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Churches, 1854

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Wooden Four-wheeled Chapel for Catholic Worship

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 May 1854 · page 10

To the extreme south western point of the County of Clare lies the parish of Carrigaholt, extending from Cox's ferry to Loophead, a instance of over twenty miles. This is a…

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Newcastle Church Society. (From the Maitland Mercury.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 May 1854 · page 3

ON Thursday, the annual meeting of the Newcastle Church Society was held at Morpeth. In the morning divine service was performed in the church,which was pretty full. The Rev. R. G. Boodle, M.A., preached…

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Synod of Australia.—adjourned Meeting. St. Andrew's Church, Sydney, April 26, 1854

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 11 May 1854 · page 4

THE Synod met this day (Wednesday), pursuant to adjournment, at noon, and was constituted with prayer. Sederunt, the Rev. James B. Laughton, B.A., of Paterson, Moderator of Synod; The Rev…

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Newcastle Church Society. (Abridged from the Maitland Mercury, May 6.)

Empire · Thursday 11 May 1854 · page 1

On Thursday the annual meeting of the Newcastle Cburch Society was held at Morpesh. In the morning divine service was performed in the church, which was pretty full. The Rev. R…

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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 May 1854 · page 4

THE Synod of this Chnrch met in the Free Church, Pitt-street, on Wednesday, 3rd May. The members present were the Rev. William Lumsdaine, of Richmond, Moderator: the Rev. Alexander Salmon, of Sydney; Rev. George Mackie, of Kiama; Rev. Arthur…

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Is the Catholic Religion Reasonable Religion?

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 May 1854 · page 8

In a former number of this journal we laid down certain broad and universally admitted principles to guide us in the fair and candid investigation of this question and…

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The Turks at Kalafat—catholic Feeling on the Contest

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 May 1854 · page 4

When Pyrrhus reconnoitred the position of the Romans, at that time classed by the proud Greeks in the same category with the Celts or the Iberians, he remarked:—…

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Death of the Right Rev. Charles Henry Davis. Roman Catholic Bishop of Maitland

Empire · Thursday 18 May 1854 · page 2

We have to announce this morning that, notwithstanding the iavoruable change mentioned in yesterday's issue, the illness from which the above-named Prelate bad been recently suffering…

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The Church in America. (From the Morning Post, January 27.)

Empire · Friday 19 May 1854 · page 3

On Tuesday last, the Reverend E. Hobhouse' B.D., Follow of Merton College, and Vicar of St. Peter's-in-the-East, in Cambridge, delivered to the members of the Church of England Reading…

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Gratifying Result of the Sale of Father Therry's Land, for Church Purposes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 10

We have been most agreeably disappointed by the result of this sale. No doubt we expected a handsome sum for St. Mary's, from the generous offer of the good…

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The Established Church of England

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 May 1854 · page 8

The Edinburgh Review for January last, in an able article on "Ecclesiastical Economy," takes to piecess the machinery of the Established Church, its clerical engineers,…

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Relative Growth of Church and Dissent. (From the Daily News.)

Empire · Monday 22 May 1854 · page 3

Facts are stubborn things; and the hardest nuts the Church of England has had to crack since the Reformation are certainly the facts and figures of the census of 1851. For,…

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Swearing on the Catholic Gospels. to the Editor Op the Tablet

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 27 May 1854 · page 5

My dear Sir—It may be useful to Catholics who have to appear as witnesses in courts of justice, or to perform other duties under the condition of an oath, to know…

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Iron Church Architecture

Empire · Tuesday 30 May 1854 · page 2

We have had submitted to us for inspection the plans and specifications of an Irou Church about to be erected in Macquarie-street for the Rev. Alexander Salmon. The church is to be…

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Church of England Temperance Association. (From the Melbourne Herald, May 25.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 31 May 1854 · page 2

THE Committee of this Association have issued the [?] following Address:— We feel it our duty at this particular crisis in the history of our adopted country, to call your attention[?]…

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The Birmingham Catholic Association

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 June 1854 · page 6

The first annual dinner of the above association took place on the 31st of January, in the dining hall of the Bishops' House, Bath-street. John Hardman, Esq., chairman of the association…

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His Grace the Catholic Archbishop of Dublin

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 June 1854 · page 8

The Most Revd. Dr. Cullen, in his Lenten Pastoral Letter, a long, comprehensive, and elaborate document, devoted two short paragraphs to the consideration of…

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Mission of the Nuncio to the United States—general Cass's Resolution

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 June 1854 · page 5

WASHINGTON, MONDAY, JAN. 23.—In the Senate, Mr. Cass (of Michigan) offered the following resolution:— "Resolved—That the President of the United…

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Congregational Church Building Society, for New South Wales

Empire · Tuesday 6 June 1854 · page 3

In pursuance of advertisement, a meeting of members of the Congregational denomination was held last evening in the Church in Pitt street, for the purpose of introducing the object and…

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Congregational Church Building Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 7 June 1854 · page 2

PURSUANT to advertisement, a public meeting of the Congregational Church Building Society of New South Wales took place on Monday evening in the Congregational Church, Pitt-street, for the purpose of…

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