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SOUTH-PLACE CHAPEL,
FINSBURY.
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of ilje (Joimiwttw for 1871,
Your Committee commenced last year’s Report by
congratulating the Congregation on their improved posi
tion and prospects, and they have much pleasure in being
able to state that there is still greater reason for congra
tulation now. Several new Member^ have joined us
during the year, and the average attendance of Visitors J
has increased, while the progress of surrounding circum
stances has tended, in various directions, to develope those
principles of Religions Truth and£*Freedom which it has
ever been the aim of this Congregation to cultivate. We
no longer stand alone,, but several other centres have
come into existence from which our principles are dis
seminated. Mr. Voysey, whose entire separation from
the Established Church has been effected during the past
year, and from whom we had a most interesting Service
soon afterwards, has established a regular Sunday Morn
ing Service at St. George’s Hall, Langham Place,
attended by a Congregation which numbers from 800 to
1,000. The Sunday Lecture Society gives Literary and
Scientific Lectures at the same place on Sunday after
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noons, which are very fully attended; and on the Sunday
evening another Society (the Sunday Evenings for the
People} provides a similar Lecture at the same place. At
Croydon, Mr. Suffield, a seceder from the Roman Ca
tholic Church, in which he held an important position,
has succeeded in establishing a Free Religious Society
very similar to our own. To two of these Societies Mr.
Conway contributes his occasional assistance, and by
them all Principles of Thought are inculcated which are
identical with ours. Literature generally is becoming
more liberal in its tone; while the discussions that have
taken place throughout the country on the subject of
Education in connection with the School Boards has
tended in the same direction.
Nor is this progress
towards Mental Freedom confined to our own country.
Dr. Dollinger’s resistance to the dogma of Papal Infalli
bility has produced, and will produce hereafter, conse
quences as important as those which followed from
Luther’s denunciation of Papal Indulgences; while in
Germany generally, in Austria, in Italy, in France, and
indeed almost throughout the civilized world, strenuous
efforts are being made to take the education of the People
out of the hands of the Priesthood. All these evidences
of progress, with many others, are, your Committee
think, subjects for congratulation to the Congregation.
In proceeding to narrate the Congregational events of
the year, the Committee feel that the first place is due to
the memory of their late friend and coadjutor, Mr. Bra
ham, whose recent death has deprived them and the Con
gregation of a most efficient, energetic, and devoted Member.
Than Mr. Braham no member of the Congregation had its
interests more thoroughly at heart; he was always in his
place, and ever ready to devote both time and trouble to
its service. Your Committee felt it their duty to address
a special letter to Mrs. Braham expressive of their deep
sympathy with her, and of their high sense of their
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mutual loss. Mr. Conway conducted his funeral service,
which was attended by several members of the Congre
gation.
The services of the fear have been conducted, with a
few exceptions, by Mr. Conway, with increased pleasure
and advantage to the Congregation. He has devoted to
them a vast amount of thought and labour, and has shown
unflinching courage in denouncing many conventional
shams of the day. During his vacation he attended the
Miracle Plays at Ober-Ammergau, of which he gave us a
ihost vivid description on his return. The Committee
have felt great pleasure in having been enabled by the
Congregation to increase Mr. Conway’s income in the
past year, and thus to assist him in meeting the heavy
expenses which are entailed by the preparation of the
Lectures delivered here, so different in their character from
ordinary Pulpit ministrations. Two of his Lectures have
been published during the year by Mr. Scott, of Rams
gate, who is doing so much to spread Free Opinions
amongst those to whom he has access.
Besides the Service from Mr. Voysey, before alluded
to, we have had two most instructive and interesting
Services from Mr. Channing-, one in consequence of Mr.
Conway’s temporary illness, and the other on account of
his sudden engagement at Newcastle. Your Committee
cheerfully concur in the occasional absences of Mr. Con
way, not only from their desire to show courtesy to him,
but because they also feel that it is their duty to facilitate
the extension into new spheres of the Principles which
Mr. Conway so admirably inculcates. On one other
Sunday the Congregation had the great pleasure of listen
ing to an excellent Service from Mr. Robert Collyer,
of Chicago; in connexion with whom your Com
mittee cannot but allude to the dreadful fire which
occurred in the autumn at Chicago, by which his
Church and private dwelling were destroyed, with nearly
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all his personal property; and it is very gratifying to them
to be able to add that the Unitarian body in England
displayed their sympathy with him by contributing about
£3000 towards the restoration of the destroyed property.
