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Binney was fully aware of the momentous changes which seemed to enfold the globe in 1848 and his Chairman's address was explicit enough: 'revolutions are convulsing the world: and they are doing so partly through the medium of ideas consecrated by us and, it must be confessed, that if our ideas be right, or, whether right or wrong, if they should predominate, our mission is, and would seem to be, revolutionary'.6 With such a gloss as this, his announcement that there was 'a work to do upon the thinking. Active, in?uential classes - classes which fill neither courts nor cottages, but which, gathered into cities, and consisting of several gradations there, are the modern movers and moulders of the world', was a heady one.7 It explained without in any way excusmg what seemed to be a cardinal fact about the Congregational churches: their middle-classness. It also committed them to the restlessness characteristic of Victorian Christians whose glory as well as whose weakness it was that their faith was more often a seeking than a resting one.
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