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Churches, 1900

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The Roman Catholic Congress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 3
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The morning question yesterday was devoted to the reading of papers connected with Church history. In the evening his Eminence Cardinal [?] reviewed the proceedings and this address…

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The Trouble in China. Answers to the Russian Note. Sensational Rumours. Barbarities to Mission Aries. London, Sept. 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 3

Great Britain in replying to the Russian Note suggesting that the A[?] should now withdraw from Peking f[?]mly retuses to withdraw until a [?] settlement with china is arranged…

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Church Services. Sunday. SEPTEMBER 16

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 2

CHURCH of England: St. Alban's, M., 10.30 a.m.; E., 7.30 p.m. St. Andrew's, Kayuga, 3 p.m. (Collection for Curate's Fund). St. Mark's, Aberdeen, Ante-Communion and…

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Sleepers in Church

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 1
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

In 1736 the churchwardens of Prestwick, near Manchester, resolved "That thirteen shillings a year be given to George Grimshaw, of RoodenJane, For ye time being and a new a now coat (not…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 September 1900 · page 11

Father Maguire, of the Redemptionist order, and formerly of Waratah, died of consumption at Ballarat on Tuesday. A service of thanksgiving for the annexation of…

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The Roman Catholic Congress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 September 1900 · page 2

In connection with the Congress a requi[?] High [?] was celebrated in St. [?] Cathe[?] on Saturday for these who have fallen victims to [?]…

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The Bellenden Ker Aboriginal Mission

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 September 1900 · page 4

The following extracts from a letter written by Deacmess Ethel Colyer a missionary at Bellenden Ker to her father the Rec. W.K. Colyer of Went Maitland will be read with interest. Deaconess…

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A Roman Catholic on Moody

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 September 1900 · page 5

In this spirit therefore, of one who loves to see a human soul on fire with zeal for Good a Catholic can read the lite of Dwight L. Moody says the Catholic World and be moved…

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The Bellenden Ker Aboriginal Mission

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 12

The following extracts from a letter written by Deaconess Ethel Colyer, a missionary at Bellenden Ker, to her father, the Rev. W. K. Colyer, of West Maitland, will be read with interest. Deaconess…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 September 1900 · page 7

The Right Rev. Bishop Stretch, D.D., Dean of Newcastle, has been appointed Church of England chaplain to the Hospital for Insane, Newcastle, vice the Rev. Charles Bice…

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LOCAL & General News. Church Services. Sunday, September 30

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

CHURCH of England: St. Alban's, 7.30 a m. (E.C.); M., 10.30 a m.; E., 7.30 p.m. Limestone, 11 a.m. (H.C.) St. Luke's, Spring Creek. 2.45 p.m. Holy Trinity, Muscle…

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Church Intelligence

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 6

Speaking at Westmead on Sunday, the Cardinal justified Archbishop Redwood's recent utterances. Dean O'Connor, of Armidale, has been raised to the dignity of a prelate of the household of the…

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Wesleyan Church Anniversary

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 29 September 1900 · page 2

The anniversary of be local Wesleyan Methodist Church was celebrated on Sunday and Monday last, by special anniversary services in the church on Sunday, and by a…

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Tommy Atkins at Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 October 1900 · page 5

In the course of a topical article in the August Quiver on the subject of "Tommy Atkins at Church, the another (an Ex-army chaplain) recalls some amusing ancedetes of…

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St. Philip's Church. the Centenary Celebrations (Herald)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 October 1900 · page 3

Only one church in the whole of Sydney has had a continuous existences of a century and even that one has not during the whole of that time had a permanent abiding place. the church is st…

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Consecration of Churches at Merriwa and Cassilis

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 October 1900 · page 4

An interesting ceremony was recently performed by the Lord Bishop of Newcastle in consecrating the lately erected church of Holy Trinity, Merriwa. The new building, which takes the place of the old…

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The Mission of Mr. Oatts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 2

A correspondent writes us "That the mission of Mr. Oatts, who will conduct meeting in the school of Arts until Friday evening, in not so well known as it should be…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney a Church [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 October 1900 · page 3

The congregational church at K. [?] was completely destroyed by file about 6'clock the [?] The building which is of [?] was situated a mile and a half from the [?]…

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