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Churches, 1836

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Roman Catholic Orphans. To His Excellency Major-General Sir Richard Bourke, K.C.B., Governor of New South Wales, and the Honorable the Legislative Council, in Council assembled

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 11 August 1836 · page 2

This humble Petition of the Lay-Committee of the Catholic Church of St. Mary, in the name and on behalf of the Catholics of New South Wales, adopted at a General Meeting of the…

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Anno Sepiimo Gulielmi Quarti Regis. No. 3. By His Excellency Major General Sir Richard Bou ke, K.C.B. Captain-Genernland Governorin-Chief of the Territory of New South Wales end its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, with the Advice of the Legislative Council. An Act to promote the building of Churches and Chapels, and to provide for the maintenance of Ministers of Religion in New South Wales

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 August 1836 · page 4

WHEREAS, for the advancement of the Christian Religion, and the promotion of good morals in the colony of New Preamble. South Wales, it is expedient to…

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The Church of England

The Sydney Herald · Monday 22 August 1836 · page 3

Those sceptics who even yet doubt the loving kindness and pious veneration of His Majesty's present Government for the Church of England and her ministers, may, we think, now satisfy…

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Free Seats in Churches and Chapels

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 31 August 1836 · page 4

THE new Act for building churches and chape seems elegible. But the reservation of only one seat in six for the use of the poor without charge, appears to us…

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The Irish System of Education. The Bible, versus The Board—The Priest—and the Court of Chancery, or, the working of the new system of National Education, as exemplified in the history of the Ballyholey School, in the Parish of Raphoe, County of Donegal. By the Rev. W. D. Killen, minister of the Presbyterian Church, Raphoe.—Belfast, 1835. Continued

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 1 September 1836 · page 1

It will be necessary to insert here a number of extracts from the query sheet, as this document was the foundation of much subsequent litigation. Passing over the questions and answers which relate to…

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Colonial Politics. Churches and Schools in Van Di[?]men's Land

The Colonist · Thursday 8 September 1836 · page 1

WE have read with unmingled pleasure, in The Hobart Town Courier of the 12th ult., a lengthy but deeply interesting minute of His Excellency Lieutenant-Governor ARTHUR to the Legislative…

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The Church of Rome. to the Editor of the Colonist

The Colonist · Thursday 8 September 1836 · page 2

SIR,—I beg to offer an observation on the doctrine of the Romish Church, as detailed in the letter of free will. As two of the Evangelists were not Apostles, it follows that if the…

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Roman Catholic Infallibility

The Colonist · Thursday 15 September 1836 · page 3

We inserted in a late number, a letter from the Rev. J. M.'Encroe, Roman Catholic Chaplain of Sydney, on the subject of the re-baptism of Miss Reed, on her admission to the Convent. In a…

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Strange If True.—parramatta Church

The Australian · Friday 16 September 1836 · page 2

UNDER this head a slanderous paragraph appeared in the Gazette of yesterday, insinuating that the GOVERNOR left the Parramatta Church, because the BISHOP was to…

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Strange If True.—parramatta Church

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 17 September 1836 · page 2

UNDER this head a slanderous paragraph appeared in the GAZETTE of yesterday, in sinuating that the Governor left the Parramatta Church, because the Bishop…

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The Governor leaving Church before Sermon, &c., &c., &c

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 21 September 1836 · page 2

THE SYDNEY HERALD AND SYDNEY GAZETTE, both knowing that Governor Bourke will not prosecute them, however they may abuse him, take advantage of…

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Disgraceful Conduct of a Roman Catholic Priest. to the Editor of the Colonist. Windsor, September 19, 1836

The Colonist · Thursday 22 September 1836 · page 2

SIR,—The following circumstances having come under my observation, I am enabled to vouch for their authenticity. On Wednesday, the 14th instant, a man named Riley went to the Roman…

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Going to Church, &c

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 28 September 1836 · page 3

THE Gazette of Saturday attacks the principle we laid down as to the propriety of persons leaving the Church, when the preacher desecrates the pulpit by…

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St. James' Church

The Sydney Times · Saturday 8 October 1836 · page 2

As the organ of St. James' Church has been under repair, during the last three weeks the psalmody has been performed by the voices of the choir…

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Original Correspondence. on the Public Press Churches and Schools.. To the Editor of the Sydney Times

The Sydney Times · Saturday 8 October 1836 · page 3

SIR, If the proprietors and editors of papers in this Colony should all of them be in the mind of the Sydney Gazette and the…

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New Zealand Mission. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Thursday 20 October 1836 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Having reason to believe that the paragraph which appeared in your paper of Monday last, relative to certain charges preferred against one of the New Zealand Missionaries, has…

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Congregational Colonial Mission

The Colonist · Thursday 27 October 1836 · page 7

WE must frankly confess that we find no satisfactory excuse for the neglect of the religious wants of our colonies, with which the Churches of this country have in modern times been chargeable.-' 'We say, in…

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Religious Intelligence. the Church of Scotland. Whitehall, May 27, 1836

The Colonist · Thursday 27 October 1836 · page 7

THE Whitehall, Address of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, having been transmitted by Robert Montgomerie Lord; Belhaven, His Majesty's Commissioner, to the Right Honourable Lord John…

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Religious Intelligence. CHURCHES

The Colonist · Thursday 3 November 1836 · page 8

IT cannot but be gratifying to a mind impressed with the grand truths of the Christian religion, and, consequently, anxious for their promulgation to perceive any means in course of…

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Bishop Poulding and the Catholic Clergy

The Sydney Monitor · Monday 21 November 1836 · page 3

The Catholic Clergy of this Colony have seen,, that when our, own clergy. (we mean those of the Church of England; to whose communion, as the most liberal,…

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