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Churches, 1862

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The Zambesi Expedition and Mission. (From the Graham's Town Journal October 22)

Empire · Tuesday 18 February 1862 · page 2

H.M. STEAMER SIDON arrived in Simon's Bay on Monday week from Quillimaine, and has brought some further news concerning the Zambesi expedition and mission…

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Proceedings of the Australasian Wesleyan Methodist Conference. (From the Wesleyan Chronicle, February 15.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 February 1862 · page 3

THE Conference was appointed to begin on Thursday January 16th, but in consequence of the lateness of the steam vessels, the principal officers of the connexion, and the representatives from distant districts could not arrive in…

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Roman Catholic Clergyman for the Clarence Distict

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 19 February 1862 · page 6

On Wednesday evening, the 15th instant the Assembly Room in Prince-street was filled by a large and respectable portion of the inhabitants of Grafton and its vieiaity…

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Church Society

Empire · Wednesday 19 February 1862 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the Church Society was hold last evening, in the St. James's Infant School room. Castlereagh-street. The building was tolerably well, filled. The chair was taken by the Right Rev. the Bishop…

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Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 February 1862 · page 5

[?] annual meeting of the Church Society for the Diocese [?] Sydney was held on Tuesday evening in the St. James' [?] Schoolroom. The room was wall filled, and among [?] present were his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief,…

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Church of England, Melbourne. (Abridged from the Melbourne Christian Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 February 1862 · page 2

THE annual session of the Church Assembly commenced on TUESDAY, 28th JANUARY. Present: The Bishop of Melbourne, the Dean of…

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Report of the Church Society

Empire · Friday 21 February 1862 · page 3

IN Wednesday's Empire we published the proceedings at the annual meeting at the Church Society, held on the day previous: The following is the annual report, [?] by the Rev. Can a Allwood, on that [?]:—…

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St. George's Church. Induction of the Rev. William McINTYRE

Empire · Friday 21 February 1862 · page 5

A MEETING of the Sydney Presbytery of the Synod of Eastern Australia (Free Pressbyterian) was held last evening, in St. George's Church, Castlereagh-street, for the induction of the Rev. W. McIntyre to the pastoral…

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"Helps," or How the Church Assists Her Children. Chapter 1

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 February 1862 · page 1

All who have visited the town of C—r (one of the most beautiful old towns in England) must have noticed in its outskirts a group of pleasant little cottages nestling together in a cluster at…

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Church Society

Sydney Mail · Saturday 22 February 1862 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Church Society for the Diocese of Sydney was held on Tuesday evening in the St James' Infant Schoolroom. The room was well filled, and among those present were his Excellency the Governor-in-Chief…

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Consecration of Saint Benedict's Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1862 · page 5

THE Solemn Consecration of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Benedict, in Parramatta-street in this city, took place yesterday—being the Feast of St. Matthias the Apostle—with all the ancient forms and…

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The Consecration of St. Benedict's Church

Empire · Tuesday 25 February 1862 · page 4

THE solemn consecration of the Church of St. Henedict's in Parramatta-street, Sydney, was conducted yesterday by his Grace the Archbishop. The ceremony commenced at 7 o'clock [?] the morning, and together with…

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"Helps," or How the Church Assists Her Children. Chapter 1. (continued)

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 26 February 1862 · page 1

The sharp conflict in prayer had cost much to that feeble frame; a violent cough shook her weak body in the bed; and, alas! when she took the white handkerchief from her lips, there were…

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New Wesleyan Church, [?]. (A bridged from the Kiama Ezaminer.)

Empire · Thursday 27 February 1862 · page 5

THE ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of this building took place on Wednesday, the 12th instant, when a very large co[?] of persons [?]. An appropriate and [?] [?] was delivered in the…

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Tea Meeting to Primitive Methodist Missionaries

Empire · Friday 28 February 1862 · page 5

LAST EVENING a tea meeting was held in the Primitive Methodist chapel, Kent-street. The attendance was [?]lerably numerous. After the assemblage had partaken of the beverage that "cheere but not inebriates," a public…

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The Presbyterian Church of Scotland— Its Supreme Ec[?]lesiastical Courts. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 28 February 1862 · page 3

SIR.—Your readers, who according to the prevailing opinion, are very numerous in all the social grades, and in all the religious denominations of the territory, and [?] none of them more [?], proportionally, it is believed…

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"Helps," or How the Church Assists Her Children. Chapter Iv

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 March 1862 · page 1

Two hours before the two labourers had stumbled over the man, as he lay bleeding near to death on the path, an old woman and her son, who lived in the cottage where poor Mrs…

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St. Patrick's Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 1 March 1862 · page 3

On Sunday evening a meeting of the parishioners was held in St. Patrick's Hall to hear the Archdeacon's statement of the receipts and disbursements and of all the moneys connected with the Church…

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Consecration of Saint Benedict's Church

Sydney Mail · Saturday 1 March 1862 · page 2

THE Solemn Consecration of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Benedict, in Parramatta-street in this city, took place on Monday—being the Feast of St. Matthias the Apostle—with all the ancient forms and…

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Presbyterian

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 March 1862 · page 5

At St. Andrew's Scots Church, Bathurst-street, the Rev. J. Dougal preached from the text "That bringeth the Princes to nothing; he maketh the Judges of the earth as vanity." [Isaiah, xl., 23.]…

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