We regret to record the death of Dr. Guinness Rogers,
the well-known Congregationalist minister, which took place in his eighty-third year last Sunday. After ministries in Northum- berland and Lancashire be became pastor of the Grafton Square Congregational Church at Clapham, where his beat-remembered labours were accomplished during the last thirty-five years. In his early days he was a co-founder of the " British Anti-State Church Association," which afterwards became the Liberation Society. He always held that State-provided education should be secular, and that religion should be left to the Church and the home. This opinion of course estranged him from many Nonconformists. But no Nonconformist minister of our day has had a greater influence in public affairs as preacher, author, and politician than Dr. Guinness Rogers. We dislike some of his ideals as intensely as we admire others, but he was always a man of commanding ability and honesty. He was an intimate friend of Gladstone, who used often to turn to him to be instructed in Nonconformist feeling.
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