Church Association was founded in 1865. The Monthly Intelligencer was first published in 1867.

Objects of the Association

To Uphold the Doctrines, Principles, and Order of the United Church of England and Ireland, and to counteract the efforts now being made to pervert her teaching on essential points of the Christian faith, or assimilate her Services to those of the Church of Rome, and further to encourage concerted action for the advancement and progress of spiritual Religion.

The details are taken from the bound copies of the journal.

Volume 1 - March 1867 to January 1868

Volume 2 - March 1868 to February 1869

Volume 3 - March 1869 to February 1870

Volume 4 - March 1870 to February 1871

Volume 5 - March 1871 to February 1872

Volume 6 - March 1872 to February 1873

Volume 7 - March 1873 to December 1873

Volume 8 - January to December 1874

Volume 9 - January to December 1875

Volume 10 - January to December 1876

Volume 11 - January to December 1877

Volume 12 - January to December 1878

Volume 13 - January to December 1879

Volume 14 - January to December 1880

Volume 15 - January to December 1881

Volume 16 - January to December 1882

Volume 17 - January to December 1883

Two well-known names appear frequently in the early pages of the 'Intelligencer', those of the Revd J C Ryle and the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury