Labour Church

[2][3] The first Labour Church was founded at Manchester in October 1891 by a Unitarian minister, John Trevor.

The service included the Lord's Prayer, hymns social in character, readings from Whitman, Emerson, Lamennais, Lowell, Whittier, Ruskin, Carlyle, and Maurice, and an address.

[4] It asserted that "improvement of social conditions and the development of personal character are both essential to emancipation from social and moral bondage, and to that end insists upon the duty of studying the economic and moral forces of society.

"[1] Soon the Church expanded to other towns including Birmingham, Bradford, Bolton, Leeds, London, Nottingham, Oldham, Plymouth and Wolverhampton.

[3] In December 1893 the first Labour Church in the United States was opened in Essex County, Massachusetts.