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Churches, 1859

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A Church Going Into Business. (From the New York Tribune.)

Empire · Friday 4 November 1859 · page 3

YES, and such a business? None of your vulgar huckstering I your piddler-pedlery! your small barter of such insignificant commodities as rice, cotton, corn, or tobacco! Had the General…

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Catholic Schools

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 November 1859 · page 2

Now that the Public Education Bill is no more, the schools, we presume, throughout the colony, both National and Denominational, will hear the same relation to one…

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The Catholic in the English Workhouse

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 5 November 1859 · page 4

Tho condition of the poor, and the complicated and ineffective legislation which, as consequences, followed tho flagitious confiscation and wholesale alienation of ecclesiastical property, have been a…

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Synod of Australia. Annual Report of the Proceedings of the Synod of Australia, in Connection with the Established Church of Scotland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 November 1859 · page 3

THE annual sittings of this reverend court commenced on Wednesday, 26th October last, when the late Moderator (Rev. James Smith White, minister of Singleton) preached the opening sermon, from Judges vi., 14—"Go in this thy…

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The Rumoured Customs Seizure of Alleged "Church Ornaments."

Empire · Monday 7 November 1859 · page 5

SOME rumouts and statements were afloat during the latter part of last week, in which it was alleged that several cases of goods, imported ex British Merchant, and for which entries were passed as "personal effects…

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The Church and the Revolution

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 9 November 1859 · page 1

"Undoubtedly," said O'Connor, "the dominant sentiment of the populations of Europe is in favor of what we call self-government, or the government of the nation by itself. It is therefore opposed to…

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Reception of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide

Empire · Friday 11 November 1859 · page 2

THE Right Rev. Dr. Geoghegan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaida, arrived at the capital of his diocese in the steamer Omeo, and had been warmly received. We take the following from the South Australian…

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The Mission at Barnet

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 November 1859 · page 3

[We insert the following for two reasons—lst, to show the scarcity of clergy in England, where a mission seems entirely to depend upon the exertions and presence of a foreign priest; and 2ndly, to…

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House of Commons.—thursday, July 4. Roman Catholic Sailors in the Navy

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 12 November 1859 · page 3

Mr. Hennessy asked the Secretary of the Admiralty whether the Government were ready to carry into effect the recommendations of the late Board of Admiralty respecting the treatment of Catholic…

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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia

Empire · Monday 14 November 1859 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

THE Synod of Eastern Australia met in Macquarie-street Church, Sydney, on Wednesday, the 2nd current, at 12 o'clock noon, and was opened by a sermon preached by Rev. Archibald Cameron, of Wellingrove,…

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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia

Empire · Monday 14 November 1859 · page 7

THE Synod of Eastern Australia met in Macquarie-street Church, Sydney, on Wednesday, the 2nd current, at 12 o'clock noon, and was opened by a sermon preached by Rev. Archibald Cameron, of Wellingrove,…

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Pastoral Address of the Archbishops and Bishops to the Catholic Clergy and People of Ireland

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 November 1859 · page 1

VENERABLE AND DEARLY-BELOVED BRETHREN—The education of the Catholic youth of Ireland holds a foremost place among the questions affecting the present and future well-being of our…

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Irish Nationality and the Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 19 November 1859 · page 4

The Right Hon. W. Cardwoll is by this time in receipt of the resolutions arrived at by the assembled Bishops of Ireland on the education question. The Nation says:…

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Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 22 November 1859 · page 5

THE first annual meeting of the above Society was held last nignt, in the York-street Wesley in Church. About five hundred persons were present, and on the platform there were about a dozen ministers from various parts of the colony…

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Conversion of an Anglican Rector

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 23 November 1859 · page 3

We announced in our second edition of last week, the reception of an Anglican clergyman into the Catholic Church. We are now enabled to give further particulars. The clergyman referred to is the…

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CORRESPONDENCE. [We are not responsible for the opinion our correspondents.] Checks Upon Catholic Development

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 23 November 1859 · page 2

SIR,—One looks around among the Catholic population in vain to discover anything bordering upon that animation, vigour, or zeal which might manifest itself in on active desire to accelerate the…

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Education—the Voice of the Irish Church

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 23 November 1859 · page 2

THE fathers of the Irish Church assembled in Synod have in the most earnest but dignified manner pronounced their final decision on a subject that hag for many years…

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Confirmation in St. Matthew's Church, Windsor

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 23 November 1859 · page 2

According to tho expectation alluded to in our last communication, his Grace tho Archbishop, accompanied by the Rev. Mr. Sheehy, arrived here on Saturday afternoon for the purpose of…

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The Protestant Press and the Catholic Prelates

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 30 November 1859 · page 2

The Pastoral Address of the Catholic Hierarchy of Ireland has opened all the flood gates of venomous scurrility and rancourous fanaticism of which the British Press is capable. The worst…

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