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Churches, 1836

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Discipline of the Established Church. To the Editor of the Australian

The Australian · Tuesday 5 January 1836 · page 3

Can you inform me why there was no Divine Service in Parramatta Church on the afternoon of, Christmas-day? I was passing a few days in that town, and…

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Church Missions to New Zealand. To the Editor of the Sydney Monitor

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 6 January 1836 · page 2

SIR.—I am, and have been for some years put a Subscriber to the "Church Missionary Society, and shall obliged by any of your readers informing me—how many Missionaries destined for New…

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The Irish Church

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 23 January 1836 · page 4

The last attention to a feasted Esquimaux who can swallow no more, is to lay him on his back, and to coil a long strip of blubber into his mouth, till it is quite…

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"Thoughts in a Church-yard."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 February 1836 · page 4

An! happy spot, how still it seems Where crowds of buried memories sleep; How quiet Nature o'er them dreams: Tis but our troubled thoughts that weep…

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Epitaph on Agnes, Wife of Leonard Darr, Esq., 1596. From a Brass Plate in the Old Church of St. Stephens' Coleman-street, previous to the Great Fire

The Australian · Tuesday 1 March 1836 · page 4

Our life is all in death. Time that ensueth Is but the death of Time that went before: Youth is the death of childhood—Age of Youth; Die once to God, and then thou die'st no more…

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Abstract of Government Gazette. (Wednesday, March 2, 1836. (CONTINUED) (Parish Boys may be put out Apprentices in the Sea Service)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Thursday 10 March 1836 · page 4

XXVI. And whereas the giving due encouragement to such of the youth of the United Kingdom as shall Voluntarily betake themselves to the sea service, and obliging others to do so who by reason…

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Colonial Politics. the Irish Church

The Colonist · Thursday 10 March 1836 · page 1

THE grand question, the question of questions in the mother-country, is the Irish Church question—the question relative to the present anomalous ecclesiastical state of Ireland. From the reign…

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Government Gazette. Wednesday, March 2, 1836 (CONTINUED.) (Parish Boys may be put out Apprentices in the Sea Service)

The Australian · Friday 11 March 1836 · page 4

XXVI, And whereas the giving due encouragement to such of the youth of the United Kingdom as shall volunfarily betake themselves to the sea service, and obliging other to do so who by reason…

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Colonial Politics. Colonial Church Establishments

The Colonist · Thursday 17 March 1836 · page 1

IN our last leading article we showed that the object and design of the civil establishment of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Ireland, as far at least as the British Government has been…

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Ceremony of Laying the Foundation Stone of a Catholic Chapel at Parramatta

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 19 March 1836 · page 2

On Thursday, St. Patrick's Day, the inhabitants of Parramatta witnessed a religious spectacle, the first of its kind in this Colony. The Right Reversed Dr. Polding, the…

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Ceremony of laying the Foundation Stone of a Catholic Chapel at Parramatta

The Australian · Tuesday 22 March 1836 · page 2

On Thursday, St. Patrick's Day, the inhabitants of Parramatta witnessed a religious spectacle, the first of its kind in this colony. The Right Reverend Dr. Polding…

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Appeal to the British Public, against the Priestly and Political Power of the WesMethodist Conference

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 23 March 1836 · page 4

Very few are aware if what Wesleyan [?]dism actually is. It has habert been looked upon, for the most part, as an extraordinary means employed by the…

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Original Correspondence. Roman Catholic Chapel, Parramatta. to the Editor of the Colonist

The Colonist · Thursday 24 March 1836 · page 4

ON Thursday last, (St. Patrick s, day) the Roman Catholic, Bishop, accompanied by several priests and attendants, laid the foundation stone of St. Patrick's Church in Parramatta. The…

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American Statistics. Protestant Church

The Colonist · Thursday 24 March 1836 · page 4

WE copy from Drs. Reed and Matheson's Visit to American Churches, the following interesting account of the four leading Protestant Religious Denominations in that country…

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English Extracts, O'connell's Mission. Frem Tait's Magazine for October, 1835

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 30 March 1836 · page 4

O'Connell"s first appearance on his memorable journey was at Manchester. He reached that city upon the evening of Wednesday, the 9th of September, and met the…

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Declaration of the Synod of Aberdeen in Favour of the Irish Church. Synod of Aberdeen October 13. (Abridged from the Aberdeen Observer.)

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 19 April 1836 · page 4

Mr. Robertson, as Convener of the Committee on the Irish Church, stated that it had been referred to the Committee to prepare it draft of a petition to…

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Literature and Science. REVIEW. The Ceremony of Blessing and Laying the Foundation Stone of a New Church. Translated from the Political: with A Preliminary Instruction

The Colonist · Thursday 21 April 1836 · page 6

WE inserted the Rev. Mr. Ullathorne's Preliminary Instruction in a former number, and we intimated our intention at the time to make a few remarks on the Pamphlet, of which it forms a…

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The Church

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 26 April 1836 · page 2

Without mixing ourselves up in that extraordinary affair which Mr. Hercule[?] Watt, an old inhabitant, has communicated to the public, wo cannot but notice…

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Religious Intelligence. the Ceremony of Blessing and Laying the Foundation-stone of the Roman Catholic Chapel at Parramatta

The Colonist · Thursday 28 April 1836 · page 6

SINCE the publication of our last number, in which we took the liberty to make a few remarks on the Rev. Mr. Ullathorne's pamphlet, descriptive of the ceremonies in use among the Roman…

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Religious Intelligence. Scots Church, Sydney

The Colonist · Thursday 5 May 1836 · page 7

AT a recent meeting of the Elders and Committee of Management of the Scots Church held to elect Trustees of of the Presbyterian Burying Ground, it was suggested, in the absence and without the…

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