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Churches, 1842

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Colonial Politics. Introduction of the Voluntary System Into the Presbyterian Church in New South Wales. to the Editor of "The Scotsman," Edinburgh. Sydney, New South Wales, 21st March, 1842

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 23 March 1842 · page 193

SIR--From certain recent numbers of the Colonial Observer, which I have caused to be forwarded to your address, you will probably have learned, ere this reaches you,…

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Original Correspondence. Catholic Library

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 29 March 1842 · page 2

MR. EDITOR—Permit me through the medium of your interesting journal to offer a few remarks with regard to a subject touched upon in your last—I mean the establishment of a Catholic library. That…

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Presbyterian Church Society of New South Wales

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 30 March 1842 · page 203

On Wednesday evening last a meeting of the congregation of the Scots Church was held for the purpose of forming a society for the support and extension of the ordinances of…

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German Mission at Moreton Bay

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 30 March 1842 · page 201

The following extract of a letter from the Rev. W. S. Mackay, of Calcutta, to the Rev. Dr. Lang, will afford much gratification to the friends of the mission. It…

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Review. a Letter on Catholic Unity, addressed to the Right Hon. the Earl of Shrewsbury, by Nicholas, Bishop of Melipotamus. London: Dolman. 1841

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 31 March 1842 · page 1

All our readers will, we doubt not, be much pleased with the contents of this pamphlet, and abstract of which we at once proceed to lay before them. The right rev. author commences by tracing…

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Literary Notice. Mores Catholici; or, Ages of Faith. By Kenelm H. Digby, Esq. First volume. Cincinnati: published by the Catholic Society for the Diffusion of Religious Knowledge. Stereotyped by W. A. James, 1840

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 2 April 1842 · page 1

We have been favoured, by the kindness of the Rev. Edward Purcell, of Cincinnati—brother, we believe, of the bishop of that diocese, and editor of the Cincinnati Telegraph—with the volume of which…

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Parish Libraries

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 7 April 1842 · page 2

We are proud to say that the suggestion we made a short time ago, relative to the establishment of parochial libraries, has been already acted upon in more than one instance. The Rev. N. Coffey has…

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Consecration of Cobbity Church

The Sydney Herald · Monday 11 April 1842 · page 2

THE consecration of the Church of St. Paul, Cobbity, by the Lord Bishop of Australia, took place on Tuesday, the 5th instant. At half-past ten o'clock the people began to…

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Dr. Lang and the Presbyterian Synod

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 14 April 1842 · page 2

THE Rev. Dr. Lang has been applied to by the proprietor of the Maitland Presbyterian church to preach it vacant, it being the desire of the proprietor to have it occupied hereafter by a Voluntary minister…

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Church Extension

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 27 April 1842 · page 236

The Rev. Messrs. Tait, Fullerton, and M'Intyre are now--at the twelfth hour-- threatening to agitate for Church extension. It will not do, however. They are a post…

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Port Phillip. Churches of Melbourne

Australasian Chronicle · Thursday 28 April 1842 · page 3

The exertions of the several religious bodies of Melbourne have placed them nearly upon an equality as regards their temporal affairs. The church of St. James on the English establishment is shewing a…

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Domestic Intelligence. Church of Scotland Extension

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 30 April 1842 · page 4

A PUBLIC MEETING was held on Wednesday evening last, in St. Andrew's Church, Sydney, for the purpose of forming a Sub-Committee to promote Church Extension, in connection…

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Church of Scotland

The Sydney Herald · Saturday 30 April 1842 · page 2

A LENGTHY report of the proceedings of the meeting held in the Rev. Dr. M'GARVIE'S Church, on Wednesday evening, will be found in the fourth page of this day's…

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The Catholic Institute, and the Society for the Propagation of the Faith

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 3 May 1842 · page 2

On Sunday evening last the usual meetings of the above societies were held in the school room in Castlereagh-street, the Very Rev. F. Murphy, Vicar General, in the chair…

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Presbyterian Church in Port Phillip

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 4 May 1842 · page 6

An esteemed correspondent thus writes us from Port Phillip, in regard to the prospects of the Presbyterian Church in that district--…

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Statistics of the Catholic Church in Great Britain

Australasian Chronicle · Tuesday 10 May 1842 · page 4

England: Bedfordshire, churches and chapels 1, Berkshire 5, Buckinghamshire 1, Cambridgeshire 1, Cheshire 10, Cornwall 2, Cumberland 8, Derbyshire 9, Devonshire 8, Dorseishire 9, Durham 17,…

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New Churches.--inefficiency of Endowments

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 11 May 1842 · page 251

The 21st annual report of the Commissioners for building New Churches states as follows -- 258 churches and chapels had been previously built, affording seats for 328,253 persons, of which…

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The Church in Syria

Australasian Chronicle · Saturday 14 May 1842 · page 2

Mgr. Maximos Mazlum, Greek Catholic Patriarch of Antioch, Alexandria, and Jerusalem, has lately addressed to all the bishops and archbishops subject to his jurisdiction the following touching…

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English Extracts. Bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem. (From the Ecclesiastical Gazette.)

The Sydney Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1842 · page 2

AN ACT was passed in the last session of Parliament (5 Victoria, cap. 6), empowering the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, assisted by other Bishops, to consecrate British…

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Gaelic Presbyterian Church

The Colonial Observer · Wednesday 18 May 1842 · page 259

In answer to a letter inserted some time ago in this journal, from a subscriber to the proposed Gaelic Church in Sydney, inquiring what had been done with the money…

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