while debates over Augsburg confession surface. Freemasons and church reform inside Germany expand into lodges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elberfeld Gazette
Westphalia
Holy Father
Swabian Mercury
Bohemia
Czerski
Saenger
Muller
Voss Gazette
Abbé Ronge
M. Czerski
General Council
Stutgard
Germany
Intra Ecclesiastical Toleration Debates Across Religions
The discussion covers toleration for Christian converts by rulers in India and China, Ireland’s church expenditure and church-building demand, and government responses to religious reform. It notes various motions to separate toleration into distinct acts, urges impartial review of ecclesiastical accounts, and reports on church assemblies and excommunications in German regions.
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Peking
Constantinople
Ireland
India
Calcutta Christian Herald
Leisto
Stolzenfels
Prussia
Prince Metternich
Continental Echo
Eiectorat
Hessr
Fulda
Ober Postamts - Zeitung
Universal German Gazette
Evening Meeting Suppressed as Friends of Light Debate Open Declaration
In the evening of August 27 several hundred gathered before police barred entry as Friends of Light meetings were forbidden. Attendees adjourned to a garden and discussed speeches for the church and its athletic movement. a seven person committee was formed to draft an open declaration to the King. The session ended orderly at eight. Conversion reports at Oscott College and Hong Kong note delays before Catholic reception and limited church building progress under the state church in that island.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Frankfort
Frederick of
Prussia
Austria
Globe
America
Breslau
Friends of Light
Warp
Organg
Oscott College
Ward
Hong Kong
Wakefield church rate contest ends in narrow margin
A long Wakefield church rate dispute concludes with a 16 vote majority for the rate over the anti rate group after two weeks of intense campaigning. Accusations of illegal votes and clerical influence mar the vote, prompting legal challenges and the formation of an Anti-church-rate association amid widespread discontent.
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Rogde
Leeds Times
Wakefield
Durham
Darlington
Hoop
Thomas Eastwood
Brindle Lodge
Lancashire
Preston
Fast Wood
Withal
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