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Liberal Party were the Nonconformists. The Nonconformists
and the Church of England wore separated on political lines,
the Established Church was largely committed to Conservatism
while the Nonconformists from 1874 had looked to the Liberals
to provide educational reform, temperance reform and the
social improvements envisaged by trades unionists. By 1882
the Church of England was sharing in the development of
Imperialist sentiment within the Conservative Party, The
hierarchy in 1882 showed a well-dovelopod, sense of the
Imp»rial responsibility,, -a paper cent after Tol-of-Kobir
to all l3tchopn read$ - "The signal success which has been
given to our army in Egypt, devando the thankful acknowledgemonts
of the English people to God, who has endowed our generals
with skill and forethought, our soldiers with discipline and
our whole army with valour. Anarchy in Egypt meant dangers
to that wide Empire which we have received as a trusts and
which we may not abandon; and our war against anarchy was
an inevitable war. " (1)
A prayer of thanksgiving to be
inverted in church services, read, "We glorify thee for the
late victory granted to our army$ whereby, no in a moment,
pence has been restored to Egypt, the highway between England
(1) Gladotono HSS, At nm=. 44.476# Genaral corrcopoadenco,
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Archbichop of York to cW atone 18th &optheber
$ 1882.
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