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The Church and the Public House

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  The Church and the Public House Rev. Thomas Hancock Date: 3 rd Sunday after Easter 1888 (An extract from the sermon ‘The Church and the Public House: or Temperance not to be used as a Cloak of Maliciousness’ from Welsby (1970)) Text: As free, and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness, but as the servants of God. Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the King. 1 Peter 2: 16-17 As it is the special temptation of the free man to abuse his liberty to libertinism in thought and conduct, so it is the special temptation of the professional temperance-man to rush into the wildest degrees of tyrannical intemperance. It has become a truism that he exceeds all the rest of mankind in his intoxication. He has to be particularly on guard lest his temperance, like the other’s liberty, be used ‘as a cloak of maliciousness’. The maliciousness of the temperance man, as the outsiders view it, assumes two forms – firstly, a most unreasonable social or rather
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Rev. Thomas Hancock (1832 - 1903)

 This is a call for all information about Rev Thomas Hancock (1832-1903) to be be collected and collated. I know a limited amount from 'Sermons and Society' Ed Welsby and 'The Victorian Christian Socialists' by Edward Norman, I have two references to him being a young friend of Stewart Headlam. I also have the text of a sermon preached on 27th February 1887 - ' The banner of Christ in the hands of the socialists '. That you can read on this blog. There is also the text of a sermon - ' The Church and the public house ' Article - ' What would Jesus do? The "Occupation" of St Paul's Cathedral, February 1887 ' Biography from 'Sermons and Society' - Ed by Welsby Biography – Welsby (1970) Thomas Hancock was ordained in 1863. He held a succession of curacies but, because of his political and social views, he was overlooked by the Church authorities for most of his life and lived from hand to mouth until 1883, when H. C. Shuttle
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The Banner of Christ in the Hands of the Socialists

  Sermons and Society (Ed Welsby) Title: The Banner of Christ in the Hands of the Socialists 27 th February 1887 Text: “In that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people: to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious. And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people which shall be left … “ Isa. 11:10-11   The ‘masses of the common people’ will deliver the church from the patronage and control of the rich; the church is on the side of ‘mammon and caste’, of feudal and commercial interests; the Socialists are the true exponents of the life and teaching of Christ. For fifty years the national bishops and the patron-made clergy – pastors who have been chosen for ‘the masses’ by Mammon and Caste – have been at their wits’ end how to persuade the crowds of the disinherited and oppressed to become, or own themselves to be, members incorpora
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Bankrupt Prophet

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  Bankrupt prophet   Staring at his empty coffee; the message hits, no, he's not angry. All we want is liberation, for the downtrodden, joy for those with no hope, a new meaning. Truth. He drains his coffee. People are empty, in a bankrupt world; waiting to be filled with the truth. His friend turns up his nose, suggests we put in the idea for 'feedback'. -rod IG:@mr.pleco03997
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