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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Churches

Churches, 1895

259 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 13

The New Hebrides Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 28 September 1895 · page 8

BY the mail just to hand advices were received that on August 19 the steam auxiliary ship Dayspring, built for the service of the New Hebrides…

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Further Outrages in Armenia Attack on a Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 30 September 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—Further Armenian outrages are reported from Antioch, a city of Asiatic Turkey. Some Mostem troops, who were…

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Minmi. Church Entertainment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 2 October 1895 · page 6

The Primitive Methodist Church members and choir gave their second free entertainment on Monday night. There was a very fair attendance, the…

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Mission Steamer John Williams

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 4 October 1895 · page 4

The mission steamer John Williams was floated into dock at Sydney yesterday for an overhaul. It was intended to send the John Williams on a cruise to New Zealand, but the late return of the ship from…

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District News. Burwood. Church Entertainment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 5 October 1895 · page 6

ON Thursday evening a splendid entertainment was given in the Primitive Methodist Church by the friends in connection with the Wesleyan Church, Hamilton, who rendered…

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Special Church Services. Thanksgiving for Rain

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 7 October 1895 · page 4

IN accordance with the Government proclamation, thanksgiving services for the recent rains and the consequent breaking up of the drought were held in all the churches…

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Thornton. Church Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1895 · page 6

THE members of the United Methodist Free Church at Thoraton celebrated their church anniversary last Sunday week, when two special services were…

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Picnics and Excursions. The Roman Catholic Schools

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 October 1895 · page 4

A SERIES of picnics and excursions took place yesterday, the principal one being the annual outing to Toronto of the children attending St. Mary's, Stockton, and Carrington Roman…

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Church Congress

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 October 1895 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The thirty-fifth meeting of the Church Congress began at Norwich yesterday, when, after on official reception by the Mayor…

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District News. Carrington. St. Thomas' Seamen's Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 12 October 1895 · page 7

This mission, which was the first of its kind started in the Newcastle district, having come into existence upwards of 21 years ago, is now making rapid strides under the…

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Y.m.c.a. Gospel Temperance Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 October 1895 · page 7

THE first public meeting of this mission was held in the association hall on Saturday evening. The chair was occupied by Mr. William Arnott, sen.,…

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Church Reference

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 October 1895 · page 5

At the Wesleyan Church last night the Rev. W. H. Beale made the subject of his discourse, "The Lessons of the Dean Case." The rev. gentleman took for his text the 21st…

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Church Use of the Telephone

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 October 1895 · page 3

THE Congregation of Bishops at Rome has at last decided, says the Neu[?] Freis Presse, to admit the telephone into the nunneries of Italy. A very…

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Burwood. Church Entertainment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 October 1895 · page 3

An entertainment was given in the Burwood P.M. Church on Monday evening by the choir and a number of local friends in aid of the church…

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Minmi. Church Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 October 1895 · page 3

The anniversary of the United Methodist Free Church was celebrated on Sunday by special services, conducted in the morning by the Rev…

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Wickham. Church Social

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 October 1895 · page 6

The parishioners of St. James' (Church of England) held their second social in the church schoolroom on Thursday evening, presided over by the incumbent, the Rev W…

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Burwood Wesleyan Church Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 October 1895 · page 7

THE anniversary services of the Burwood Wesleyan Methodists, conducted in the church last Sunday by the Revs. Messrs. Beale, Foggen, and Rickards, morning, afternoon,…

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Sacred Heart Church, Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 October 1895 · page 5

CONFIRMATION was administered in this church yesterday afternoon to over 100 children and eight adults by the Right Ray. Dr. Murray. The Bishop arrived at Hamilton the previous…

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The Mission Schooner Meda

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 October 1895 · page 4

The Wesleyan mission schooner Meda arrived at Sydney on Monday from a cruise among the islands. The voyage has been a trying one—nothing but hurricanes and gales being met with—but the little vessel…

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Newcastle Wesleyan Church. Spring Fair and Sale of Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 October 1895 · page 8

AT the Masonic Hall, Perkin-street, yesterday afternoon, a spring fair and sale of work was opened in aid of the Newcastle Wesleyan Church funds, which is to be…

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