On the Sunday of Mr. Collyer’s Service an impromptu
and informal meeting was afterwards held in the Chapel,
presided over by Mr. P. A. Taylor, the member for
Leicester, to petition Parliament for such an alteration of
the law with respect to Sunday Trading as should prevent
the partial and unjust oppression which was then being
exercised against a few poor shopkeepers, whom the
Magistrates were obliged unwillingly to convict and fine.
Your Committee, through their Treasurer, have the
pleasure of occasionally hearing from Mr. Sen, their
interesting visitor of last year, and of learning that,
partly by his efforts,' the Theistic movement is steadily
progressing throughout the vast population of India.
The friends of Mr. Sen in England, amongst whom are
to be reckoned many Members of this Congregation, have
had the pleasure of sending him an Organ for his Church,
which, it is hoped, arrived on New Year’s Day. Another
generation will probably see vast progress made towards
dispelling the darkness of Indian superstition by the
simple and rational efforts of Mr. Sen and his fellow
workers.
In the course of the year a case of gross. Religious
Persecution occurred at a township near Sydney, New
South Wales, which greatly excited the sympathies of the
Congregation. A person named Jones had been con
victed of Blasphemy, and sentenced to fine and imprison
ment, for the expression of sentiments, in a controversy
to which he had been provoked, which, at least, are not
very unlike our own. A Meeting was held in the
Chapel, and Resolutions were passed, but happily it was
not necessary to take any action in the matter, as the
conviction was quashed on appeal to the Superior Court.
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Several amateurs, Members of the Congregation, have
joined the Choir during the past year, in response to the
invitation of the Committee. It is still susceptible of
further improvement from further additions, and the
Committee repeat their invitation.
They also invite
volunteer additions to the Committee.
A very pleasant Soiree of the Members and their
Friends was held at the Cannon Street Hotel early in
June, which was fully attended. These reunions give an
opportunity to the Congregation of becoming personally
acquainted with each other, which is scarcely furnished
by the brief weekly meeting at the Chapel on Sunday
mornings, especially considering the different and distant
localities from which the Congregation gather, and the
absence of those other various means of personal inter
course possessed by most Congregations. The Com
mittee hope to arrange another Soiree shortly, and antici
pate from it not less pleasure than has been afforded by
previous ones. It is%ratifying to be able to state that
these pleasant Meetings are self-supporting, and do not
burden the General Funds.
In furtherance of the same object of promoting the
personal acquaintance of the members with each other
and with himself, Mr. Conway has instituted a series of
Receptions at his own residence, to which he invites the
Members of the Congregation.
Two such pleasant
Receptions have already been held, and it cannot be
doubted that they greatly tend to further the object
in view, that of assimilating the Congregation to the cha
racter of a Family, and of promoting mutual Union and
Cooperation.
The Treasurer’s Report shows the Receipts during the
year to have been £579 8s. 5d., and the Expenditure
£624 5s. Od., leaving a balance due to him of £44 16s. 7d.
It must be gratifying to the Congregation to observe
that, although a larger sum than usual has been paid to
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Mr. Conway for his invaluable services during the past
year, the deficiency to be now made up is much less than
usual. They feel it their duty, however, to state that the
Treasurer is almost always without Chapel Funds, chiefly
in consequence of many of the Seat Rents, which ought
to be all paid in advance, being considerably in arrear—
sometimes to the extent of a whole year. This is a state
of matters which ought not to exist, and your Committee
hope that it is only necessary to call attention to it to
ensure its being remedied.
The Benevolent Fund Report is as follows :—
1871.
Dr.
£ s. d.
Jan. 1. To Balance in
hand......... 32 1 3
Dec. 31. Subscriptions
and Donations
throughout the
year -............ 11 3 7
£43 4 10
1871.
Cr.
£ s. d.
Jan. 1 to Dec. 31.
By Annuities,
Donations, and
Christmas Gifts 11 2 0
Balance .........<....... 32 2 10
■ w
£43 4 10
During the past year the Committee have been en
abled to render help to others besides the one Annuitant
noW on the Fund ; especially have they been able to assist
one afflicted Member of the Congregation, and to help
him to help himself. They are glqd. still to have the
means of meeting any emergency that may arise.
