Temperance Clash Over Church Roles and Local Veto Plans
L. Tony Evans reports a heated Penarth Baptist Conference debate on Local Veto and temperance reform. A resolution urged churches to appoint only abstainers to church and Sunday School offices, challenging brewery ties and Methodist leadership attitudes amid broader calls for Imperial Sunday Closing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penarth
Glamorgan and
Carmarthen English Baptist Association
L. Ton Evans
Te “Morgan
Evans
Conference
Church of Christ
Samson of Old
Delilah
God
Temperance Campaigns Reported Across England and Wales
Reports detail speakers and campaign starts from September including Hamar Greenwood in Dover and R Coad in Hitchin. Battles over abstinence mark events in Bermondsey Lincoln Paddington and Islington with bands, gatherings at Stockton Denbigh and Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamar Greenwood
Dover
Temperance Mission in Leicester Secures 123 Pledges
Rev. D. Dewar of Leicester led a Temperance Mission at St Luke's parish from September 3 to 11 with assistance from Mr. Geo. Garlick and other friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Dewar
Leicester
St.Luke’s Parish
Geo. Garlick
Sir Wilfrid Lawson Birthday Note in 76th Year
Sir Wilfrid Lawson MP was briefly indisposed during recent heat but has recovered. He celebrated his 76th birthday on 4 September and is wished long life to continue his work for the cause he loves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfrid Lawson
Canterbury MP jokes about sending bishops on temperance mission
Mr E H Pickersgill M P spoke at Canterbury joking that if possible he would send the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Dean on a missionary journey to convert the Bench of Bishops to the Temperance Movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. H. Pickersgill
M.P
Canterbury
Temperance Meetings Open in Staines and Manchester
At Staines a September 3 opening saw sixteen pledges at the first Temperance meeting addressed by Mr Ward and Mr E Aslet. In Manchester the Women’s Christian Temperance Association and Police Court Mission held their opening meeting with Mrs Brayshaw and Mr Tennyson Smith speaking, urging work for an ideal church free from liquor ties.
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The
North Wales Temperance Association and Women’s Temperance: Union
Denbigh
C.f.aked
Staines
Ward
E. Aslet
Women’s Christian Temperance Association
Police Court Mission
Manchester
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United Kingdom Alliance
U.K.A
Grimsby
David
Johnson
Barry
Baptist Association
Glam
Cadoxton
Swansea
Wales
House of God
Tony Evans
R. Coad
Hitchin
Robert Skinner
Bermondsey
George Blaiklock
B.L
Lincoln
Bisley
George Garlick
Chelsea
Paddington
Bayswater
J. W. Fisk
Walthamstow
Durham and Northumberland
Band of Hope Union
Stockton
Robert
Rae
Margate
Tom Horrocks
Islington
Crawley
Eastleigh
C. Os
Whitby
Whitby Temperance Society
District Band of Hope Union
1.C.G.T
Liverpool
Malin
England
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