Category: History - British

Congregationalism in the Court Suburb

Transcribed from the 1883 Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price, email [email protected]. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries for allowing their copy to be consulted for this transcription.

Chapters

3. Part 3

Amongst the families connected with the Church during Dr. Leifchild’s pastorate, two in particular may be mentioned, noteworthy on their own account, and whom I can describe fro...

4. Part 4

Mrs. Leifchild might well be proud of her husband; and here, in conclusion, let me repeat what I have said elsewhere: his sermons were constructed upon the principle of reaching...

7. Part 7

“I did not renounce the idea of a co-pastorate until I was convinced from experience and observation that such a co-pastorate as I desired was impracticable. I remember often sa...

2. Part 2

In 1798 the general monthly prayer meeting of the London Missionary Society was held at Hornton Street, and the Rev. Dr. Haweis, it is stated in the Church book, preached from t...

5. Part 5

On reviewing the appearance of the neighbourhood, compared with what it was years before, changes were visible. Kensington had enlarged, the population had increased; still ther...

6. Part 6

“Other considerations, which we need not enumerate, have occurred to our minds. The foregoing we venture to submit to your attention. They have led us to the conclusion that, ho...

8. Part 8

“He had himself got to the heavenward side of life. He was as busy as he had ever been, entering fully into the work, thinking and planning about it, as if he were still young,...

1. Part 1

Transcribed from the 1883 Hodder and Stoughton edition by David Price, email [email protected]. Many thanks to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Libraries for allowing...

9. Part 9

“In January, 1880, at a meeting held at the house of Mr. Edward Spicer, and attended by the late Dr. Raleigh, the deacons of the Church, and other ministers and laymen, it was r...