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Churches, 1906

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Anglican Mission in New Guinea. Notes and News From the Staff

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 11

The New Guinea boys and girls have crazes for certain amusements just as white children have. One craze will last a couple of months, or perhaps longer, and then it will…

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Methodist

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 6
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The Rev R. East is reported by "The Methodist" to be seriously ill, an operation being considered inevitable. The. Rev. Dr. Moulton, who now in…

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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 2

The annual meeting of the Supreme Court of this church occupied the whole of last week. The synod was opened by a sermon based on 1 Cor. xv., 58, by the retiring…

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Roman Catholic

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 6
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The members of the Sodality of Mary of Bathurst gave a memorable farewell to the Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Bathurst At St. Stanislaus'…

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Total Abstinence Mission

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 7

Mr. C. H. Poole, M.H.R., of New Zealand, continued his total abstinence mission under the auspices of the Hunter River District Branch of the Independent Order of Good…

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Local & [?] General [?] [?] [?] Church[?] [?]

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 2

[?] England:—[?]Alban's 7.30 Andrew[?] 10.30 a.m. [?] 7 30 p.m. Creek [?] 130 a.m. (H.C.) S. Pr[?] 3 p.m. S. Luke's Spring…

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Lord Randolph Churchill's Biography

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 9

The publication of Mr. Winston Churchill's) life of his father is one of the events of the week. If we had not been in the throws of a general election the book would have been…

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News of the Churches. Church of England

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 6

Bishop Stretch, Dean of Newcastle, is enjoying a short holiday on the Blue Mountains. Last Sunday he delighted the visitors at Katoomba, by preaching twice in St…

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News of the Churches. Church of England. [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 2

Bishop Stretch, Dean of Newcastle, is enjoying a short holiday on the Blue Mountains. Last Sunday he delighted the visitors at Katoomba, by preaching twice in St…

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Free Church Council

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

Dr. R. F. Horton, president of the National Council of the Evangelical Free Churches, gave a reception at the Memorial-hall, Faringdon-street, to a number of missionaries…

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Glimpses of English Church Life Bell-ringers and Their Beer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 February 1906 · page 2

In bygone times the laws of the belfry were framed in such a manner as to be a ready means of obtaining money is fines to be spent in ale. There appears to have been…

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The Anglican Eisropric

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 February 1906 · page 4

While the election of a bishop to administer the affairs of the Diocese of Newcastle is a responsibility which rests upon the clerical and lay representatives of the churches of the…

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Church Inventories

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 February 1906 · page 3

The authorities in France are continuing to take inventories of the property of the churches. Excited Crowds frequently offer them opposition…

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Presbyterian

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 6
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Rev. A. S. McCook, B.A. of West Maitland, and Rev. A. Thain Anderson. M. A., of Hamilton, have been away, on, annual holiday during the past month. The name of…

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Methodist

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 6
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Out of sixteen candidates for the New South Wales ministry six obtained a recommendation to the conference. The Rev. A. J. Small arrived in Sydney…

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The Anglican Bishopric

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 4

While the election of a bishop to administer the Diocese of the Diocese of Newcastle is a responsibility which vests upon the clerical and lay representatives of the churches of the…

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