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Hunter Valley · Churches

Churches, 1898

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2

The missionaries killed in China, recently, were Mr. and Mrs. Cain, Misses Archer, Hatfield, and Schink. Three Chinese from the Foster street Mission…

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Church of England. St. Andrew's Chuch, Bridgman

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 May 1898 · page 2

A VERT successful meeting of parishionera of the above church was held on April 30th, ulto., to take steps to enlarge the present structure, which has…

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St. Clement's Church, Gosforth. Presentation to Mr. O. DENNY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 May 1898 · page 5

On Sunday afternoon this pretty little church was filled with a large congregation, to bid farewell to their lay-reader, Mr. O. T. C. Denny, and to present him with a testimonial on the occasion of…

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St. Mary's Parish. Sale of Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 May 1898 · page 6

Last evening, a sale of work, arranged by the members of the Gleaners' Union—a band of young ladies organised to assist the mission cause—assisted by many kind friends in the parish, was opened in…

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St. Mary's Parish—Sale of Work

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 3

On Tuesday evening, n sale of work, arranged by members of the Gleaners Union—a band of young ladies organised to assist the mission cause—assisted by many kind friends in the parish, was opened in…

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S. Alban's Church Club

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2

WE are glad to notice the movement for the revival of a club in connection with S. Alban's Church. This Club existed, some year ago but was somehow…

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Statuary in Church

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 3

The Dean of Manchester has been speaking very plainly to the small body of narrow-minded individuals who have been expostulating against the use of…

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Church of England Pupils Attending Convent Schools. (To the Editor of the Times.)

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2

SIR,—I noticed in your last issue a very amusing letter written by Miss Long, of Murrurundi, under the above heading. Well, Sir, after perusing it for some time I…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 2

The death ia announced of the. Rev. D. W. Macfie, a veteran Presbyterian cleric. A clerical visitor from Now Zealand has been struck by the little respect shown to the Lord's Day…

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New Church Schoolroom at Woodville

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 16

On Wednesday evening, 1lth inst., a gathering of the members of the congregation of & 1 Saints', Woodville, and their friends, enjoyed a social tea and a musical and literary entertainment, in…

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Raising Church Funds. a New System Utilised at Samoa

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 May 1898 · page 5

FROM Samoa a new system of raising church funds is reported. Once a week the chiefs ordered all the people, men and women, boys and girls, to…

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Poetry. the Country Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 May 1898 · page 3

There were no cushioned paws therein, No finely fresoed ceiling—These teach no plainer sin is sin, Nor deeper Christian feeling;…

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St. Peters Church, East Maitland. Memorial Service to Mr. Gladstone

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 May 1898 · page 2

The evensong at St. Peter's Church, East Maitland, last Sunday evening, was partly of an in memoriam character. The lectern was draped in black, and the funeral hymns—"When our head…

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Raising Church Funds. a New System Utilised at Samoa

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1898 · page 4

FROM Samoa a new system of raising church funds is reported Once a [?]eek the chiefs ordered all the people, men and women, boys and girls, to play the…

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Church of England. Annual Meeting of Broke Parishioners

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 May 1898 · page 4

THE annual meeting of members of the Church of England residing in Broke district was held in St. Andrew's Church on Saturday, last. The…

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Mission Services

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 May 1898 · page 2

THE Rev. W. Brown is conducting a series of mission services in Kayuga Wesleyan Church each evening during the present week…

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Anglican Church Opinion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 2

We may be dcomed idealists and sentimentalist' We care very little, for we know the sterling value sentiment and idealism. we are deeply concerned lest…

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S. Alban's Church Club

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 2

THE meeting convened by the Rev. A. H. Garnsey, as Secretary of the Parochial Council, at St. Alban's Schoolroom, on Wednesday night last, for the…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 May 1898 · page 3

The Very Rev. H. M. Finnegan, who had been parish priest at Gundagai for over 20 years, died on Saturday afternoon. At Bingara on Friday, about noon, the…

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Attack on a Mission Station

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 May 1898 · page 5

Reports from Hongkong state that the America mission at Tunchau, in China, has been burned by the mob. It is believed that the missionaries succeeded in escaping…

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