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Churches, 1857

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The Church of England Only a Half-endowed Church. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 March 1857 · page 8

WHEN people have overworked an argument or a theory, or a maxim, whether in politics or religion, a day of retribution is sure to come. This is the case now with respect to the fiscal…

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Church of England Meeting at the Glebe

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 March 1857 · page 4
Also in Empire

THE school-house, which is also to be used as a temporary church, at the Glebe, the erection of which commenced about three months ago, having been recently completed, was opened for public worship on Sunday…

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Education As Exemplified in the Labors of the Catholic Priesthood

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 March 1857 · page 2

AMID the multitudinous variety of the products of human skill and labor, with which our infant nation abounds, there are none that present themselves under so engaging…

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Catholic Chaplains for the Army and Navy

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 March 1857 · page 4

Whatever be the motive of the Protestant Alliance, can the members of that association seriously think that this country con now retrace its steps, upset the political growth of a century,…

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The Western District. (From the Bathurst Free Press, March 14.) Church of England Denominational School

Empire · Tuesday 17 March 1857 · page 2

A public meeting of the subscribers to the proposed Church of England Denominational Sohool was held at the Court House, on Thursday evening, the 5th instant. mr. G. F. Wise having been called to the chair,…

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The Census of New South Wales. No. Vii. Education of the Churches

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 March 1857 · page 4

THE previous number related to the education of the people without other distinctions than those of age and sex. We have now to analyse a table headed in the Census Returns…

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England Must Be Prepared to Perform Her Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1857 · page 2

I MAY ask, as thousands of Englishmen have done, how is it that liberal institutions, freedom of the Press, constitutional government, respect for the laws and social order that have so long…

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St. Michael's Church, Surry Hills. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 March 1857 · page 5

SIR,—In your report of the opening of St. Michael's Church, in the Herald of yesterday, it is stated that the said church was built entirely on the voluntary principle, and without State aid. This statement is…

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St. Michael's Church, Surry Hills. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 March 1857 · page 8

SIR,—In your issue of this morning appears a letter signed " A Voluntary," calling in question the accuracy of your report of the opening of St. Michael's Church…

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St. Patrick's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1857 · page 2

Tuesday last, the 17th instant, being the festival of St. Patrick, his Grace the Archbishop, as previously announced, celebrated High Mass at St. Patrick's Church…

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The Knightsbridge Churches Case. Dismissal of Mr. Liddell's Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 31 March 1857 · page 3

LIDDELL (CLERK) AND HOENE AND OTHERS v. WESTERTON AND LIDDELL (CLERK) AND PARKE AND EVENS v. NEALE. ON Saturday, the 18th of December, 1856,…

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Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 April 1857 · page 5

A MEETING of the members of the St. Peter's, Cook's River, Auxiliary Church Society was held on Monday evening, the 30th March, at the Church of England School-house, Cook's River Road, to receive the…

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School-house and Temporary Church at Waverley

Empire · Friday 3 April 1857 · page 4

On Tuesday evening last, a small but influential meeting of the residents of Waverley and its neighbourhood took place at the residence of Captain Mayne, to provide for the erection of a building to be used as a…

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On the Position of the Roman Catholic Laity. To the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 April 1857 · page 2

SIR,—May I beg the favour of the insertion of the following remarks, which, although probably not interesting to the whole of your readers, may perhaps be tolerated from their importance in reference to a very…

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Catholic Church in Canada

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1857 · page 2

We have been favoured with the following extract from a private letter addressed by a gentleman in Canada to a friend in Sydney. As it must into rest our readers, we have requested permission to…

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Sir Richard Richard Bourke's Church Act

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 April 1857 · page 2

The Catholics nf Australia look upon this memorable Act of 1835 as the "Magna Charta" of their religious freedom and equality, their civil liberty having boon established by the…

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Church of England.—meeting at Raymond Terrace. (From the Maitland Mercury of Yesterday.)

Empire · Wednesday 22 April 1857 · page 3

On Saturday last a meeting was held at Roymond Terrace, pursuant to advertisement, for the adoption of a reply to the letter of the Bishop of Newcastle to the members of the Church of England in the district,…

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Parramatta. [From Our Correspondent.] Australian Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 April 1857 · page 4

MR. WOOLLS read a paper on Hebrew poetry before the members of St. John's Auxiliary of the Church Society, in the School Room, on Monday evening. After defining poetry to be the language of the [?]eelings,…

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Parramatta. [From Our Correspondent.] Australian Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 April 1857 · page 8

MR. WOOLLS read a paper on Hebrew poetry before the members of St. John's Auxiliary of the Church Society, in the School Room, on Monday evening. After defining poetry to he the language of the feelings,…

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