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Churches, 1850

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Great High-church Demonstration

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 November 1850 · page 9

SINCE our article on Mr. Gorham was written we have received a paper containing a report of the great High-Church Meeting in St. Martin's Hall, Long Acre. The object of the meeting was to…

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Ecclesiastical Intelligence. Opening of the Penrith Church

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 21 November 1850 · page 2

On Wednesday, the 13th instant, the newly erected Catholic Church of St. Nicholas, at Penrith, was opened for Divine Service by His Grace the Archbishop, assisted by the Right Rev. Bishop…

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Extent of the Anglican Supremacy

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 November 1850 · page 6

"Now, I know what will be said; that I have no right to compare the two in this manner; that I give to the Pope, with every Catholic, a real spiritual and…

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Literature. the Church of Christ to an Anglican in Perplexity

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 November 1850 · page 4

Searcher for the Truths's pure light, Long bound in error's night, Thy haughty captor's wrath now snaps thy chain: Cast off, renounced, reviled—…

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Catholic Extracts. Impressions of a Convert

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 November 1850 · page 4

It is not too much to suppose that there is a large class of persons in this country who feel a deep interest in the present mental condition of those numerous converts who,…

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Ireland. Catholic Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, St. Mary's Cabra

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 November 1850 · page 2

On Tuesday the annual examination and vise of the female deaf mute pupils, inmates of this admirable institution, we held before his Grace the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, the Right Rev. the…

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Mr. Sconce and the Herald's "Churchman." (To the Editors of the Freeman's Journal.) Sydney, Nov. 26th, 1850

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 November 1850 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—Perhaps you will find space and patience for an exhibition of the merits of a letter addressed yesterday to the editors of the Sydney Morning Herald and signed a "Churchman." It…

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The Church of the Poor—protestant Testimony

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 28 November 1850 · page 2

The following is an extract from the sermon of a Congregational Minister at New Orleans:—"Indeed, the Roman Catholic Church is infinitely superior to any Protestant denomination in its…

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The Churches in the Colonies. House of Commons, August 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 November 1850 · page 3

SIR R. H. INGLIS rose to put a question to his honorable friend the Under Secretary for the Colonies, in reference to some late despatches of his noble friend who was at the head of…

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Church of England. Minutes of Proceedings at a Meeting of the METROPOLITAN and Suffragan Bishops of the Province of Australasia, held at Sydney, from October 1st to November 1st, A.D., 1850. REPORT

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 December 1850 · page 3

THE Metropolitan and Bishops of the Province of Australasia, having, by the good Providence of God, been permitted to assemble themselves together in the Metropolitan City of Sydney,…

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The "Opinions" of the Late Anglican Conference

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 December 1850 · page 9

THE Metropolitan suffragan of Canterbury with his sub-suffragans, have put forth a document, purporting to contain their opinions on certain subjects. There is…

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Catholic Extracts. Intellectual Effects of Catholicism

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 5 December 1850 · page 5

I now proceed to give an account of the effect that a submission to the Catholic Church exercises on the general faculties of the mind, not simply as leaving them to the…

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Government Gazette. Friday, December 6, 1850. Wesleyan Church Grants

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 7 December 1850 · page 5

THE descriptions of the following portions of Land, which have been appropriated to the Wesleyan Church, are published for general information, in order that the parties concerned may have an opportunity of…

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Catholic Extracts. Moral Effects of Catholicism

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 December 1850 · page 5

What is the popular English belief with regard to Catholic morality need not be described at any length. It is clear enough that we are thought to be—to use the word…

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Literature. the Church Dial

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 December 1850 · page 4

Beneath me was the misty sea, O'er which a beetling summit hung, And, half way up, a blasted tree With creaking branches swung:…

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Scandals in Catholic Countries

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 December 1850 · page 6

Now, this being considered, you will see how many, things take place of necessity, which to Protestants seem shocking, and which could not be avoided, unless it had…

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Catholic Extracts. Monks and Nuns

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 December 1850 · page 5

I find it difficult to meet the popular feelings about monks and nuns with any fully intelligible and satisfactory answer; because I now can scarcely realise those feelings,…

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Epitome of Home News. the Rev. C. Gorham and W. MASKELL. (To the Editor of the Church and State Gazette.)

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 December 1850 · page 3

SIR,—In a recent number to your paper u was stated that the Rev. W. Maskell examined me, or Assisted the Bishop of Exeter in his examination of me. I have not your paper at hand, so that I…

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The Would and the Church

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 19 December 1850 · page 6

The world believes in the world's ends as the greatest of goods; it wishes society to be governed simply and entirely for the sake of this world. Provided it could gain one…

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Catholic Extracts. the Catholic's Peculiar Power of Realizing Truth

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 26 December 1850 · page 5

In recording my personal experience of the influence of the doctrines of Catholisism, and the remarks I have been able to make upon their influence on, other Catholics, it…

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