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Churches, 1909

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St. James's Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 October 1909 · page 2

Yesterday being Rosary Sunday, St. James's Church was crowded at the 8 o'clock mass, and a very large number of the congregation received holy communion, which evoked…

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Methodist Church Festival. Sunday School Anniversary

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 October 1909 · page 3

The celebrations of the 72nd anniversary of the West Maitland Methodist Sunday School. so successfully began on Sunday, when the singing of the children was a delightful feature of the…

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Presbyterian Sunday Schools Annual Examinations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 October 1909 · page 2

Throughout the State in Presbyterian homes great interest is taken in the results of the annual examinations. The work of valuing the papers is carried out by several ministers, but,…

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The Coronation Oath. a Catholic Protest

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 October 1909 · page 3

The Australian Catholic Congress, at the session at Hunter's Hill on Satur day afternoon, unanimously adopted re solutions in reference to the Coronation…

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Church Congress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 October 1909 · page 3

The Church Congress has been opened at Swansea. The chief subject to be discussed is that ol the threatened dis—establishment of the Anglican Church in Wales…

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Presbyterian

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 2

The congregation at North St. Leonard's has given a call to the Rev. A. Clark, of Bathurst, but on Sunday the Bathurst congregation decided to ask Mr. Clark to…

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Methodist

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 2

The Rev. E. G. Neil, who has been pushing on the work of the Foreign Mission in Samoa, is expected to arrive in Sydney on furlough next month…

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Roman Catholic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 2

The Rev. P. Dalton, S.J., an old pupil of St. Ignatius' College, Riverview, arrived from Ireland in the R.M.S. Ophir. He returns to join the professorial staff of his old college…

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Chinese Mission Prayer Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 4

On Wednesday evening, the quarterly prayer meeting, which is held in turn in the different churches in connection with the Maitland Chinese Mission, was held in the…

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St. Alban's Parish.—the Mortuary Chapel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 5

It has been arranged that the Mortuary Chapel. erected by the White family in the Church of England cemetery here be consecrated by the Bishop of Newcastle on…

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News of the Churches. Church of England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 October 1909 · page 2

A mong the passengers by the R.M.S. Ophir, which arrived at Sydney recently were the Venerable Archdencon Bartlett and his wife. The reverend gentlemen has been on a…

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Presbyterian

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 7

The congregation at North St. Leonard's has given a call to the Rev. A. Clark, of Bathurst, but on Sunday the Bathurst congregation decided to ask Mr. Clark to…

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Methodist

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 7

The Rev. E. G. Neil, who has been pushing on the work of the Foreign Mission in Samoa, is expected to arrive in Sydney on for lough next month…

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Roman Catholic

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 7

The Rev. P. Dalton, S.J., an old pupil of St. Ignatius College, Riverview, arrived from Ireland in the R.M.S. Ophir. He returns to join the professorial staff of his old college…

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Aborigines' Inland Mission

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 4

Mrs. Long, of the Aborigines' Inland Mission, writes to a friend in West Maitland from Paddington, Brisbane. Mr. and Mrs. Long have superintended the aborigines' section of a missionary…

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West Maitland Methodist Church. Sunday School Anniversary

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 4

The interior of the Methodist church Presented a pleasing sight on Sunday the occasion being the celebration of the 72nd anniversary. The Church was very tastefully…

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Presbyterian Sunday Schools. Annual Examinations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 6

Throughout the State in Presbyterian homes great interest is taken in the results of the annual examinations. The work of valuing the papers is carried out by several minister, but,…

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The Man, the Mission, and the Maid

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 6

When Hal Gilman got home from college he had left all such things as youth and folly behind, him. He was never more conscious of this than when, after…

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The Churches

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 4

The Rev. H. S. Woollcombe, M. A., of England, the delegate representing the Church of England Men's Society, will preach in St. Peter's, East Maitland, on Sunday evening at 7.30. When…

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Churches with Deficits

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1909 · page 9

There are, it may safely be said, always half a dozen churches in a town of any importance in America which have been built at an expanse far exceeding the amount in hand, and which…

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