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35-649: The EPS sought, as did the National Union of Protestants (NUP), to serve as an umbrella organisation for evangelicals in the various Protestant denominations and organisations. The Union collapsed in the early 1950s and Norman Porter , who had been the NUP's director since 1948, took over as secretary of the EPS in 1953. In the same year Porter was elected an Independent Unionist MP in the Northern Ireland general election , losing

70-606: A Catholic mass. In 1966, he organised a protest at Westminster Abbey , attended by Paisley and John Wylie, against the Jesuit Thomas Corbishley being permitted to speak during a service. William Wand John William Charles Wand , KCVO , PC (25 January 1885 – 16 August 1977) was an English Anglican bishop . He was the Archbishop of Brisbane in Australia before returning to England to become

105-503: A fine of up to £5. However, it stated that Christians should "turn the other cheek" to the protesters. In 1946, the group launched a branch in Belfast , with Paisley as its "Irish representative". It organised a memorial to Ulster Unionist Party politician James Little . At its launch event on Belfast High Street, organising secretary Matthew Arnold Perkins stated that it would be active across Northern Ireland , and that it would examine

140-579: A lecture tour of the United States of America in 1940. He argued in support of a new constitution for the Church, but thought that the proposed appellate tribunal should have a majority of bishops, rather than legal laymen, to determine points of doctrine. During World War II , when Brisbane resembled a garrison town, Wand and his wife worked for the Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen's Help Society . His 1942 address to

175-504: A neighbouring state to Bechuanaland. Wand's refusal to sanction a church ceremony forced Khama and Williams to get married in a civil service four days later, at Kensington Registry Office in London. After resigning as bishop, Wand was appointed minor canon and later Canon Treasurer of St Paul's Cathedral , London, until 1969 and edited The Church Quarterly Review . A wide-ranging and facile historian, he wrote forty-five books, among them

210-566: A post for Wand in England. The death of the Bishop of Bath and Wells provided that opportunity. Early in 1943, Wand was offered the see of Bath and Wells, and the family left Brisbane in July the same year. Wand was surprisingly translated to London two years later, being interviewed personally by Winston Churchill at a lunch he described in his autobiography. Both appointments caused some dissension since Wand

245-568: A property and finance board to handle the economic problems of the diocese also did not meet with general favour. As a member of the University of Queensland senate, Wand worked to promote biblical studies and helped to create the first university theological faculty in Australia. During his episcopate he wrote a weekly article for The Courier-Mail , translated the New Testament epistles and gave

280-689: The Bishop of Bath and Wells before becoming the Bishop of London . William Wand was born in Grantham , Lincolnshire, the son of Arthur James Henry Wand, a butcher, and his wife Elizabeth Ann Ovelin, née Turner. Despite Wand's father being a staunch Calvinist , his mother brought him up in the Church of England . Educated at The King's School, Grantham and St Edmund Hall , Oxford, where he took first-class honours in theology (BA, 1907; MA, 1911), he prepared for ordination at Bishop Jacob Hostel , Newcastle upon Tyne . He

315-801: The Pope was the Antichrist . Others who (as of December 2012) hold senior posts in the EPS include its president Rev. Dr William J. Malcolmson, a minister of the Congregational Reformed Church in east Belfast, and an activist in the Orange Order and Royal Black Institution , and its chairman Vincent Shortt, a member of the Presbyterian Church , the Orange Order, the Black Institution and

350-638: The Royal Society of St George defended the British war effort and was published as the pamphlet, "Has Britain Let Us Down?" This brought Wand to the attention of Brendan Bracken , Minister of Information, and of Prime Minister Winston Churchill . It was already known that Wand was unpopular in Australia since the Archbishop of Perth had written to the Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple , asking Temple to find

385-744: The creationist pressure group the Caleb Foundation . Thompson, a member of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church , the Independent Orange Order and the Apprentice Boys of Derry , is a former civil servant. In 2008, while employed as an adviser to Nigel Dodds , a minister in the Northern Ireland Executive , Thompson caused some controversy by asserting in a radio interview (in his capacity as EPS secretary) that

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420-613: The Apprentice Boys. David McConaghie, a Free Presbyterian minister and Democratic Unionist Party official, and a co-founder of the Caleb Foundation, served on the EPS Council from 1999 but his name disappeared from its website in late 2012. DUP politician George Dawson , who joined the EPS Council in 2001, was its treasurer at the time of his death in 2007. National Union of Protestants The National Union of Protestants

