Nonconformist conscience

The Nonconformist conscience of the Old group emphasized religious liberty and equality; pursuit of justice; and opposition to discrimination, compulsion, and coercion.

The Liberal party leader William Gladstone warned that if Parnell retained his powerful role the leadership, it would mean the loss of the next election, the end of their alliance and also of the Irish Home Rule movement.

[8] It was one of the most successful religious newspapers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, founded and nominally edited by William Robertson Nicoll till his death in 1923, but in fact mostly led by his assistant Jane T. Stoddart.

To read the Liberal newspapers of the day you would imagine that the Cecils were preparing to revive the policy of Laud if not of Strafford, and that in every village a Nonconformist Hampden was about to rise against their persecution".

[11] In the middle of the Second World War, the United Reformed minister and theologian Harry Francis Lovell Cocks published The Nonconformist Conscience (1943) in which he declared that the movement "is the mark of a spiritual aristocracy, a counterblast to coronets and mitres".