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Where was soze disagreement among Nonconformists in 188_5j
and a minority of letters to the dissenting press supported
the Sudan war; these letters often viewed the Sudan as a
fragment of the total Empire which must be protected at all
costs, "we must bid farewell to the integrity of our Empire,
for we should be quite unable to protect the immense commerce
which is so great an element in our national prosperity. " (1)
Henry Richard(2 fter addressing a meeting of Kettering Liberal
Association, asked the pastors of the Baptist, Congregational
and Wesleyan chapels to put an anti-war resolution to their
congregations at Sunday service. There were differing responses,
- the resolution was passed by the Baptist chapel, but most of
the Congregationalists refused to voto# while the Wesleyan
minister would not put the resolution at all.
(3)
it was also
noted that the response of Baptists and Congregationalists to an
invitation to attend a London pence meeting had been poor$
(1) ZýUonvonformit t to Independent, 9th April 1885.
(2) 11enry Richard wan the non of a Calvinistic flethodist minister
and had hinnneif beon a Congregationalist tilnater before
devoting himself to politics, see Lewis Appleton, ilc3nr
Richard. Apcint1o of Ponce, London 1889,
(3) a=, titt, 27th February 1885.
(4) M, thodi, t Ti, resg 9th April 1885.
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