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Churches, 1839

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Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 18 February 1839 · page 2

To what mean and disgraceful artifices will not liberalism lend itself -- to what downright dishonesty will not its votaries descend? We find that a few days after…

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Original Correspondence. to the Presbyterian Inhabitants of New South Wales. Letter Ii

The Colonist · Saturday 23 February 1839 · page 2

PRESBYTERIAN BRETHREN.-In my last letter I called your special attention to the fact, which, I think, I then established, That the Presbyterian Church which we have in this colony, (for I now…

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Select Poetry. the Church Bells

The Colonist · Saturday 23 February 1839 · page 4

I HEARD the chime of the merry bell On the breeze of the forest flowing; And as I listen'd to each full swell, I thought on the hearts that were glowing…

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Church and State. New Zealand

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 25 February 1839 · page 2

IN our last week's number we promised to offer some observations in reference to New Zealand. We were very much interested in the account given of the Bishop's visit…

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Church and State. New Zealand

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 4 March 1839 · page 2

WE said in our last number in allusion to the geographical position of New Zealand, that they might be considered the natural wards of Great Britain. We forgot at the…

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The Colonist. Wednesday, March 6, 1839. Colonial Politics. Church Lands

The Colonist · Wednesday 6 March 1839 · page 2

IN days of yore, while yet the public mind was under the absurd delusion that the Established Church of England was also the Established Church of New South…

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Church Lands

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 8 March 1839 · page 2

In days of yore, while yet the public mind was under the absurd delusion that the Established Church of England was also the Established Church of New South Wales, the principle of…

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Original Correspondence. to the Presbyterian Inhabitants of New South Wales. Letter Iii

The Colonist · Saturday 9 March 1839 · page 2

PRESBYTERIAN BRETHREN,—The strictures of "A Scottish Presbyterian," which appeared in last Saturday's COLONIST, render it necessary that I should pursue in this letter a somewhat…

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Extracts. Catholic Missionary Meeting at Rome

The Sydney Herald · Monday 11 March 1839 · page 4

A gentleman has favoured us with the following extracts from the journal of one of his friends, who has just returned from the continent. It needs no remark to render it interesting to every…

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Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 11 March 1839 · page 2

WHETHER the supporters of our contemporary The Colonist are pleased with the coarse and intrinsically vulgar attacks made on the Lord Bishop of Australia, we have…

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Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 18 March 1839 · page 2

THE following is an extract from a charge delivered by the Lord Bishop of Glocester and Bristol, at his late visitation: -- It was now his duty to invite the attention of…

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Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 25 March 1839 · page 2

IN the late discussions in the Legislative Council, it is readily perceived with what ease each of the Honourable Members entered into the aim and end of a Bill…

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Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 1 April 1839 · page 2

WE trust we shall not be considered to have travelled out of our legitimate province in our present endeavour to awaken the friends of the Established Church to the…

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From Our Correspondent " GHOST."--No. I. Dialogue between a Clergyman of the Church of England and an Undertaker in the Protestant Burial Ground. (A Fact.)

Commercial Journal and Advertiser · Wednesday 3 April 1839 · page 3

Undertaker.--(Time very valuable, and very impatient.) I wonder where the Parson an be ; here we have been waiting upwards twenty minutes in the damp air, and one…

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Church Missionary Society

The Sydney Herald · Friday 5 April 1839 · page 2

The Anniversary of the Australian Auxiliary to the Church Mission Society, was held in the St James's School Room, Elizabeth-street, on Tuesday last. The Chair was taken by the Bishop of…

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Church and State

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 8 April 1839 · page 2

IN another part of this day's publication we give a report of the meeting of the Australian Auxiliary Church Missionary Society, the principal portion of which we…

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Church Missionary Society

The Sydney Standard and Colonial Advocate · Monday 8 April 1839 · page 3

THE Anniversary of the Australian Auxiliary to the Church Missionary. Society, was held in St. James's School Room, Elizabeth-street, on Wednesday last. The chair was taken by the Bishop…

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Persecuting Spirit of the Church

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1839 · page 6

"We elsewhere insert an account of a meeting at Llanelly on behalf of John James, the Dissener, who e imprisonment for non-attendance at church, at the…

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More of the Church

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Monday 8 April 1839 · page 6

" Sir George Arthur," says The Standard, has addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants of Upper Canada. It is long and might easily be improved by abridgment…

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English Extracts. Canada. Presbyterian and Episcopal Churches

The Colonist · Wednesday 10 April 1839 · page 4

THE last accounts from Canada furnish us with the particulars of a meeting of the members of the Scotch Church, at Kingston, for the purpose of considering the present situation of the…

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