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Churches, 1861

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Presbyterian Union. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 November 1861 · page 2

SIR,—I hope that Mr, Mackenzie's genial letter on Presbyterian union will awaken a response in the hearts of the ministers and elders of the different Presbyterian churches in this colony. The basis proposed in that letter—viz.,…

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Statement of the Rev. Dr.lang, on Presbyterian Union and Late Correspondence

Empire · Tuesday 19 November 1861 · page 8

A PUBLIC meeting was held last evening in the Scots Church-hill, to hear a statement by the Rev. Dr. Lang, on the subject of the late correspondence between himself and the Synod of Anstralia,…

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Wesleyan Methodism: Church Sustentation and Extension Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 November 1861 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the New South Wales Wesleyan Methodist Church Sustentation and Extension Society was held last night in the Wesleyan Church, York-street. The Hon. A. M'Arthur, Esq. M.L.C.,…

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Wesleyan Church Sus[?]entation and Extension Society

Empire · Tuesday 19 November 1861 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the New Sonth Wales Wesleyan Methodist Church Sustentation and Extension Society was held last evening, in the Wesleyan Chapel, York-street. There were upwards of two hundred persons…

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St. Paul's Auxiliary Church Society

Empire · Tuesday 19 November 1861 · page 5

THE fifth annual meeting of the above society was held last evening in the p[?]ohial school-room, Clev[?]land. street. The attendance was extremely good, nearly 209 persons being present…

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Catholic Church, Morpeth

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 20 November 1861 · page 6

On Thursday morning, the ceremony of blessing and laying the foundation stone of the Catholic temporary church and school-house, at Morpeth, was performed by his Grace the Most…

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Church of England—bishopric of Goulburn. (Abridged from the Goulburn Chronicle)

Empire · Tuesday 26 November 1861 · page 5

ON Thursday afternoon last, a public meeting of the members of the Church of England was held at the Hall of the Mechanics' Institute, to receive the Bishop of Sydney on his return from his pastoral visit through the…

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Catholic Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1861 · page 3

REV. MICHAEL KAVANAGH, AUSTRALIA.—This esteemed clergyman, formerly a student of St. Jarlath's College—of Maynooth, who has been for the last twenty-two years on the mission in…

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To the Catholic Electors of Pourke Ward

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 27 November 1861 · page 5

GENTLEMEN—As the Municipal elections are near at hand, and as you will have the privilege of choosing from several candidates who are seeking your suffrages for election as Alderman, it may…

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Presbyterian Union. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 28 November 1861 · page 3

SIR.—Will you favour one of your readers—and one that seldom trespasses on such indulgence—with a small space in your journal on a subject which has repeately of late found a place in the Herals. I have read in the Herald…

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The Proposed Goulburn Bishopric. (From the Church of England Chronicle, December 7.)

Empire · Wednesday 11 December 1861 · page 3

WE congratulate the Churchmen of Goulbourn, and of other parts of the diocese whcih are to be included in the new See, on the prospect of their wishes being at no distant day realised. The account of the meeting and…

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Roman Catholic Divorces. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Thursday 12 December 1861 · page 5

SIR,—The Roman Catholic Archbishop having stated in his petition to the Legislative Assembly, against the Matrimonial Causes Bill, that "the indissolubility of the vinculum (or [?]) of matrimony, is with Catholic not a…

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What Is a Church or Chapel. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 December 1861 · page 8

SIR,—I read, with no little surprise, in your law report of Thursday last, that a person had been tried at the Central Criminal Court on a charge of sacrilege. Sometime ago, probably more than a twelvemonth, I saw reported, either in your journal or in…

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The Protestant Church Establishment in Ireland and the Late Sir Robert Peel

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 December 1861 · page 1

In the course of our remarks last week on the unwarrantable attack made in the Morning Post on his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, we gave a brief synopsis of the revenues accruing to the…

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The Dedication of the Church of St. Mary and St. Peter, Arklow

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 December 1861 · page 3

On Sunday last this noble church was solemnly dedicated to the service of God, by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, in the presence of a crowded and highly respectable congregation…

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Adelaide. Catholic Intelligence

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 December 1861 · page 7

The Right Rev. Dr. Geoghegan, Roman Catholic Bishop of Adelaide, paid bis first pastoral visit to Wallaroo on Tuesday, November 5. The principal object of his visit has been already…

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St. Benedict's Catholic Young Men's Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 December 1861 · page 5

The annual picnic of this society to Middle Harbour has now become almost an institution, and by the efforts of the committee to secure amusement, has been so popularised that it now fairly vies with some…

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St. Benedict's Catholic Young Men's Society

Sydney Mail · Saturday 28 December 1861 · page 4

The annual picnic of the society to Middle Harbour has now become almost an institution, and by the efforts of the committee to secure amusement, has been so popularised that it now fairly vies with some…

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The Law Established Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 December 1861 · page 5

The question is being taken up with a degree of warmth at present which shows clearly that the country is ripe for a great agitation on the subject, and that one word from the saintly…

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