Your Committee conclude their Report in the same
tone of congratulation with which they commenced it.
Looking back to the time when this Chapel was built—
not quite fifty years since—and noting the vast social
improvements which have since been effected, in the pro
motion of which this Congregation has honourably borne
its part, they cannot but feel that they have every encour
agement for continued effort. And there is still a vast
phalanx of evils against which to devote our efforts:
amongst them, at the present time, perhaps the most
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immediately prominent are the defects in the Education
Act of last session. Each and all of us must do whalFin
him lies to root out Denominational]’sm from the State
Education of flhe People, and' to effect a complete sepa
ration between Secular and Religious Teaching. When
that has been done and the Education Boards have got
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into working order, we may fairly hope for our Country
that the Night of Ignorance will have begun to*pass away,* *
and that the Day will be dawning in which Superstition
shall give place to Faith in Universal Law, and«the Heaven
hoped for in another world shall have commenced, its
realization in this.
January 28, 1872.
•
GEORGE LEVEY, PRINTER, WEST HARDING STREET, LONDON.
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REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE
OF
SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL,
FOB THE YEAB 1878.
�SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL
1878.
jMinister.
MONCURE D. CONWAY, M.A., Hamlet House, Hammersmith.
Committee.
Mrs. ANDERSON
Mr. E. K. BLYTH
„ W. BURR
„ G. W. COOKE
„ E. DALLOW '
„ R. G. HEMBER
„ G. HICKSON
„ P. HICKSON
„ R. S. JOHNSON
„ J. KNIGHT
„ E. R. LEVEY
Mrs. McMORRAN
Mr. W. J. REYNOLDS
„ C. H. SEYLER
‘
„ J. SHAW
„ W. SHURY
„ J. STOUT
Mrs. THOS. TAYLOR
Mr. W. D. THOMSON
„ A. J. WATERLOW
Miss WILLIAMS
treasurer anb Chairman.
Mr. GEORGE HICKSON, 35, Highbury New Park, N.
Secretary.
Mr. W. J. REYNOLDS, Elm House, Mare Street, Hackney.
'auditors.
Mr. McMORRAN
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Mr. J. A. LYON
®rustee».
Mr.
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WM. BURR
JNO. CUNNINGTON
GEO. HICKSON
J. A. LYON
M. E. MARSDEN
Mr.
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Sir
W. C. NEVITT
J. L. SHUTER
F. WALTERS
S. H. WATERLOW, Bart.,
M.P.
Mr. A. J. WATERLOW
Secretary Soiree Committee.
Mr. CORRIE B. GRANT, 1, Mitre Court Buildings, E.C.
d&oir=j¥laster.
Mr. J, TROUSSELLE, 7, Blandford Place, N.W.
�Mlfiport of the OTominittee
OF
SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL,
FOB, THE YEAH 1878,
The Committee in presenting the members of South
Place Congregation with the customary Annual Report, have
again the pleasure of recording a period of steady progress.
Not only is the financial position of the Society, as will be
seen from the annexed balance sheet, satisfactory; but what
is perhaps, of even more importance, there has been during
the past year a continued influx of new members. This cir
cumstance alone, apart from others to which attention wfll be
drawn, indicates that not only do the force and originality
of Mr. Conway’s discourses continue to command a deserved
popularity, but that liberal opinions in religious matters are—
notwithstanding many adverse influences—steadily advancing.
Probably, one of the circumstances that most tends to pre
vent the spread of advanced ideas in religion, as in politics,
is the want of union and sympathy between the various divi
sions of liberal opinion. Conscious of this, the Committee
gladly welcomed and assisted a proposal of Mr. Conway’s to
hold during the month of June a “ Conference of Liberal
Thinkers,” the meeting of which it was thought might pos
sibly result in some more systematic work being done in
furthering moral progress and spreading enlightened opinion.
