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Churches, 1863

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Presbyterian Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 October 1863 · page 13

A GENERAL Meeting of the congregation worshipping in the United Presbyterian Church, Phillip-street, was held last evening, for the consideration of the proposed union of Presbyterians in Australia…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 October 1863 · page 8

THE Rev. Thomas Fletcher has been appointed to the i[?]cumbency of Randwick. A number of ladies connected with the Church of St. Barnabas are about to present to their minister a portrait of…

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Presbyterian Union

Sydney Mail · Saturday 24 October 1863 · page 5

A GENERAL Meeting of the congregation worshipping in the United Presbyterian Church, Phillip-street, was held on Monday evening, for the consideration of the proposed union of Presbyterians in Australia…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. Before Messrs. E. North and W. Church

Empire · Monday 26 October 1863 · page 5

Thomas Patmore and Daniel Sullivan, drunkards, were diarharged. Frenk Bristow, master of the ship Norwood, pleaded guilty of not having a watch in charge of the deck of his…

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The French Emperor and the French Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 October 1863 · page 2

THE Moniteur publishes the following decree signed by the Emperor, and countersigned by M. Baroche, Keeper of the Seals, and Minister of Justice and of Public Worship:—…

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Church and School Lands. Public Meeting at Parramatta. (From Our Special Reporter.)

Empire · Tuesday 27 October 1863 · page 5

IN accordance with an announcement in the papers of yesterday, a publie meeting of the inhabi ants of Parramatta was held in the Court-house of that town last night. The Court-house was filled with a most…

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The Gay Woman. (From Church and Chapel. By the Author of High Church, &c.)

Empire · Tuesday 27 October 1863 · page 3

ROBERT BAFORD had no been long with his friends, before the younger of the two ladies was at his side—a bright-faced, golden-haired girl, who could scarcely be more than one and-twenty years…

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Congregational Church, Pitt-street

Empire · Tuesday 27 October 1863 · page 5

LAST, evening the Congregational Home Missionary Society for New South Wa[?]es held their annual meeting at the Congregational Church, Pitt-street; but, owing to the unfavourable state of the weather, the attendance…

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The Catholic Establishments in Jerusalem

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 28 October 1863 · page 2

The Jerusalem, correspondent of the Monde sends the following interesting description of the new Catholic-establishments in Jerusalem:—"Apart from the fine Latin Patriarchate…

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Opening of the Persbyterian Church at Moruya

Empire · Thursday 29 October 1863 · page 2

THE Rev. Patrick Fizgerald, of the Synod of New South Wales, having been settled as a Presbyterian minister at the Tumut and Wagga Wagga for about ten years, had taken the opportunity [?]f a…

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The Late Confederate Mission to Washington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 October 1863 · page 8

THE New York Tribune pubishes a letter which purports to be written at Richmond, and the object of which is to explain away the various guesses made by the Northern press as to the mission of Mr. Stephens,…

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Presbyterian Union. To the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 6 November 1863 · page 8

SIR,—In my letter on this subject, published in your issue of the 24th August, 1 observed that a testimony may be emitted not only in words but also by deeds; and that however sound the testimony emitted in…

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Synod of Australia. in Connection with the Church of Scotland. Friday, 6th November

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 November 1863 · page 5

Which day the Synod met according to adjournment, at ten o'clock. The devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev. William Ross, Rev James Adam, after which the court was duly constitued…

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The Irish Church Establishment

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 11 November 1863 · page 3

If there were anything like a public opinion in Ireland, next session would witness the downfall of the establishment. It only requires a slight effort now to tumble it; and surely…

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The Interior of a Spanish Church

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 11 November 1863 · page 5

The whole body of the church is full of people—the women seated on the ground or kneeling (there are no chairs or benches), the men standing or kneeling. And the women are all…

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The Brothers. (From Church and Chapel By the Author of High Church, &c.)

Empire · Wednesday 11 November 1863 · page 3

HE took up his position for good at the window and had not stood there long, immobile and statuesque, before Robert Bayford-and his com panton came prancing and whirling on…

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Presbyterian Union

Empire · Friday 13 November 1863 · page 5

THE meatings of synods and conferences,which, for the. last nine days, have occupied the attention of the Preabyterian commapity,were, tarmin ated yesterday and doubtless many inquiries will be made in all quarters as…

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Presbyterian Church, Newtown

Empire · Saturday 14 November 1863 · page 5

LAST evening a social tea meeting in connection with the Presbyterian, Chruch, Newtown, was held in the School of Arts, which was for the occasion very tastefully decorated with a profusion of flowers. There were…

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Presbyterian Union

Sydney Mail · Saturday 14 November 1863 · page 9
Also in Empire

At a meeting of the Conference on Presbyterian Union, on the part of representatives of the Synod of Australia, in connection with the Established Church of Scotland, the Scotland, the Sydney of Eastern Australia, and the United Preabyterian…

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