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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Churches

Churches, 1886

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Presbyterian General Assembly

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 18 March 1886 · page 5

The Assembly has adopted an address of welcome to the Governor…

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Anglican Bishop

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 5

The Bishop of Sydney arrived from New Zealand yesterday…

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Presbyterian Address of Loyalty

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 23 March 1886 · page 5

A deputation from the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales waited upon the Governor to-day, and presented him with…

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Laying of the Corner-stones of the Primitive Methodist Church, Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 30 March 1886 · page 3

FOR some time past the Primitive Methodists have been holding Sunday services in the Temperance Hall, Stockton, and such has been the attendance…

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Opening of St. Silas' Church of England, Wyong

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 8

THE above church was formally opened for Divine service on Wednesday, 24th March, at 3 o'clock p.m. The church is a neat weatherboard building,…

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Church Disestablishment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 2 April 1886 · page 5

Mr. Cameron's motion in the House of Commons for the disestablishment of the Church of Scotland has been rejected by a large majority…

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Catholic Church for Rookwood

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

Cardinal Moran laid the corner-stone of a new church at Rookwood. He spoke strongly on the subject of State schools and religious instruction…

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Primitive Methodist Church, Newcastle. Farewell Tea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

A FAREWELL tea was given to the Revs. J. W. Leadley and E. H. B. Pritchard in the school of the above church last evenings; the Rev. J. A. Foggon presiding. The tables…

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Sacrilege at Bullock Island. Entering St. Thomas's Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 2

LATE on Saturday night or on Sunday morning, some scoundrel entered, St. Thomas's Church, Bullock Island, by the window, and lifting the cloth off…

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PARIS, Saturday. Church and Politics

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 6 April 1886 · page 5

The Archbishop of Paris has appealed to the French Republic to refrain from harassing religion…

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The Presbyterian Churches

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 6

A VERY numerously attended public meeting was held in the hall of the Young Men's Christian Association building on Tuesday evening, in Sydney,…

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Lord Randolph Churchill's Troubles. Quarrel at the Carlton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 9 April 1886 · page 2

WE learn that the published accounts of the meeting of the Conservative party at the Carlton Club fail to convey any adequate notion of the…

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Lord Randolph Churchill in Ulster

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 10 April 1886 · page 10

THE Times says that Lord Randolph Churchill's reception in Ulster is significant evidence of a spirit with which English statesmen and Irish…

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The Bishop of Madagascar. Address at St. John's Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 12 April 1886 · page 7

THE Bishop of Madagascar preached at the above church yesterday morning in aid of the Madagascar mission. The text was taken from Luke x., v…

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Women in the Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 16 April 1886 · page 2

FOR the first time, it is believed, in the Church of England, the Bishop of London recently ordained three ladies as deaconesses in St. Michael's Church,…

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Catholic Synod

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1886 · page 5

A synod of the Roman Catholic clergy in the Sydney archdiocese has been summoned for May 6th…

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Minmi. Templary Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1886 · page 8

Mr. R. Crabb, G.L.V.D., of the I.O.G.T., New South Wales, gave his first lecture here in Mr. Sharp's Hall, on Thursday evening, to a large and attentive audience…

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Wesleyan Church, Tyrell-st. Sunday-school Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1886 · page 5

THE annual meeting in connection with the above was held last evening in the church Mr. William Arnott was in the chair. The school children occupied the platform, and…

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Easter Services at Christ Church Pro-cathedral

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 April 1886 · page 4

THE Easter services of the Pro-Cathedral were celebrated this year with more than the usual ceremony. His Lordship the Bishop of the Diocese preached sermons…

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Easter Meetings. Christ Church Parish

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 28 April 1886 · page 5

LAST evening the annual meeting of parishioners to elect churchwardens, parochial council, and representatives to synod was held at the parsonage. The meeting was…

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