This conference was held on June 13th and 14th, and was
well attended by ladies and gentlemen fairly representing
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the various schools of advanced thought, both in |Europe and
America. As might have been expected from such an assem
blage, much diversity of opinion prevailed, not only as to the
objects to be attained, but also concerning the best means of
securing them. Nevertheless, the papers read, and the dis
cussions held, had the result of clearing away much misappre
hension, and indicating many points of agreement between
minds of a very diverse order * The most important result,
however, was the formation of an “ Association of Liberal
Thinkers,” which.there is good reason to believe, will shortly
enter upon an energetic and useful career. In support of
these anticipations, it may be mentioned that the Association
has already, by the exertions of Mr. Conway, secured the
adhesion of the leading scientific and literary men. With
such honoured names as those which will duly appear, enlisted
for active work, it is scarcely rash to predict a character and
influence for the Association, which must redound to the credit
of the place where it was initiated.
Another matter that has engaged the attention of the Com
mittee, during the past year, has been the preparation of new
rules for the government of the Society. For some time past
it has been felt that the old rules were inadequate, and as no
provision was made for circulating them amongst the
members, many were unaware of the existence of any rules
whatever. Early in the year the Sub-Committee that had
been entrusted with the task of drafting a new code of rules,
reported, and the General Committee at a number of meet
ings carefully revised the work. The result was submitted
to a general meeting of the members on October 20th, and
the Committee feel well rewarded for the trouble they have
taken by the keen interest shown in the matter by the general
body of the members. Two adjournments were found neces* The Report of the proceedings has been printed, and can be obtained in
the Library.
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saxy., the rules being ultimately adopted, with some modifi
cations, on November 3rd, and confirmed, in accordance with
the provisions of the Trust Deed, on December 8th. Two
main objects have been pursued by those engaged in the
preparation of these rules. First, to extend and define the
rights of the members as fully as written regulations can do
so; and, secondly, to interest as many as possible in the active
work of the Society.
Amongst the events of the year, the Committee record
with satisfaction the following interesting incident. One of
our members, Mr. McIntyre, sought permission to make a
collection of surplus books for the use of the patients in
the various London Hospitals. The Committee willingly
gave their sanction and approval to the scheme, and have
pleasure in being able to state that no less than 1,500
volumes have been distributed amongst the Metropolitan
Hospitals.
Another circumstance also indicates that there is no lack
of energy in our Society. In the month of October, the
Committee were asked to permit a series of lectures on
Philosophy, to be given by Mr. James M. Rigg, B.A., Oxon.,
a gentleman who had recently come amongst us. Believing
that all educational efforts of a high character were completely
in accordance with the aims of the Society, the Committee
gladly granted the use of the building at a nominal charge,
and have the satisfaction of reporting that upwards of 100
ladies and gentlemen have given these lectures their support.
The Soirees have been held during the season with the
accustomed success, and the Soiree Committee have arranged
the details of these social gatherings with so much prudence
and care that they have been able to contribute materially
■towards the funds of the Society. It will also be freshly
within the recollection of the members that a most agree
able meeting has been held in the nature of a Reception
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to Mrs. Conway, on which occasion a substantial gift was
handed to Mr. and Mrs. Conway, in the name of the
congregation.
In addition to the usual ministrations, the Society has
had the pleasure of listening to discourses from Mrs.
Livermore and Colonel Higginson, both of the United
States ; from Dr. Andrew Wilson j an able representative of
liberal thought in Scotland ; and from Mr. J. Allanson
Picton, whose championship of religious freedom has made
him well known to us all. The discourses too of Mr. Conway
have been a continued source of pleasure and advantage to
our members, the freshness and impartiality with which he
has treated the numerous moral and social problems that
are now engaging public attention, being appreciated by
an ever widening circle of hearers. The Committee are also
happy to state that an arduous literary labour of Mr. Conway’s
has during the past year been completed. For nearly twenty
years the work on Demonology has engaged his anxious
attention ; and the important character, scope, and object of
this work can, perhaps, best be estimated by the following
short quotation from the preface :—
“ The natural world is overlaid by an unnatural religion,
“ breeding bitterness around simplest thoughts, obstructions to
“ science, estrangements not more reasonable than if they
“ resulted from various notions of lunar figures,—all derived
“ from the Devil-bequeathed dogma that certain beliefs and dis“ beliefs are of infernal instigation, Dogmas moulded in a fossil
“ demonology make the foundation of institutions which divert
“ wealth, learning, and enterprise to fictitious ends.
“ It has not, therefore, been mere intellectual curiosity
“ which has kept me working at this subject these many
“ years, but an increasing conviction that the sequelse of such
“ superstitions are exercising a still formidable influence.”
