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ALLON, HENRY (1818-1892)

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ALLON, See also:HENRY (1818-1892) , See also:English See also:Nonconformist divine, was See also:born on the 13th of See also:October 1818 at Welton near See also:Hull in See also:Yorkshire. Under Methodist See also:influence he decided to enter the See also:ministry, but, developing Congregational ideas, was trained at See also:Cheshunt See also:College. In 1844 he beeame co-pastor with the Rev. See also:Thomas See also:Lewis of See also:Union See also:Chapel,.See also:Islington. In 1852, 011 the See also:death of Lewis, Allon became See also:sole pastor, and this position he See also:heel with increasing influence till his death in 1892. Union Chapelf originally founded by evangelical members of the See also:Church of See also:England and Nonconformists acting in See also:harmony, became during Allon's co-pastorate definitely Congregational in principle and fellowship, and exercised an ever-expanding influence. His See also:chief service to See also:Nonconformity was in connexion with the improvement of congregational See also:worship, and especially the service of praise. In 1852 Dr. H. J. Gauntlett became organist at Union Chapel and conductor of a psalmody class. To meet the wants of this class, Allon published the See also:original edition of his well-known Congregational Psalmist.

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hymns, chants and anthems was used in hundreds of churches throughout England. In 186o Allon began to write, at first chiefly for the Patriot, then under the editorship of T. C. Turbeville. In 1864, at the See also:age of See also:forty-five, he was elected chairman of the Congregational Union, and in 1866 he under-took the editorship of the See also:British Quarterly See also:Review with H. R. See also:Reynolds, the See also:principal of Cheshunt. In 1877 he became sole editor, and in that capacity came into See also:touch with such men as W. E. See also:Gladstone, See also:Matthew See also:Arnold, F. D. See also:Maurice and See also:Dean See also:Stanley.

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magazine was discontinued in 1886. In 1871 he received the degree of D.D. from the university of Yale, U.S.A. In 1894 the See also:congregation at Islington decided to erect new buildings. The church, which was built at a cost of £50,000, was specially adapted for congregational worship and was mentioned by an architectural See also:journal as one of the See also:hundred remarkable buildings of the See also:century. The church had in its various departments about 30o teachers in See also:charge of more than 3000 See also:children, and was in its organization one of the earliest instances of the type known as the institutional church. In 1881, on the occasion of the See also:jubilee of the Congregational Union of England and See also:Wales, Allon was again elected chairman. In See also:March 1892 he died suddenly from See also:heart failure. His books were A Memoir of See also:James See also:Sherman (1863); the Sermons of Thomas See also:Binney, with a See also:biographical and See also:critical See also:sketch (1869); The See also:Vision of See also:God and other sermons (1876); The Indwelling See also:Christ (1892). Allon was a See also:man of See also:sound See also:judgment, strong will, See also:great moral courage and See also:personal kindness. His acquaintance with literature was wide, his own See also:style lucid and decisive. In social and See also:political affairs he was a convinced individualist. Both as See also:leader of Union Chapel and in denominational affairs his courage and discretion, his See also:simple faith, combined with a broad-minded sympathy with the intellectual movements of the See also:time, made his ministry a widespread influence for See also:good.

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