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Churches, 1920

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Methodists and Church Union. General Sympathy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 March 1920 · page 3

At the Methodist Conference in Sydney on Tuesday the Rev. W. H. Beale presented the report of the referenda of circuit quarterly meetings and district synods on the proposed…

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St. James' Parish Morpeth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 4

Services at St. James', Morpeth, on Sunday next will be at 8 and 11 a.m. and 7.15 p.m. At all Saints, Woodville, 11 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., and at St. John's, Hinton,…

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Methodist Minister's Death

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 4

The Rev. W. H. Williams, who for 54 years was a minister of the Methodist Church In Queensland and New South Wares, died at his residence in Strathfield…

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Ministerial Salaries. Recommendation to Methodist Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 6

At the Methodist Conference in Sydney, Mr. R. H. Nesbitt, convener of the Methodist Conference committee of investigation on the question of adequate ministered…

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Congregational Church. Pulpit Notes

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 March 1920 · page 3

At the evening service the pastor selected Philippians 3.13 as a bases for his address "This One Thing 1 Do." He remarked that throughout Paul's…

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Free Presbyterian Church

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1920 · page 4

Rev. W. McDonald, Moderator of the Free Presbyterian Assembly of Australia, left this week for Scotland for a six months holiday and to act as a delegate to the…

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Ministers' Stipends. Methodist Conference Decision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1920 · page 3

The Methodist Conference, sitting in Sydney, dealt yesterday with the question of ministerial stipends, which was brought forward by Mr. R. H, Nesbitt in the shape of…

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Methodist Missions. £80,000 Needed This Year

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1920 · page 9

Missionary activities and responsibilities were discussed at the public session of the Methodist Conference last evening. The financial statement, submitted by…

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Paderewski Resting. Patriotic Mission Ended. London, February 25

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1920 · page 10

Paderewski, who is resting in a beautiful house at Lake Geneva, told a "Daily Mail" correspondent that he had definitely retired from the concert platform. He will return…

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Methodists and Church Union. General Sympathy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1920 · page 8

At the Methodist Conference in Sydney on Tuesday the Rev. W. H. Beale presented the report of the referenda of circuit quarterly meetings and district synods on the proposed…

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St. Paul's Church. Annual Meeting

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1920 · page 9

The annual vestry meeting of St. Paul's Church, west Maitland, was field in the Parish Hall last week. The rector, Rev. [?] presided, and there was a…

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The Churches. Sunday Services

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 March 1920 · page 4

To-morrow being the second conference Sunday the pulpit of the West Maitland Methodist Church will be occupied by the Rev. F. J. Curwood, of Grafton, chairman…

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Methodist Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 March 1920 · page 4

The Methodist Conference was busy at the end of the week with the final reading of station, but the full lists have not yet been published. So far as information has been…

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Methodist Church

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 March 1920 · page 2

Harvest Festival services were conducted on Sunday last by the minister of the church, with excellent results. Dainty decorative effects were achieved by the…

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Industrial Democracy. Methodist Church Pronouncement. Reply to Labour Delegation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1920 · page 6

An official pronouncement in reply to the Labour delegation, which waited upon the methodist Conference in regard to the church and industrial democracy, was adopted by…

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Sport on Sunday. Decision of Methodist Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1920 · page 6

On a notice of motion by Rev. Dr. Carruthers, the Methodist Conference yesterday entered a protest against the growing tendency to secularise the Sabbath in the…

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Vicar on Church "Offerings."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 March 1920 · page 7

The Rev. E. E. J. Martin, vicar of Holy Trinity, South Heigham, Norwich, writes as follows in his parish magazine:— Last Sunday a bad wal[?]t was contributed…

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Presbyterian Church. Soldiers Welcomed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 6

The members of the congregation of the West Maitland Presbyterian Cauren who enlisted were tendered a social and welcome in the Parish Hall, Hunter-street, last…

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Methodist Conference. Social Purity. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 5

The Methodist Conference has appointed a social purity committee. The Rev. Robson paid a high tribute to the work of Sir Charles Mackellar on behalf of child life, orphans,…

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Orphanage Church Bazaar

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 March 1920 · page 2

A meeting of the ladies connected with the forthcoming bazaar in aid of the Orphanage church debt was held in the school hall during the week, and there was a large…

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