455-571: The Moorhouse lectures in Melbourne in 1936. He consecrated Ss Peter and Paul Cathedral, Dogura , Papua (now Papua New Guinea ) on 29 October 1939. The date was continually altered owing to the start of World War II and its isolated position. Dogura is in Milne Bay Province . The cathedral was built on a battle site, held 800 with a further 500 standing outside at the consecration. Wand made

490-503: The church. The Church Times printed a strongly worded article complaining about the tactics of the National Union of Protestants. It claimed that the group had avoided protests in parishes "where there is a larger proportion of Christians engaged in heavy industries, who sometimes might not know their own physical strength", and noted that disrupting a clergyman celebrating a sacrament was punishable by up to two months in prison, or

525-538: The confirmation of William Wand as Bishop of London , shouting out slogans at intervals to disrupt the service. The following year, they targeted a mass at St Cuthbert's, Earls Court , and Taylor invaded the pulpit to give a short speech before he was ejected. Later in the year, fifty supporters delayed the Bishop of Liverpool 's mass at the Church of Saint John the Baptist, Liverpool for thirty minutes; he later stated that he had received anonymous threats not to attend

560-655: The day-to-day work is undertaken by the secretary, who also edits The Ulster Bulwark . Porter's successors as secretary included Seamus Milligan, and Ray Pulman. Pulman, a former assistant minister of the Congregational Reformed Church who was involved with the EPS from 1997, was a former secretary of ILOL6, a member lodge of the Independent Grand Orange Lodge but in 2001 abandoned Orangeism on theological grounds. The current part-time secretary, Wallace Thompson, in 2009 also became chairman of

595-759: The early ecumenical movement. He was the first Chairman of the Executive body of the British Council of Churches, attending the 1948 foundation of the World Council of Churches in Amsterdam. On 25 September 1948, Seretse Khama , a 27-year-old black African man, and Ruth Williams , a 24-year-old white English woman, went to the Anglican St George's Church in Campden Hill , London, to get married. Half an hour before

630-632: The enemy and his guns". Wand's autobiography is an evocative but rarely used source of first-hand experience of Gallipoli, and Wand also wrote letters published in the Salisbury Diocesan Chronicle , including a reflection on how the reputation of padres depended on their willingness to display bravery. "The soldier needs not only a man who can preach to him, however eloquently, or pray with him, however movingly, or arranges his recreation for him, however good humouredly, but one who will lay his remains to rest in his last resting place in spite of

665-568: The group to remain non-denominational, so Paisley left in about 1950. The group in Ireland disintegrated soon afterwards, with Porter instead becoming director of the Evangelical Protestant Society , although Paisley and Porter continued to collaborate on individual campaigns. By the 1950s, Perkins had become the director of the group, and in 1957 he campaigned against the BBC broadcasting

700-618: The nearby St Mary Abbots church in Kensington to meet Wand, who, as Bishop of London, was performing an ordination. There they attempted to gain Wand's consent to be married in the Church of England. However, Wand refused such permission without even speaking to the couple himself, sending the Archdeacon of Middlesex with a message that read: "Get in touch with the Colonial Office. When they agree to

735-537: The practice of the Church of Ireland to see whether there was evidence of the practices to which it objected. It undertook various protests, including one in 1948 against the Belfast Museum and Art Gallery opening on Sundays. In 1948, Norman Porter became the secretary of the group, while Paisley continued as treasurer. However, Porter refused to join Paisley's Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster , and wished for

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770-411: The seat in 1958 and failing to retake it in 1959 and 1969. The Society has published a range of Protestant literature and a free quarterly magazine, The Ulster Bulwark . Its representatives have addressed meetings and services across Northern Ireland and beyond. The EPS sought to modernise its operations in 2000-01, and, today, much of its work is media based. The work is directed by the EPS Council, and

805-474: The service their vicar, the Reverend Leonard Patterson, under severe pressure from various parties opposed to the inter-racial marriage, told the couple he was not willing to perform at the ceremony. Khama, who was heir to the kingship of the British protectorate of Bechuanaland , and Williams, who was a London insurance clerk, pleaded with Patterson to change his mind, but instead he took them to

840-789: The suffragan bishop of Plymouth. He was enthroned in St John's Cathedral, Brisbane on 5 September, after arriving in Brisbane on 30 August. Wand's arrival in Queensland was almost immediately clouded by the death in a climbing accident, near Chamonix-Mont-Blanc on the France/Switzerland border, of his only son, Paul (1912–34). He had a difficult reception: those who had wanted a local dignitary as their new bishop united to oppose Wand. His attempts to eradicate slackness made him appear authoritarian to his clergy. Sturdy in appearance, shy and gracious, Wand

