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123,
The editorital of the Uonconforrnb it and Independent was
beginning; to rocret the series of 1;
#,, 7ptigLn complications
und take consolation from the hope that the Yrun, hiima
Bill would produce "a Hounc of Co=ono that will make
short work of Jingoism under whatever disEuise. ir
In 1885 Reginald Brett regardod the Din00nter3 as
the main force behind the oppocition to the war in 1E85. (2)
Protest came from local churches or groupo of churcho8
rather than from national ]. ondero such as Rogcrn, J. Clifford
(a loading Baptiot) or W. Dale (a Birmingham ainictor and
friend of Chamberlain), *.
A 1: rivato mooting of Nonconforriote
in London for examples was reported to have broken up
without coming to any decition on the irrer.
(3)
I1bjority
opinion in the periodicals, howeverg war. definitely un, ti-
wur# The Nonconformist and Indo]aendent1 Bartiat and
Priritive fiethodjnt urged the withdrawal of forcoo from the
Sudan and encouraged roadero to make their opinion felt,
Only the Wocloyan Iäothodist poriddical iothodist 4iren
edited by Hugh Price Hughes diverged from the conccnouo in
supporting
the wer.
(if)
It hoped that the forces would not
(1) IOnconforttint and ! ndetaondont k 13th ? larch 'i084s
(2) Reginald Brett, a it, ppo. 109.110.
(3) Echo 5th February 1885.
(4) The Wesleyan X ethodisto wore the most apolitical of the
N onconformjata and tho moot recent converts from
Conoorvatiam to Liborn3ien.