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Churches, 1854

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The Colonial Church. (From the Morning Chronicle.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 June 1854 · page 3

IN pursuance of a promise given in the course of last session, the government have introduced a measure for relieving the colonial clergy from certain unjust and oppressive disabilities. It will be remembered that…

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The Church, the National Instructor. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 9 June 1854 · page 1

SIR—Besides the National System (so called), which in the main meets with your approval, and the Denominational, for which you say there is "no necessity," there is another whose advocates…

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Redfern Catholic School

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 June 1854 · page 9

WE have been requested to call the attention of the Roman Catholics of Redfern and Chippendale to the unfinished state of the new spacious School House lately erected…

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The Russo-turkish War.—its Bearing on the Catholic Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 June 1854 · page 8

SOME zealous Catholics think it an unaccountable, if not a criminal act, on the part of any Christian State to take up ar[?]s in favour of the Turks—those most virulent…

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Foreign Catholic Affairs. Rome, 16th Feb., 1854

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

On Sunday, 5th February, the Festival of St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr, was celebrated by the superiors and students of the Irish College with special solemnity. The…

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Persecution and Bobbery of the Church in Sardinia

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

The English papers, without a single exception, have been for the last fortnight, indulging themselves with the loudest laudations of the proceedings of the King of…

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Congregational Church Building Society

Empire · Tuesday 13 June 1854 · page 2

—At a public meeting of the above society, held on Monday evening, the 5th instant, at the church in Pitt-strect, some of the speakers exprossed a determination to commence the operations of the…

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Scots Church

Empire · Wednesday 14 June 1854 · page 3

Agreeably to previous notice, a public meeting of the congregation of the Scots Church was held in the church, in the evening of Mondar, the 5th instant, to take into consideration a proposel of…

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Church of England Conference. (From the Melbourne Morning Herald, June 15.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 20 June 1854 · page 5

THE clergy and lay representatives of the various congregations belonging to the Church of England assembled at St. James's Cathedral yesterday morning at 10 a.m. The services prescribed by the ritual for…

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St. Mary's Church, Geelong

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 24 June 1854 · page 4

Yesterday, being the celebration of Corpus Christi, was the day appointed for laying the foundation stone of the new structure to be called St. Mary's Church. From an early hour parties…

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The Scots' Church and the Late Meeting. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Saturday 24 June 1854 · page 5

SIR—In your issue of the 11th instant you were please I to give your renders and the public generally an account of a meeting held in the Jamison-street Scots' Church, drawn up by some…

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Laying the Foundation Stone of St. Mary's Church, "Geelong, by the Right Rev. Dr. Gould, Lord Bishop of Melbourne. Geelong, June 16. 1854

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 July 1854 · page 9

Yesterday was indeed a glorious and important day in the Catholic annals of this town, and one that will be long remembered by those whose happiness it was to be present at the auspicious…

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The Russian Church, the Separated Greek Church, and the Holy See

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 July 1854 · page 6

In the height of the Puseyite movement, many sincere men of that day spoke of the Separated Greek Church in such high terms of praise as to lead their readers or disciples to suppose that there…

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The Islands of the Pacific. the Special Claims of the Islands of the Pacific Ocean on the Churches of Christ. (By a South Sea Missionary.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 July 1854 · page 3

[CONCLUDED FROM THE Herald OF TUESDAY, J[?].] IN concluding this part of our subject, it remains for us to bring into one view the returns which we have already exhibited in detail, and to point out how…

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The Anglican Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1854 · page 7

Some attemp have lately been made to give a little more solemnity to Anglican confirmations and ordinations. A Protestant Clergyman once remarked to me that nothing…

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Foreign Catholic Affairs Rome

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1854 · page 7

During Wednesday and Thursday, the 15th and l6th March, theses in each of the schools of divinity—namely, Theology, Sacred Scripture, Scriptural Hermenenties…

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The Catholic Schools Public Examination

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1854 · page 9

We are gratified to learn from those who attended the late Examinations, that the scholars in general acquitted themselves to the satisfaction of the examiners, and in a…

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St. Benedict's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1854 · page 9

We are happy in being able to inform our readers that the subscription for the month of June, towards the completion of St. Benedict's Church, is most worthy of the…

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Political Economy of the Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1854 · page 6

During the course of whole centuries two objects seem to have exclusively engaged the mind of the Church—to extol the glory of God by constructing vast and splendid…

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German Prophecies on the State of the Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 July 1854 · page 5

[Prophetic Voices with Explanations. A Collection of Prophecies.] By Thomas Beykirch Licentiate of Divinity, and Curate at Dortmund, paderborn: 1849. Bartholomew Holzhauser's…

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