875-535: The terror by night or the arrow that flieth by day. And who can blame him?" Wand was attached to Australian hospitals and hospital ships but caught paratyphoid and had to be evacuated to Malta and then to London. He had recovered by April, 1916, and was posted to Rouen and after the Armistice , to Cologne . Demobilised in March 1919, Wand was made perpetual curate of St Mark's , Salisbury , where St Clair Donaldson

910-608: The veneration of saints and the adoration of the sacrament . The group's general secretary was W. St Clair Taylor, who described himself as a reverend, although he was not attached to any church. Taylor's nephew was Ian Paisley , a young preacher in Northern Ireland , who was later to become leader of the Democratic Unionist Party and First Minister of Northern Ireland . The group organised protests in Anglican churches. In 1945, members sat in various locations during

945-426: The wedding, I will". Although senior officials at the Colonial Office had no say over whether the couple could get married in a church, or indeed anywhere else, they had made it known through various back channels that they were opposed to the union, not only because they found it distasteful but because they believed that, given Khama's royal status, it would create political difficulties with apartheid South Africa,

980-518: Was Anglo-Catholic in a Chaplaincy in which ‘low church’ predominated. He was posted to Gallipoli , and would write vividly of his experience there. For example, his simile of Sulva Bay conveys the fearsome context of British positions on a narrow beach. "Our position on that beach was rather like that of a theatre orchestra as he turns his back on the stage and looks up at the tiers of boxes and galleries in front and on either hand. Only in this case they were not filled with an applauding audience but with

1015-528: Was a campaign group of evangelical Protestants in the United Kingdom . The group was founded in or shortly before 1944, when it placed an advert in The Times setting out its principles, which centred on the elimination of various practices in the Church of England which it held were not in line with Protestantism. In particular, it was opposed to the celebration of Mass , belief in transubstantiation ,

1050-461: Was bishop. In 1925 Wand became a fellow and the dean of Oriel College, Oxford and university lecturer in church history. Eight years later Bishop St Clair Donaldson was asked by archbishop Cosmo Lang to nominate a candidate for the see of Brisbane as archbishop . Wand was consecrated in St Paul's Cathedral , London, on 1 May 1934, by archbishop Lang, together with the new bishop of Johannesburg and

1085-458: Was no admirer of Wand, writing after Wand's retirement, ‘Wand had been interested only in certain aspects of diocesan life. It was high time that the Diocese of London was placed in firm hands’. Conversely, the scholarly Canon Charles Smyth wrote of Wand that he ‘ Was methodical, patient, shrewd, far-sighted, never complacent, but always cheerful, and physically robust.’ Dean Marcus Wright noted ‘There

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1120-422: Was nothing deceitful or ‘smooth’ about him: he was a straight man of integrity and you always knew where you were with him. He was no actor.’ High-powered as Wand was, the human side was expressed through a supply of detective stories read in bed at night and, as a family man, notably Saturday afternoons ‘sacred to the weekly visit to the cinema with Mrs Wand'. With the Bishop of Fulham Basil Batty , he supported

1155-470: Was often seen as being aloof and something of an intellectual snob though this belied his natural humour and quick wit. The decision to move St Francis's Theological College from Nundah to the Bishopsbourne property was unpopular, although Wand's relations with its students won him their respect and affection and its proximity to the Archbishop's home improved the standards of training. His establishment of

1190-524: Was ordained a deacon in 1908 and a priest in 1909. He served curacies at Benwell and Lancaster . On 11 October 1911 he married Amy Agnes Wiggins (1883-1966) at St Leonard's parish church in Watlington, Oxfordshire and they had two children. In 1914, he was appointed vicar-choral of Salisbury, and became part of a cathedral family centred on ‘the Close’. Wand volunteered for the army chaplaincy in July, 1915. He

1225-605: Was suspected ‘...of Papish practice, and was roughly handled by Protestant demonstrators at his confirmation ....’ In London post-war difficulties, including the rebuilding of shattered city churches, challenged and revealed Wand's administrative gifts. As bishop, Wand was a privy counsellor ; in 1955 he was appointed KCVO ; in 1946-57 he was prelate of the Order of the British Empire . He resigned his see as Bishop of London in 1956. Archbishop Fisher had preceded Wand at London, and

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