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Churches, 1844

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Reading for Churchmen in the Bush. the Cross of Christ--the Measure of the World

The Sydney Record · Saturday 30 March 1844 · page 206

"And I if I be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me."-- John xii. 32. A great number of men live and die without reflecting at all upon the state of tilings in which they…

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Original Correspondence. Daily Church Services. To the Editor of the Australian Daily Journal

The Australian · Saturday 6 April 1844 · page 3

SIR,—In that part of the Preface to the Book of Common Prayer, which relates to the Services of the Church, 1 find tho following directions given to Clergymen, in…

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The Rev. Dr. Fletcher on the Anglican Church

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 17 April 1844 · page 4

This is a work to which the attention of all ought to be directed, whether clergy or laity. The signs of the times demand it; the subject itself demands it; and last, though not least, the very name of its…

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Letters on the Inquisition. (Continued from our last.) Notes and Illustrations. Persecution Is Not a Catholic Tenet

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 17 April 1844 · page 4

(A) It has been sufficiently demonstrated in the series of the preceding letters, that the Inquisition is a political institution; and that although it did, sometimes, inflict the penalty of death upon heretics,…

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Mariners' Church. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 April 1844 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Permit me to correct an error which appeared in your valuable paper of this morning, relative to the Mariners' Church, now in course of election at Soldiers' Point. It is…

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Scots Church

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 18 April 1844 · page 20

The annual meeting of the congregation of this Church to receive the Report of the Committee of Management for the past, and to elect a committee for the present year,…

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Scottish Mission to the Hebrews

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 April 1844 · page 3

DAMASCUS.—Letter from the Rev. Dr. Wilson to the Rev. Dr. Keith:—"Constantinople, August 5, 1843. My dear Sir,—I shall defer entering upon the particulars of the journey of…

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Domestic Intelligence. the Bethel Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 April 1844 · page 2

YESTERDAY morning, a considerable number of persons, ladies as well as gentlemen, assembled at Soldier's Point, to witness the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the Bethel Church…

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Mariners' Church

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 25 April 1844 · page 4

A large number of persons of respectable appearance, including a considerable number of ladies, assembled yesterday morning, at eleven o'clock at the Soldier's Point,…

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The Church

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 25 April 1844 · page 8

It is almost impossible to conceive, that after the repeated proofs of folly in its worst aspect, exhibited by mankind with reference to religious information in past ages, a nation rightly assuming the highest…

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Opening the Free Church

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 25 April 1844 · page 3

God of our Fathers! by thy grace, This House, erected to thy name; We enter as our resting-place, Thy love and glory to proclaim…

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Laying the Foundation-stone of the Mariners' Church

The Australian · Thursday 25 April 1844 · page 3

The foundation stone for a church for soamen visiting the port of Sydney, and their relatives on shore, was laid by the Hon. Captain Hope, of Her Majesty's Ship Thalia, under the…

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Mariners' Church

The Guardian · Saturday 27 April 1844 · page 51

The foundation stone of the proposed mariners' church at Soldiers' Point, Erskine-street, was laid on Wednesday last, by the Hon. Captain Hope of H. M. S. Thalia. The ceremony, which was witnessed…

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Aboriginal Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1844 · page 2

WE have received a copy of the third Annual Report of the Apsley Aboriginal Mission to the Aborigines, conducted and supported by the Rev. William Watson, from which we gather…

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(No. 3.) Mission House, Paofai, 15th November, 1843. To Captain Tucker, R.N., &c., &c., commanding H.B.M. ship Dublin

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1844 · page 2

Sir,—Having been invited by the Governor of this island to meet him at his residence this day, we have deemed it our duty to address to him a letter, respectfully declining that invitation,…

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No. 6. Mission House, Papeite, 17th Nov., 1843. To His Excellency the Governor of the French Possessions in the Pacific Ocean

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 30 April 1844 · page 2

Sir,—We beg to acknowledge the polite address you did us the honour to transmit to us individually, in reply to the united communication we forwarded to you of yesterday's date,…

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Colonial Politics. the Approaching Disruption of the Church of England

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 2 May 1844 · page 33

THERE is no subject of deeper or more [?]sorbing interest at the present moment, [?] both sides of the Atlantic, than the rapid [?]trogade movement of the Protestant…

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The Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 May 1844 · page 2

THE Bishop of Austiahn held his third triennial visitation of the clergy of his diocese yesterday, in St. Andrew's Church. At eleven o'clock the Bishop was received…

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Mission of the Cape of Good Hope. Extract from a Letter of his Lordship Dr. Griffish, Vicar-Apostolic of the Cape, to the Members of the Central Councils of the Association. "Gentlemen

Morning Chronicle · Wednesday 8 May 1844 · page 3

"It is time for me to fulfil the promise I made of forwarding to you a short notice upon the Mission of the Cape: I have but few moments at my command to treat on so vast a subject. I shall…

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Free Church

The Colonial Observer · Thursday 9 May 1844 · page 43

Extract of a Letter from Perth, in Scotland, to a person in Sydney, of date 15th November, 1843:-- I dare say the newspapers, have informed you that…

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