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Southern Highlands · Churches

Churches, 1885

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Select Poetry. The Model Church

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 17 January 1885 · page 4

WELL wife, I've found the model church! I worshipped there to-day; It made me think of the good old times before my hairs were gray…

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From the Cricket to the Mission Field

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 31 January 1885 · page 4

IT will be remembered that the brothers Studd were two of the members of the English team of cricketers under the Hon. Ivo Bligh. The following extract from an…

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The Church of England's Wealth

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 February 1885 · page 4

THE wealth of the Church of England in worldly goods is just now receiving considerable attention, but speculation has not much upon which to base itself, for the reason…

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Primitive Methodist Band of Hope

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 25 February 1885 · page 1

THE above society met on Monday, and was fairly attended. The Rev. R. Jennings gave a short address. He remarked that the death of Mrs. Parker that day had cast quite a shadow…

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Evangelistic Mission

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 7 March 1885 · page 2

MR. G. WILLIAMS has fixed next week for holding a series of evangelistic services in Bowral. The committee representing the various local churches are making all…

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Presbyterian Assembly. Applications for Admission to the Ministry

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 March 1885 · page 2

AT the sitting of the Presbyterian Assembly in Sydney last Saturday the Clerk (Rev. James S. Laing) read the petitions of the Rev. W. H. Drewett, formerly a Wesleyan…

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The Maloga Aboriginal Mission. MR. G. Matthews in Bowral

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 March 1885 · page 2

AS is customary with Mr. Matthews, he visited Bowral on Monday, 2nd March, on his way from Sydney to the Maloga mission field. In the evening Mr. Matthews addressed about twenty-five…

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Church and Stage

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 11 March 1885 · page 1

EXTREMES meet much more frequently in real life than they do in fiction. The fictionist generally brings extremes together for the purpose of exciting our mirth by a…

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Primitive Methodist Church, Bundanoon

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 18 April 1885 · page 6

On Saturday last a new Primitive Methodist Church was opened at Bundanoon. At three o,clock in the afternoon the Rev. G. James of Goulburn conducted the opening…

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Blue Ribbon Gospel Mission

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 16 May 1885 · page 3

ATTENTION is directed to advertisement elsewhere announcing that Mr. Wales, evangelist, will conduct a missian under the auspices of the Blue Ribbon…

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Blue Ribbon Gospel mission

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 20 May 1885 · page 2

A MISSION under the auspices of the Blue Ribbon Gospel Array is now being conducted in Bowral. On Sunday afternoon and evening last Mr. Wales, a delegate from the…

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Blue Ribbon Gospel Mission

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 7

THE Blue Ribbon Gospel Mission, which commenced in the school of arts, Bowral, last Sunday, and was conducted by Mr. Wales, a delegate fron the army, closed on…

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Marriage of a Jew to a Romam Catholic

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 23 May 1885 · page 4

The S.M. Herald correspondent, "Stella," writing under date March 13, says:—Considerable interest has been roused in Catholic circles by the dispensation just granted by…

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Roman Catholic College at Manly

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 June 1885 · page 2

THE first purely ecclesiastical college in connection with the Roman Catholic Church in Australia is about to be crected on the site originally granted for an episcopal…

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Primitive Methodist Band of Hope

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting in connection with the Bowral Primitive Methodist Band of Hope, was held in the church on Monday evening last. The president, the Rev. B. Kenny, delivered an…

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Primitive Church Bazaar Fund

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 2

WE are informed that it has been decided to hold a bazaar some months hence in aid of the New Primitive Methodist Church and parsonage in Bowral. With a view a starting the fund at once a social…

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Church of England Temperance Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 1 August 1885 · page 2

THE monthly meeting of the Church of England Temporance Society was held last Tuesday evening in the committee room of the school of arts, Bowral. In the unavoidable absence of Rev. J. W…

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Presbyterian Church, Mittagong

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 August 1885 · page 2

The Presbyterians of Mittagong have just reason to be proud of the possession in which to conduct their religious services of so substantial and neat a building as will formally be opened to-morrow (Sunday)…

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Primitive Methodist Band of Hope

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 2

THE usual fortnightly meeting of the above society was held last Monday evening. Mr. S. Frost presided and delivered a suitable address on the evils of intemperance. A song, "He Knows,"…

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Church of England Temperance Society

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 29 August 1885 · page 2

THE monthly-meeting of the Bowral Church of Eng Temperance Society was held on Tuesday evening last in the school of arts, a large number of persons being present. The president opened the…

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