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Southern Highlands · Churches

Churches, 1894

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Local and District R. C. Church

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 15 September 1894 · page 4

Mass will be celebrated at the Convent on Sunday morning at' 9 o'clock, aud at St. Paul's at 11. The Right Rev. Dr. Higgins will administer…

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Religious Pars. Roman Catholic

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 26 September 1894 · page 2

It is a curious fact in connection with the diocese of Sydney that the priests either die very young—that is to say, under 30—or attain a good round age,…

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Roman Catholic Social

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 10 October 1894 · page 3

ON Monday night a social in all of the Roman Catholic Church took place in the Bowral School of Arts, arid judging from the attendance the building fund should be…

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Church of England Pipe Organ

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 2

A LARGELY attended meeting of the committee and friends was held on Wednesday afternoon in St. Jude's schoolroom. The object of the meeting was to…

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The Public Meeting.—union of the Churches

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 31 October 1894 · page 2

The public meeting—or "after-meeting" as the chairman familiarly called it —was held in the church, and was largely attended…

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Wesleyan Church Anniversary

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 31 October 1894 · page 2

ANNIVERSARY services in connection with the Wesleyan Church at Bowral were held on. Sunday and Monday last. The Rev. Josieph Beale of Sydney was the special…

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A Church Bequest

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 14 November 1894 · page 3

A man named William Goddaby Probert, committed suicide by hanging at Auckland on Saturday, at the inquest a verdict of temporary insanity was returned. Some…

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The Recent Disasters. Sermon by Mr. B. Short in the Presbyterian Church

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 21 November 1894 · page 2

MR. B. SHORT, who has just completed a successful mission in the Congregational Church, Devonshire-street, Sydney, extending over the two previous Sundays,…

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Local and District Bong Bong Church

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Wednesday 21 November 1894 · page 2

This pretty little church was most effectively and prettily decorated with beautiful evergreens and flowers on Sunday…

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High Church

The Scrutineer and Berrima District Press · Saturday 24 November 1894 · page 5

"Is the 'confessional' on the increase in the Church of England?" asks an English paper, in view of the fact that a Cornish vicar, on being summoned recently to give…

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Wesleyan Church. Goulburn District Meeting

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 28 November 1894 · page 2

THE district meeting opened at Goulburn on Wednesday morning last. Present, the Rev. E. J. Rodd (in the chair), Goulburn; and the Revs. W…

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Extraordinary Scene in a Church

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 28 November 1894 · page 4

AT the Parramatta Police Court on Monday, Edward Flood was charged with having, on the 18th instant, caused a disturbance in the Wesleyan Church, Rookwood…

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Church Innovation, Change, and Union

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Wednesday 5 December 1894 · page 2

SIR,—The church, like the world, is ever unrestful-ever changing. The question was asked some time ago in the Free Press if the "Amen" innovation in the…

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Demonstrative Religion in the Wesleyan Church of To-day

Bowral Free Press and Berrima District Intelligencer · Saturday 15 December 1894 · page 2

SIR,—By the above expression I mean "showy" religion; we have to guard against making our religion a matter of show. The "Amen" innovation, and "I will arise," at the commencement of the…

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