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Performance TitleGreat United Demonstration - The Reformation: A Crisis and Call to Action
Performance Date31 March 1925
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:30
Main PerformersRt. Hon. Sir William Joynson-Hicks Bt MP (Home Secrteary),
Rev. J Chalmers Lyon,
Rev. Hon. W Talbot Rice,
Rev. Sidney M Berry,
H. Martyn Gooch,
Rt. Rev. Bishop E A Knox,
Venerable Archdeacon J H Thorpe,
Rev. H W Hinde,
Rev. Thomas Nightingale - speakers
Allan Brown - organ
ChoirsLondon Sunday School Choir
ConductorsWalter White
Set ListMeeting:
Speeches,
Resolutions - alteration of the character of the National Church would be a disaster to the religious life of the nation and Empire, and appealing to the bishop's and to Parliament to maintain its Protestant character.

Music:
Anthem: 'My Soul, O Praise the Lord', Bach,
Hymn: 'O Lord of Heaven', Dykes
Anthem: 'Hark!Tthe Song of Jubilee', R. W. Robson,
Chorus: 'As The Hart Pants', Mendelssohn,
Hymn: 'A Mighty Fortress', Luther,
Anthem: 'Christ in His Garden', Tchaikovsky,
Hymn: 'For The Sake of Blood-Bought Freedom'
Chorus: 'Thanks Be To God' from Elijah, Mendelssohn,
Hymn: 'Stand Up! Stand Up For Jesus!', A Geibel,
Hymn: 'When I Survey The Wondrous Cross',
'God Save the King' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe meeting held by the World Evangelical Alliance was to uphold the doctrines of the Reformation, and to protest against the attempt of the Anglo-Catholics to undo its work.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1925/16),
Handbill (RAHE/6/1925/3)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/_Aq_Jys_A7y3R7
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/6/1925/3Great United Demonstration, The Reformation: A Crisis, and Call to Acton31 March 1925
RAHE/1/1925/16The Reformation - A Crisis and Call to Action31 March 1925
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
OibaifcvierairiovGreat United Demonstration - The Reformation: A Crisis and Call to Action1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/2026Joynson-Hicks; Sir; William (1865-1932); 1st Viscount Brentford; British Conservative politician
DS/UK/3009Knox; Edmund Arbuthnott (1847-1937); English Anglican Bishop
DS/UK/414London Sunday School Choir; 1871-; English choir
DS/UK/2221Brown; Allan (fl 1916-1950s); English organist and Professor of music
DS/UK/3752Thorpe; J. H. (fl 1920s); British Archdeacon
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