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Illawarra · Churches

Churches, 1897

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Church Note

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 19 June 1897 · page 2

Reference will be made to the Record Reign in the local church to-morrow…

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Service at Wesleyan Church. (Contributed.)

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 2

ON Sunday night last a large and representative audience assembled in the above Church, to hear a discou[?]se by the Rev. J. W. Moore, in celebration of the Record…

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Record Reign Celebrations. Reference in the Churches. Congregational

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 22 June 1897 · page 2

At the Congregational Church in the morning the Rev. E. T. Miles took for his text—" He hath not dealt be with any nation." Mr. Miles said in tens of…

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Congregational Church, Gerringong. Annual Tea and Public Meeting

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 17 July 1897 · page 2

THE convivial side of our denominational gatherings is not the least interesting of them. For is it not here that we meet in freest intercourse our friends, count each…

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The Congregational Church. the 40Th Anniversary

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 14 August 1897 · page 2

At the Town Hall on Wednesday evening, the 40th anniversary of the Wollongong Congregational Church was celebrated very successfully by a tea and…

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St. Francis Xavier's Church

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 17 August 1897 · page 2

Sunday last being the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Vergin Mary, the day was observed with the utmost solemnity at St. Francis Xavier's Church,…

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Mr. Fairbairn's Mission

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1897 · page 4

MR. R. J. Fairbairn, representing the English Wholesale Co operative Society, accompanied by Mr. Meares, manager of the South Coast Company, visited Milton…

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Dapto Presbyterian Church. Annual Tea-meeting

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 2

The annual tea-meeting in connection with the Dapto Presbyterin Church was held at the Agriculture Hall on Wednesday evening, and was in every was a most…

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The English Reformation and the Present Condition of the Church of England

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last Mr. Chas. I. K. Uhr, Secretary of the Church of England Association of New South Wales, lectured in the Kiama Church of England Sunday…

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Those Church Point Gates

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 11 September 1897 · page 2

MR. SEFTON inform use that the gates leading on to Church Point are now left open both night and day. It seems that those in authority—and rightly so—locked…

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Evangelistic Mission

Illawarra Mercury · Tuesday 14 September 1897 · page 2

The first of a series of meetings to be held throughout the present weak under the auspices of the Wollongong Evangelistic Union took place at the Town Hall last…

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Evangelistic Mission

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 16 September 1897 · page 3

The evangel[?]tic me tings conducted by Rev. Dillon and W. H. Da[?]continue to be largely attended and apparently greatly appreciated. Mr. Dillon is an [?]que[?]t…

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Miss M'Lean and the Mission Field

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1897 · page 2

Miss Mary M'Lean superintendent of the [?]resbyterra Zen[?] Mission at Madras, and the representative of the New South Wales Women's Missionary Association,…

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Church of England, Jamberoo

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 21 September 1897 · page 2

WE are indebted to a Jamberoo correspondent for the following:— The "Village Tree" in connection with the above Church, held on last Wednesday…

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Mission Work in India

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 2

On Thursday evening there was a fair attendance at the Presbyterian Church to hear an address by Miss Mary M'Lean on "Mission Work in lndia." Rev. A…

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Church Memoranda for Sunday. Church of England

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 25 September 1897 · page 2

Wollongong, 8 a.m. (H.C.), 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Rev. F. Elder. American Crook, 8 p.m., Rev. F. Elder. CONGREGATIONAL…

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Sunday School Picnic. St. Paul's Church, Shellharbor

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Tuesday 28 September 1897 · page 2

THE annual picnic in connection with the above was held on the beach on Saturday last, having been postponed from Wednesday in consequence of the inclement weather,…

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Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Thursday 30 September 1897 · page 3

A VERY large attendance of young folk and their progenitors and friends assembled at the Church Point yesterday. where the annual picnic of the Kiama Presbyterian…

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Wesleyan Church Choir

The Kiama Independent, and Shoalhaven Advertiser · Saturday 2 October 1897 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last the members of the above chair met for weekly practice; and hold a general meeting during the evening for recorganising the choir,…

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Church Note

Illawarra Mercury · Saturday 9 October 1897 · page 2

From to-morrow evening the services will commence at 7.30…

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