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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Churches

Churches, 1904

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Cafe Chantant. Parish Hall Entertainment

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1904 · page 5

A cafe chantant, and tableaux vivants representing a bright and novel entertainment, promoted by the Christ Church Women's Guild, was opened at the Parish…

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Thibetan Mission. Further Resistance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—A reconnaisance made by the military escort to Colonel Younghusband's Mission has disclosed the face that the…

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District News. Merewether. Methodist School Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 May 1904 · page 6

The anniversary services in connection with the Glebe Methodist Sabbath-school were continued on Tuesday evening in the School of Arts. Both tea and public…

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Charlestown. Tent Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 6

A successful United Tent Mission, conducted by Mr. W. Arnold, has just been concluded. The tent was brought from Dudley, and erected on a place of ground…

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Presbyterian Assembly. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 6 May 1904 · page 5

At to-day's session of the Presbyterian Assembly, Senator J. T. Walker, in submitting the report of the treasurership and finance committee, stated that the…

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Thibetan Mission. the Enemy Increases

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Friday.—The Thibetans who are guarding the Karo Pass, two and a half day's march from Gyantse, where the British mission is now…

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Maitland District Methodist Church Anniversary

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 May 1904 · page 6

A public meeting in connection with the anniversary of the West Maitland Methodist Church was held in the church on Monday evening. The Rev. B. J. Meek…

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Thibet Mission. Delay Dangerous

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.—The correspondent of "The Times" who is accompanying Colonel Younghusband's Mission to Thibet, states that with…

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A Lesson in Church Work

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 May 1904 · page 6

Twenty-five years ago, writes a correspondent, the Glebe, at Newcastle, consisted of a few humpies and straggling houses, but mostly bush or rather scrub, where…

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A Model Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 May 1904 · page 2

In preaching on "The Model Church" at the Kaighn Avenue M. E. Church, Camden, N.J., recently, the Rev. J. William Lee punctuated his discourse with many…

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Adamstown. Methodist Sunday School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 May 1904 · page 6

The anniversary services of the Methodist Sabbath-school were held yesterday. The morning service was conducted by Mr. John Thwaites, the afternoon by Mr…

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Thibet Mission. Despatch of Troops

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—A half battalion of Fusiliers at Darjeeling, in Bengal, and it half battalion of native infantry, with four 10-pounder guns,…

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District News. Teralba Methodist Sunday School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 May 1904 · page 6

A concert in aid of the Sunday-school of the Lay Methodist Church took place in the church, and was well attended. The proceeds, which will be devoted to…

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Junction. Lay Methodist Sabbath School

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 17 May 1904 · page 6

The anniversary services of the Lay Methodist Sabbath-school were held in the Melville-street Church on Sunday, and attracted large audiences at each service…

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Sydney Central Mission. Anniversary Demonstration. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 May 1904 · page 5

At the Centenary Hall to-night every available inch of sitting room was taken, when a demonstration was held to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the…

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Carrington. Church Social

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 May 1904 · page 6

A successful social was held in the School of Arts Hall on Wednesday evening in aid of the funds of the Roman Catholic Church. The hall was well filled, and…

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Fighting in Thibet. the Attack on the Mission

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 16

English files to hand bring detailed reports of the attack on the British Mission to Thibet, when the party, under Colonel Younghusband, and Brigadier-General…

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Bible Reading in Church

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 11

Canon Henson, writing in "The Contemporary Review," says he thinks "indiscriminate reading of the Bible in public is an extremely perilous proceeding." "In…

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Telephoning a Church. a Modern Marvel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1904 · page 11

This story of the telephone is a veritable romance of modern science. Some 15 months ago, one of the members of the Primitive Methodist Ashington Church,…

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Thibet Mission. British Camp Menaced

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1904 · page 5

LONDON, Monday.—A sharp engagement has taken place between the British and the Thibetans at Chinglo, two miles from Gyantse…

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