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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Churches

Churches, 1888

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Roman Catholic Picnic to Tomago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 8

The Confraternity of the Holy Family and their friends will leave for Tomago by the steamers Ethel and Rose on Monday morning at 9.30, 10.30, and 11.30. A splendid…

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Wesleyan Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 March 1888 · page 6

The anniversary services in connection with the Sunday-school attached to Wesleyan church commenced on Sunday last. Sermons were preached in the morning, afternoon,…

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Primitive Methodist Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 April 1888 · page 5

In the Brown-street Primitive Methodist Church yesterday, the Rev. J. A. Foggon, who has ministered to the church of the last three years, preached a very earnest and…

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Primitive Methodist Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1888 · page 4

A TEA and public meeting in connection with the Primitive Methodist Church, Brown-street, were held last evening. A goodly number were present at the tea…

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Roman Catholic Picnic to Tomago

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1888 · page 4

The steamers Ethel, Rose, and Iona conveyed between 500 and 600 persons to Tomago yesterday, where the members, with their friends, of the Confraternity of the Holy…

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Model of St. Mary's R.c. Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 5

THERE is now on view at the rooms of the Stockton School of Arts a most beautiful piece of workmanship, which reflects great credit upon the gentleman who has…

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Vestry Meeting at St. Philip's Church, Hanbury

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 April 1888 · page 3

ON Tuesday evening the annual vestry meeting was held at the above church, Rev. A. Shaw in the chair. The business consisted of electing…

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District News. Wallsend. Church of England

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1888 · page 2

A MEETING of the parishioners of St. Luke's Wallsend, has held on Tuesday, evening, the 3rd inst. The Rev. W. To[?]is presided, and informed those present that the business…

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Zenana Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1888 · page 7

THE third quarterly meeting of the above Mission was held on Tuesday afternoon last, in the School of Arts hall. The principal business of the meeting was the receiving the…

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Stroud Church Matters

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1888 · page 5

THE Stroud correspondent of the Maitland Mercury states that affairs in that district in connection with the Church of England, are in a very promising condition. Last Sunday…

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Churches and Music Halls. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 April 1888 · page 3

SIR,—Grant me a small space in your valuable columns to call attention to what I consider a gross injustice perpetrated by the trustees of the Adamstown Primitive…

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Congregational Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 April 1888 · page 6

The anniversary of the Congregational Church was celebrated on Sunday last, April 22nd, when three services were held. In the morning the Rev. C. Waters preached a…

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Cablegrams London, Tuesday. Irish Catholic Nationalists and the Vatican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 3 May 1888 · page 5

THE Roman Catholics at Aldershot have formed a Home Rule League, and have decided to divert Peter's Pence to the funds of the league. At…

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Sydney-street Baptist Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 May 1888 · page 7

ON Wednesday evening, a very successful social tea-meeting was held in the above church. The Rev. Seth Jones occupied the…

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Lord Randolph Churchill on Local Option

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 11

ADDRESSING a crowded meeting lately in the North of England, Lord Randolph Churchill said: " I must give you my own ideas very briefly on the…

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Good Templarism and the Churches. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 May 1888 · page 6

SIR.—Permit me through the columns of your paper, to say a word in reference to some untruthful remarks made by by a clergyman, at the Synod that is now…

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Catholic Ireland and the Vatican

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1888 · page 5

The Pope's decree condemning the "Plan of Campaign" was to have been read in all the Roman Catholic chapels in Ireland last Sunday. In…

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Good Templary and the Church. to the Editor

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 May 1888 · page 3

SIR,—Seeing by your report of the Church of England Synod that a rev. gentleman stated Good Templary to be a source of loss of members to the…

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State and Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 May 1888 · page 5

Clement, the Metropolitan of Tirnova, has been deposed from his office on account of his open hostility to Prince Ferdinand…

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United Methodist Free Church, Cook's Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 May 1888 · page 5

THE members and friends of Free Methodism in the Newcastle Circuit held a most successful tea and public meeting in the above church on Tuesday evening last, the…

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