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Churches, 1839

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European Intelligence. Conversions to the Catholic Faith

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 6 December 1839 · page 4

We have been favoured with the following extract of a letter addressed to a clergyman in Sydney, from a respectable gentleman residing in…

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Poetry. the First and Last Verses of the Late John Gait, Esq., Author of the " Annals of the Parish," "Sir Andrew Wwylic," "Life of Byron," "Lawrie Todd," &C. &C

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 6 December 1839 · page 2

These pieces were given, as a token of the friendship of Mr. Galt, to Mr. R. Kibble, on his leaving Scotland for Australia, in August, 1838. They are the first and last essays of the…

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Education on Church Principles

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1839 · page 2

The following correspondence, which has taken place on this subject, having fallen into our hands, we feel ourselves fully justified in publishing it:—"My Dear Sir—I was requested, to-day, by…

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English Extracts. State of the Church in the Colonies

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 11 December 1839 · page 2

The Archbishop of Canterbury (who was with [?] difficulty followed throughout his address) sa[?] rose to present some petitions to their lordships most important subject. One of the petitions…

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Original Poetry. the Church

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 13 December 1839 · page 2

"My dove, my undefiled is but one.—Fair as the moon, clear as the sun, terrible as an army with banners." Canticles, vi. 9, 10. Church of the Lord! how terrible art thou,…

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Church Persecution

The Sydney Monitor and Commercial Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1839 · page 2

Attention was called by Mr. Thomas Duncombe to the case of John Thorogood, a dissenter who has now been upwards of thirty weeks imprisoned in Chelmsford gaol for non-payment of…

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To the Ministers and Office-bearers of the Wesleyan Methodist Societies in Manchester. London, July 6, 1839

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 20 December 1839 · page 2

"We hold the faith of our fathers held to God." REVERENED SIRS AND GENTLEMEN,—There appeared in the Morning Chronicle of the 2nd of June an advertisement, headed "National…

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Progress of England's Fourth Conversion Opening of a Catholic Church at Everingham

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 24 December 1839 · page 2

LAST WEEK we noticed to our readers that this building, which the munificence and religions zeal of William C. Maxwell, Esq., has reared for…

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The Church

The Sydney Herald · Wednesday 25 December 1839 · page 2

What is the "Church"? Is it a building?—does the word mean a " house of prayer "?—or does it not mean a congregation of persons professing…

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Education—the Church. Protest against agreeing to the Address to Her Majesty on the Archbishop of Canterbury's Resolutions on Education. Dissentient

Australasian Chronicle · Friday 27 December 1839 · page 2

1. Because the Church of England, as by law established, has been for three centuries in possesion of great wealth, and being entrusted with the education of the people,…

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The Church

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 December 1839 · page 2

WE have heard with considerable pleasure that a Meeting of the Parishioners of St. Phillip's is about to be convened for the purpose of taking into…

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The Church[?]

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1839 · page 2

We have much pleasure in informing the friends of the Established Church, that on Wednesday, the first of January, the first stone of a New Church, to be…

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Church. Important Meeting of the Parishioners of St. Phillip

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1839 · page 2

On Monday (yesterday) the Parish[?]oners of St. Phillip's met in the School Room attached to the Church, agreeably to a requisition of the Churchward[?]ns,…

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