The musical arrangements, which have added so much to
the attractiveness of South Place Chapel in the past, have
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not been neglected during the past year; the Choir, under
the direction of Herr Trousselle, having maintained its high
character for efficiency.
In conclusion, the Committee congratulate the Members
on the prosperous and successful nature of the year’s
progress, on the increased activity and earnestness displayed
within the Society, and on the disposition shown to work
harmoniously for common aims; and they see no reason
why, with such forces at work, the character and influence
of South Place Religious Society should not be indefinitely
augmented as the years pass by.
ISTO TICE.
In accordance with the New Rules, seven members of the
Committee (the rotation determinable by lot) will retire from
^office at the ensuing General Meeting, and are not eligible
for re-election until next year. The members so retiring are
Mrs. McMorran, Miss Williams, Mr. W. Burr, Mr. Gr. W.
Cooke, Mr. E. R. Levey, Mr. W. J. Reynolds, and Mr. A. J.
Waterlow; in addition to which Mr. R. Gr. Hember, Mr. P,
Hickson, Mr. R. S. Johnson, and Mr. W, Shury have
resigned office. The members, therefore, will have to elect
eleven new members of Committee and two Auditors.
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Conway Tracts
South Place Chapel
South Place Committee
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REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE
OF
SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL
FOR THE YEAR 1877.
�SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL
1877.
JMinistcr.
MONCURE D. CONWAY, M.A., Hamlet House, Hammersmith
Committer.
Mrs. ANDERSON
Mr. E. K. BLYTH
„ W. BURR
„ G. W. COOKE
„ E. DALLOW
„ R. G. HEMBER
„ G. HICKSON
„ P. HICKSON
„ R. S. JOHNSON
„ J. KNIGHT
„ E. R. LEVEY
Mrs. McMORRAN
Mr. W. J. REYNOLDS
„ C. H. SEYLER
,, J. SHAW
„ W. SHURY
„ J. STOUT
Mrs. THOS. TAYLOR
Mr. W. D. THOMSON
,, A. J. WATERLOW
Miss WILLIAMS.
treasurer anti (^airman.
Mr. GEORGE HICKSON, 35, Highbury New Park, N.
Swretarp.
Mr. E. R. LEVEY, 162, The Grove, Camberwell, S.E.
Secretarp Soiree Committee.
Mr. CORRIE B. GRANT, 8, Fig Tree Court, Temple, E.C.
®^o(r=j|¥Iaater.
Mr. J. TROUSSELLE, 7, Blandford Place, N.W.
�REPORT
OF THE
COMMITTEE OF SOUTH PLACE CHAPEL
FOB THE TEAR 1877.
Your Committee are glad, while submitting their Annual Report,
to be able to express their assurance of the growing appreciation
of the cause promoted at South Place, shown in the rapidlyincreasing numbers that attend the services, and listen with rapt
attention to Mr. Conway’s interesting discourses. Satisfactory
evidence of this is to be found in tho amount received for seat
rents, which from £431 in 1875, rose to £478 in 1876, and
£586 in the year just concluded.
In consequence of this increaso in the attendance, your
Committee deemed it necessary, for the purpose of providing
additional accommodation in the body of the hall, to re-arrange
the sittings, and by so doing they have obtained 52 more seats,
many of which are already let.
It will be within the recollection of the majority of the
Members of this Society that last year a guarantee-fund,
amounting to £1,700, was formed; and it is with much satisfac
tion that your Committee refer to the accompanying Balance
Sheet to show that the current expenses of the year have again,
notwithstanding the additional demands made upon the resources
of the Chapel, been fully met without calling upon the
Guarantors.
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One of the first duties your Committee had to consider, was
the preparation of the Hymn Book for a reprint, the first
impression of 1,500 copies having been exhausted; and it was a
great satisfaction to them to be able, by printing 4,500 copies, to
produce an edition, a part of which, printed on cheaper paper,,
might be sold at Is. a copy. About 500 copies of this re-issue
have already been disposed of. Typographical and other errors
in the previous issue have been corrected, and the work now
takes its place as one of the best of the kind for the use of free
religious Societies. It is gratifying to know that one other
Congregation, viz., that of the Rev. Gr. Dale, of Burton-on-Trent,
has already adopted it, and it may confidently be expected that
other Societies will do the same.
