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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Churches

Churches, 1884

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A Church Scandal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 31 March 1884 · page 4

WE Melbourne World are informed that a disturbance of a disgraceful character took place on Tuesday at the Brunswick Baptish Church, resulting in blows being exchanged…

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Catholic Information

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 April 1884 · page 4

LATE statistics of the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain show, according to the Monitor, that there are at present thirty-eight Catholic Peers in…

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St. John's Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1884 · page 2

A meeting of St. John's C.E. Parochial Council was held on Tuesday evening in the School-room. The Rev. F. D. Bode presided. Mr. H. B. Cotton was nominated…

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Easter Vestry Meetings. Christ Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1884 · page 2

AT Christ Church Parsonage, the meeting was presided over by the Rev. Canon Selwyn. Mr. Parnell was elected trustees'…

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Church of England Easter Meetings. St. Mary's, West Maitland

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1884 · page 3

THE following gentlemen were elected members of the Parochial Council for the ensuing twelve months:—Messrs. John Sawyer, A. C. M. Bowman, G. T. Ferris, G…

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Mr. Booth's Gospel Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—Mr. R. T. Booth commenced a Gospel Temperance Mission at the Exhibition Building yesterday. About 6000 persons were present…

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Twenty Years' in the Wesleyan Methodist Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 7 May 1884 · page 4

LAST evening Mr. John Osborne, late minister of the Wesleyan denomination, delivered an excellent and interesting lecture in the Protestant Hall, Newcastle,…

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Mr. R. T. Booth's Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 8 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—At Mr. R. T. Booth's temperance mission meeting yesterday, 507 took the pledge, and 1800 the Blue Ribbon. The Hon. Jno. McIntosh was…

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Wood's Healing Mission in Adelaide. the Reaction

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 May 1884 · page 6

THE "boom" created by Wood's healing mission in Adelaide is rapidly subsiding, and a large number of the alleged cures are now proved to be frauds. A woman was…

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Mr. Booth's Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday.—At Mr. Booth's gospel temperance meeting held in the Exhibition Building to night, Bishop Barry occupied the chair and delivered an interesting…

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Mr. Booth's Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 14 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—6000 persons attended Mr. Booth's temperance lecture yesterday. Bishop Barry occupied the chair. Four hundred and sixty-seven…

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Primitive Methodist Church, Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1884 · page 3

THE anniversary tea meeting in connection with this church was held on Monday last. The attendance was good. The tables, which were loaded with the choicest…

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Wesleyan Church, Burwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 15 May 1884 · page 3

A TEA and public meeting, in connection with the anniversary of the Sabbath School of the above church, took place on Tuesday evening last, and was a most pleasing success. Both meetings were largely…

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Primitive Methodist Missions

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 19 May 1884 · page 3

ON Thursday evening the annual missionary meeting was held in Brown-street church, under the presidency of Mr. R. Hall. Appropriate addresses were given by the Chairman. Revs. J. W. Leadley, E. M…

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The Gospel Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 21 May 1884 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Gospel Temperance Mission returns to date show the number of pledges taken to have been 5523, and Blue Ribbons 16,385…

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Original Correspondence. Mr. John Osborne's Lecture on "Twenty Years in the Methodist Church." To the Editor of the Herald and Advocate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 May 1884 · page 4

SIR,—Several intelligent and highly respectable citizens of Newcastle, attendants and non-attendants of the Wesleyan Church, have urged that it is due…

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Primitive Methodist Church, Burwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 June 1884 · page 6

ONE of the most successful tea and public meetings ever held in Burwood took place on Tuesday evening last, under the auspices of tine above Church. The occasion wan the commemoration of the fourth…

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Church Bazaar at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 June 1884 · page 3

THE bazaar in connection with St. Peter's Church of England Hamilton, commenced in Williams' Assembly Rooms, at 4 o'clock, on Friday afternoon. The display of…

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The Blue Ribbon Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 27 June 1884 · page 3

MRS. E. M. E. BROWNE, the lady evangelist, and Vice-president of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Army, is to visit Newcastle and conduct an eight days' mission, commencing…

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Blue Ribbon Gospel Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 June 1884 · page 3

THE above mission, conducted by Mrs. E. M. E. Browne, lady Evangelist and Vice-president of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Army, commenced yesterday afternoon, at 3…

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