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Sydney · Churches

Churches, 1848

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Original Correspondence. Free Church. To the Editor of the Australian Journal

The Australian · Friday 10 March 1848 · page 3

SIR,—I have heard it stated that an endeavour is being made by a large number of Episcopalians to establish a Free Church in Sydney, in consequence of their feeling dissatisfied with the…

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Original' Correspondence the Free Protestant Church. To the Editor of the Australian Journal

The Australian · Friday 17 March 1848 · page 3

SIR.—It is with much pain I perceive, by your last issue, that a scheme is in contemplation to provide a new class of Dissenters with a "Free Protestant Church." However well meant such…

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Who Are the Church? To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 March 1848 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—"A hearer of Christ and his Apostles," who has published a letter in the Atlas, asks at its commencement, "Are the clergy or the people the Church?"…

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Government Gazette. Tuesday, March 21, 1848. Presbyterian Church Grants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1848 · page 3

THE descriptions of the following Grants of Land which have been appropriated to the purposes of the Presbyterian Church, as hereunder more particularly mentioned, are…

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Original Correspondence. Which Is the True Church? To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 March 1848 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—My attention has been directed to an article in the Sydney Chronicle on Church Establishments, which claims supremacy for the Church of Rome on the authority of the…

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Ireland. the Catholic Prelates—deputation to the Lord Lieutenant

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 23 March 1848 · page 4

The Freeman of Tuesday says :— "A deputation of the Prelates waited yesterday on the Lord Lieutenant, at the Viceregal Lodge, Phœnix Park, to present the memorial upon the state of the country…

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Italian Reformed Church

The Sentinel · Thursday 23 March 1848 · page 2

In our fourth page will be found a report of a Speech delivered by Dr. Achilli at a Meeting of the friends of the Malta Protestant College and Italian reformed Church. The following…

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The Malta Prostestant College and Italian Reformed Church.--speech of Dr. Achilli

The Sentinel · Thursday 23 March 1848 · page 4

"Dear brethen,--The Rev. Mr. Niven has spoken to you of the Malta Protestant College and be has also spoken to you about myself and the Italian Church. Allow me now to say a few words on…

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REVIEWS. Duffy's Irish Catholic Magazine, for October. Dublin: Duffy. 1847

Sydney Chronicle · Saturday 25 March 1848 · page 4

From the miscellaneous matter of the present number we select a tale in the form of a poem—a fragment even in the Magazine—which we have again reduced:—…

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"The Reformed Church of England."

The Australian · Friday 31 March 1848 · page 3

The Rev. Dr. Dillon, who, it will be recollected, was suspended three or four years since by the Bishop of London, held an Ordination at White's-row Chapel, Spitalfields, with place…

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On the Working of Sir Richard Bourke's Church Act

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Reviewer · Saturday 1 April 1848 · page 1

Come back, long-toiling Bourke! come back and see The produce of the Good-and-Evil Tree! Count o'er its mingled fruits of joy and pain,…

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The Sydney Chronicle. Tuesday, April 11, 1848. Magna Est Veritas by Prevalebit. Effect of Catholic Principles Upon Society

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 11 April 1848 · page 2

THE Atlas of last Saturday has furnished us, in its first sentence, with a grave subject, to the calm and dispassionate consideration of which we would anxiously invite…

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Which Is the True Church? To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 April 1848 · page 3

GER[?]MEN,—In my letter of the 22nd ult., l[?]ved the false translation of that portion of [?]y writ on which supremacy for the [?]h of Rome had been claimed by the…

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WEDNESDAY. The SPEAKER took the chair at the usual hour. Presbyterian Marriages

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 13 April 1848 · page 2

Mr. FOSTER presented a petition from the Minister and congregation of the Presbyterian Synod, praying the Council to introduce a Bill to legalize the solemnization of marriages by…

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The Church Question

The Australian · Friday 14 April 1848 · page 3

After all there has been an election cry—the separation of Church and State. Wait a while and the cry will deepen into a roar. The Church has heard the distant muttering; and if…

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Ecclesiastical Intelligence. the Proposed Australian Protestant Church. Mr. Woodwards Case

The Australian · Friday 14 April 1848 · page 3

A PLAN for building or purchasing a Proprietary Church, and providing a Temporary Chapel for the Rev. Charles. Woodward. B. C. L., is in active train, and we…

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Roman Catholic Prelates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 April 1848 · page 3

THE following circular respecting the titles of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church has been addressed to Sir Charles. Fitz Roy and other Governors. Archbishop Polding will…

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REVIEW. The Claims and Supremacy of the Scriptures as the Rule of Faith and Practice, applied to the Doctrines of the Church of Rome: A Sermon, preached in St. Thomas's Church, Willoughby, on Sunday, 27th February, 1848 (with an appendix of notes). By the Rev. W. B. CLARKE, M. A. Sydney: W. and F. Ford. Colman and Piddington

Sydney Chronicle · Tuesday 18 April 1848 · page 3

Mr. Clarke has done what every few people can do. He has published a sermon against the Catholic religion without assuming, as is usual with Protestant controversialists, the chair of infallible authority,…

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St. Patrick's Catholic Church.—auckland

Sydney Chronicle · Thursday 20 April 1848 · page 4

THE consecration of this beautifully substantial edifice took place on Sunday, 19th March, by the Right Rev. Dr. Viard, Catholic Bishop, assisted by his clergy; the old and venerable rights of primitive…

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Roman Catholic Prelates

The Sentinel · Thursday 20 April 1848 · page 2

The following circular respecting the titles of Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church has been addressed to Sir Charles Fitz Roy and other Governors. Archbishop Polding will in…

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