The Story of W. J. E. Bennett, Founder of S. Barnabas', Pimlico, and Vicar of Froome-Selwood: And of His Part in the Oxford Church Movement of the Nineteenth Century
The Story of W. J. E. Bennett, Founder of S. Barnabas', Pimlico, and Vicar of Froome-Selwood: And of His Part in the Oxford Church Movement of the Nineteenth Century
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Saviour, the interests of the poor man identified with those of the rich; the fatherless and widows visited in their affliction; the travailing women attended to and cared for; the consolations of religion afforded to the dying, and pastoral care bestowed upon the living; the naked clothed; the hungry fed; the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1909 Excerpt: ...Saviour, the interests of the poor man identified with those of the rich; the fatherless and widows visited in their affliction; the travailing women attended to and cared for; the consolations of religion afforded to the dying, and pastoral care bestowed upon the living; the naked clothed; the hungry fed; the houseless protected, --and all this, by whose instrumentality, under God's providence, but by his, against whom the finger of scorn is now pointed and the arm of persecution raised to strike him down--even against the zealous, persevering, faithful, and consistent incumbent of S. Barnabas', Pimlico." The subsequent history of S. Barnabas' is naturally part of our subject. The little church continued in the forefront of the battle for ritual decency for six years to come. All depended on the result of that battle. Had the very moderate ritual of S. Barnabas' been stopped, it would have been far more difficult to revive it elsewhere. On Mr. Bennett's resignation, the Bishop appointed as Perpetual Curate, Mr. Liddell, a man of precisely the same opinions and principles, which appointment rendered his insistence on Mr. Bennett's resignation an absurdity. Mr. Liddell had already, by March 25, secured the services of James Skinner as senior and responsible Curate of S. Barnabas', himself attending chiefly to S. Paul's. On September 30 Charles Lowder became the helper of Skinner in the S. Barnabas' work. This arrangement continued till Mr. Skinner's illnesses enforced his resignation of the work at the end of 1856, in the August of which year Mr. Lowder had left to begin his work in the parish of S. George's-in-the-East. The riots continued, as we have said, through a large part of 1851. It was necessary to keep a number of special constables, members of...
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