[OccupySheffield] Tradition?

[David Kirkham]

Anyone else notice this from 'The Guardian' letters on 19 December? "Events at St Paul's echo events in Sheffield in the 1840s when the Chartists marched on the parish church demanding that the vicar preach on the first five verses of the fifth chapter of St James's epistle which begin "Go to now ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries shall come upon you … Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you." The clergy preferred Proverbs 24: "My son, fear thou the Lord and King, and meddle not with them that are given to change." There were no seats for the poor of Sheffield because all the pews were rented, so they were thrown out promising to come back the following Sunday; then they were arrested by the police to appear before the magistrates, who were the vicar and church wardens.
Rev Paul Nicolson
Chair, Zacchaeus 2000 Trust " http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/19/occupy-st-pauls-evict?INTCMP=SRCH
 FYI, what was the parish church in the 1840s is now called the Cathedral... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Cathedral  



David 
 
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