Reformed Episcopal Church Leaders Urge Separate Fellowship
An Ottawa address by Bishop Gregg and colleagues promotes secession from the Established Church. It argues for a distinct Episcopal body, undenominational in aims, with a liturgical, evangelical creed and Canterbury succession, opposing Romanism and Ritualism while inviting laity to choose between Nonconformist bodies or the new movement.
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Reformed Episcopal Church
Ottawa
Canada
Gregg
Southend
United States
England
Church of England
See of
Canterbury
Church of Ireland
United Kingdom
Thames
British Columbia
Church of England tensions spark freedom debate
Reformist reviews argue fault lies with both sides of the Establishment. Evangeles and High-Church factions push for liberty, signaling a rising urge for reform within the Church of England.
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Church of England
Osborne Morgan on Nonconformity and Church Union
Mr. Osborne Morgan lays the foundation stone of a Primitive Methodist Chapel at Frood Wrexham and speaks on unity among denominations. He argues the inner spirit unites churches, cites John Wesley, and critiques the Church of England as a state church hindering spiritual freedom.
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Osborne Morgan
Frood
Wrexham
Primitive Methodists
John Wesley
Church of England
Parliament
Mr. Forster
Wales
Principality
Morgan
Church Missionary Society and Bishop of Ceylon clash
In August 1877, Rev W Clark, under the Church Missionary Society, plans to resume his ministerial functions despite not being legally deprived of his licence. The bishop’s reply frames the crisis as needing courage of convictions, with implications for a possible Queen in Council appeal or defeat in the contest, signaling a delayed resolution.
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Clark
England
Copleston
Ceylon
Lord Carnarvon
Ceylon Observer
W. Clark
Bishop Copleston
Disestablishment Movement Lectures Across England
Mr J H Gordon spoke in Rodney Ion Assembly Rooms on Church and State, amid rain and applause. Hastings also addressed crowds in Reoworth and Paradise near Coventry, praising religious equality. A Town Hall talk argued disestablishment as inevitable to save the Church, while other meetings in Syston and nearby venues covered the movement’s aims and activities.
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Tron Brigg
J. H. Gordon
Hastings
Reoworth
Paradise
Coventry
S. Peake
Midland Counties
G. L. Withers
J. Orton
Church of England
Gordon
T. Lester
Attleborough
Syston
Leicester
Hipwood
Baptist Chapel
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