Your Committee regret that they have been unable to carry
out the resolution, passed at the last annual general meeting,
“ that the whole question of the music be referred to arbitra
tion.” Mr. H. K. Moore, acting under the advice of his friends,
declined to submit to arbitration the only point really at issue,
viz.: the right of the congregation to the continued use of the
music composed and arranged by him, during his tenure of
the office of Musical Director, for the use of the Congregation
in connexion with their hymn book. Your Committee therefore
took steps for the preparation of new tune books, and are
pleased to express their acknowledgment of the valuable as
sistance rendered by the choir-master, Mr. J. Trousselle, in the
composition and selection of music, and of the general efficiency
of the choir under his able and energetic management.
The amount received for letting the chapel is in excess of the
previous year, although the Sunday League have not engaged it
for their “ Sunday Evenings for the People,” and a growing item
of revenue may be looked for from this source. The Committee
congratulate the League in being able to carry on their good work
in a larger and more commodious building.
The Annual Soiree was held at the Cannon Street Hotel
with unprecedented success; and the Monthly Soirees have taken
place in the Chapel, affording pleasant opportunities for the
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members of the Society to become better acquainted. The Com
mittee cannot sufficiently thank the ladies and gentlemen who
arrange these evenings in so satisfactory a manner.
The Chapel was closed during the month of August. On the
other Sundays of the year, Mr. Conway has delivered discourses
noticeable for those distinctive charms and qualities, always iden
tified in our minds with his name. Several of these discourses
have been printed during the year, and Mr. Conway has pub
lished his “Idols and Ideals,” a work embodying much of the
thought contained in discourses previously delivered at South
Place. These publications have been received by the congrega
tion with evident satisfaction.
A meeting was held in the Chapel on Sunday, the 6th of May,
to support the policy indicated in the resolutions which the
Eight Hon. W. E. Gladstone proposed moving in the House of
Commons on the following day. Eesolutions to that effect were
passed by the meeting, and a petition signed by the chairman
was presented to the House of Commons. It is hoped that the
deplorable war which has during the past year raged in Turkey,
may shortly be terminated by an enduring peace, under which
freedom and good government may be secured for the oppressed
populations of Eastern Europe,
A collection was made in the Chapel on Sunday, the 28th
October, in aid of the funds of the Normal College for the Blind,
when the sum of <£33 Is. 8cL was contributed.
In April last a bust of the late W. J. Fox, by the late eminent
sculptor Mr. T. Earle, was presented to the Congregation by his
widow, and the Committee took it upon themselves, to tender to
her, the best thanks of the congregation for her acceptable present.
The members of South Place Chapel will be glad to hear that the
kindred Society meeting at the Atheneeum, Camden Eoad, con
tinues to attract those who are beginning to face the religious
problems of the day; and in this way many who might never
reach South Place are brought into sympathy with its views and
objects.
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In conclusion, your Committee believe that the progress of
freedom and the growth of intellectual activity, both of which
this Society has so warmly at heart, are evidenced by the move
ments which have taken place in the religious and smentific
world, and especially in the cordial reception which has been
recently accorded to Mr. Darwin, and the honour awarded to him
by one of our most ancient Universities ; in the overwhelming
majority, by which Convocation has now admitted Women to
the degrees of the University of London, and by the important,
events which have taken place in France and other parts of
the world during the past year.
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A collection of digitised nineteenth-century pamphlets from Conway Hall Library & Archives. This includes the Conway Tracts, Moncure Conway's personal pamphlet library; the Morris Tracts, donated to the library by Miss Morris in 1904; the National Secular Society's pamphlet library and others. The Conway Tracts were bound with additional ephemera, such as lecture programmes and handwritten notes.<br /><br />Please note that these digitised pamphlets have been edited to maximise the accuracy of the OCR, ensuring they are text searchable. If you would like to view un-edited, full-colour versions of any of our pamphlets, please email librarian@conwayhall.org.uk.<br /><br /><span><img src="http://www.heritagefund.org.uk/sites/default/files/media/attachments/TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" width="238" height="91" alt="TNLHLF_Colour_Logo_English_RGB_0_0.jpg" /></span>
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Report of the committee of South Place Chapel for the year 1877
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Place of publication: London
Collation: 6, [1] p, ; 22 cm.
Notes: From the library of Dr Moncure Conway.
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Conway Tracts
South Place Chapel
South Place Committee