Publications of the University of Manchester: Historical series, Volume 33University Press, 1919 - History |
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Page 135 - Robert Owen, took a prominent part in the agitation for the Ten Hours Factory Act and was sent to London to confer with various MP's when the Bill was before the House of Commons. He assisted in forming the North of England Co-operative Wholesale Society, of which he was one of the first directors, and up to the time of his death was a director of the Cooperative Insurance Society. His friend, William Cooper, described him as " a free-thinker in religion." He appears to have been loosely connected...
Page 46 - And whereas an Act was passed in the fifty-third year of the reign of King GEORGE the Third, intituled, " An Act to relieve Persons who impugn the Doctrine of the Holy Trinity from certain Penalties...
Page 84 - And he said unto them, What have I done now in comparison of you ? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abi-ezer?
Page 28 - Christianity which few, perhaps, will have expected ; and are thus fitted to afford encouragement to those who, in this country especially, are exposed to no small obloquy, in consequence of their maintenance of the simple teachings of the Bible ; namely, that God is one, and that the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ is the only true God.
Page 99 - It appears clearly from the Returns, as well as from other sources, that a very great deficiency exists in the means of educating the Poor, wherever the population is thin and scattered over country districts. The efforts of individuals combined in societies are almost wholly confined to populous places. Another point to which it is material to direct the attention of Parliament, regards the two opposite principles, of founding schools for children of all sorts, and for those only who belong to the...
Page 6 - I, in the simplicity of* our hearts, told the good people of England, that unless they knew their sins were forgiven, they were under the wrath and curse of God, I marvel, Melville, they did not stone us ! The Methodists, I hope, know better now : we preach assurance as we always did, as a common privilege of the children of God ; but we do not enforce it, under the pain of damnation, denounced on all who enjoy it not.
Page 100 - We know what such a school too often is ; a room crusted with filth, without light, without air, with a heap of fuel in one corner and a brood of chickens in another...
Page 17 - Thur. 7. — We left the mountains, and came down to the fruitful valley of Rosendale. Here I preached to a large congregation of wild men ; but it pleased God to hold them in chains. So that even when I had done, none offered any rudeness, but all went quietly away. We came to Manchester between one and two. I had no thought of preaching here, till I was informed John Nelson had given public notice, that I would preach at one o'clock. I was now in a great strait, Their house would...
Page 57 - Plans of 1812 and 1817 is to be identified with the man of the same name who is one of the first list of members of the Todmorden Unitarian Society of 1823, and described a little later as