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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Churches

Churches, 1938

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Methodist Chur[?] Wesley Celebration[?]

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 2

On Sunday next the service[?] ducted in Methodist Churches th[?] out the world will be of a [?] nature, in view of the Bi-[?]…

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Given Big Job at 84 Worth £20,000,000 And Earned It Honestly Methodist Lay-reader

Daily Examiner · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 13

Cable messages announcing that Joseph Rank has been appointed executant of Britain's plan to store wheal for the possibility of sudden war…

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Grafton Methodist Church Wesley Bi-centenary Services

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 4

Great interest is being taken in the preparations for Wesley Day, Tuesday, May 24. Good congregations have attended…

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South Grafton Church of England Ball

Daily Examiner · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 4

Special decorations, novelty dances and an elaborate supper will be some of the features of the Church of England ball to be held in the South…

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Religious Films Offer to Churches "For Replacing Sermons" Equal to Theatre Features Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 23 May 1938 · page 5

Religious films of a standard of art and production equal to theatre features will be offered to churches by the newly- formed Church Films…

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Coronation Ball in Aid of St. Luke's Parish

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 4

Although the inclement weather prevented a full attendance at the Coronation Ball, which was held at the Criterion Hall last night it failed to damp…

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Woolgoolga Methodist Church Harvest Festival

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 2

Harvest Festival service was celebrated in the Woolgoolga Methodist Church on Wednesday night. The Rev. A. E. Brawn was the preacher and…

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Wesley Day Clarence Celebrations Methodist Ministers Combine Weather Affects Attendance

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 6

Methodists in Grafton and South Grafton celebrated yesterday the centenary of John Wesley's conversion with addresses by the two…

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Destroyed by Fire Methodist Church Near Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 7

In the early hours of Monday morning, Mr. Claude Kesby, of Euroka, was awakened by hearing a horse pawing at a sheet of iron near his residence…

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Church Destroyed

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 2

The Methodist Church at Euroka, near Kempsey, was destroyed by fire last Monday morning. Mr. Claude Kesby was awakened in the early…

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Lawrence Church of England

Daily Examiner · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 4

The harvest thanksgiving arranged for Sunday and Monday nights next, at Lawrence Church of England is, owing to the inclemency of the weather…

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Methodist President's Daughter Killed

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 4

Miss Dorothy Barclay, principal of the Annesley Ladies' College, Bowral. was killed shortly before midnight on Wednesday when she was struck by a…

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Methodist Rally "Wesley's World And Ours" Bi- Centenary Celebrations Address by Rev. James Green

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 3

"Wesley's World and Ours," was the subject of "an illuminating address by the Rev. James Green, C.M.G., V.D., C.F., at the rally held in the Methodist…

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Welcome Home Social Evening Grafton Baptist Church

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 3

At the Grafton Baptist Church last Tuesday a social evening was tendered as a welcome home to Mr. and Mrs. L. Walsh and Mr. and Mrs. H. Collins…

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Country Church Burnt

Daily Examiner · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 4

Detective Wilson, of the Police Arson Squad, left Sydney on Wednesday to investigate the cause of a fire which severely damaged the Methodist Church…

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Church Humor the Office of Dog- Whipper

Daily Examiner · Monday 30 May 1938 · page 1

The keeping of order in church used to be entrusted to specially appointed officials, whose duty it was to awaken sleeping members of the congregation…

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Home Mission Meeting in the Methodist Church

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 4

At the Methodist Church, Grafton, on Monday night a very interesting lecture, entitled "In the Footsteps of Livingstone and Moffat," was delivered…

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Methodist Young Men's Club

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 4

The inaugural meeting of the Methodist Young Men's Club was held in the Methodist Hall, Grafton, on Tuesday, night, and began with a tea combined…

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Diocese of Grafton Ninth Synod, Third Session Revising The Church Law Sanctity of National Treaties? "Ruthless Bombing Of Open Cities" Presidential Address

Daily Examiner · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 6

There were present 32 clerical and 39 lay representatives when the proceedings were opened and the Administrator delivered the presidential…

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Methodist Church

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 3 June 1938 · page 2

On Sunday next the Rev[?] E. Wilkinson, of Bellingen, will exchange pulpits with Rev. A. E. Brawn, and will conduct services at Upper Orara at…

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