Gleaming Saint or Failing Statesman in English Debate
A heated critique lauds Gladstone as a moral guide while labeling Disraeli a failure. The piece laments imperial excess, church reform, landlord upheaval, and media influence, urging steadfast faith and righteous leadership against unrighteous prosperity and perilous alliances.
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England
Disraeli
Gladstone
Great Heart of
Robert Moffat
Saint Paul
Mr. Gladstone
Judson
Burmah
Stanley
Livingstone
Daily Telegraphs
New York Heralds
The Turkish Atrocities Poems Stir English Heart
A letter accompanies verses meant to express England’s swelling outrage at Turkish cruelties. The lines seek to channel the great national sentiment and remorse felt over the suffering in the region.
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England
Sermonist Plea for Music at Meetings by Clergyman
A clergyman urges peaceable action and recommends verses set to music for meetings and schoolchildren. He warns against being manipulated by cold blooded politicians and signs his letter Yours obediently.
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P.S
England and Bulgaria Poem and Public Letter
The poem laments Bulgarian Turkish atrocities with a plea for England to intervene. A letter to the editor urges ministers to mobilize congregations to memorialize Lord Derby and raise funds for Lady Strangford's Bulgarian mission to ease winter destitution.
Village Churches and Small Town Congregations Face Funding Dilemmas
A correspondent argues county unions should withdraw not all aid but apply case by case to help small village and town churches. He cites pastors’ stagnation in 4000-population towns and urges continued support with selective ministry, condemning blanket withdrawal while urging Congregationalist sympathy and endurance.
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County Union
Congregationalism
Moses
Rod
Isms
Occasional Preaching Letters to the Editor
A Nonconformist reader criticizes an anonymous correspondent signing as An Occasional Preacher. He laments missing name and address and contrasts preaching with prattling, arguing that occasional preaching and prattling diverge widely in nature and impact.
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Christ
Herod
Bulgaria
Servia
Lord Derby
Bradford
West Yorkshire
O. P
Vale of Ell
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