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Churches, 1864

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Piedmontese Royalty and the Church

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 6 April 1864 · page 3

Sir George Bowyer has addressed the follow ing letter to the editor of the Times:— "Sir—Seeing in the Times and other papers comments on the appointments of several…

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REV. J. Graham's Intended Removal to Sydney. (From the British Standard, January 15.) Address to the Church and Congregation Worshipping in Craven Chapel, London

Empire · Wednesday 6 April 1864 · page 3

MY dear Friends,—On the first Lord's day of 1863 I little thought I should address to you such a communication, as I now do on the first Lord's day of 1884. Most of you know that I have been seriously pondering an invitation to…

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The Melanesian Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1864 · page 3

THE following address was delivered by Bishop Patteson, on Saturday evening last, at a meeting convened for the purpose of hearing from him an account of the state and prospects of the Melanesian mission. The…

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On Presbyterian Union. (From the English Presbyterian Magazine)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 April 1864 · page 8

A PICTURE cannot be drawn if the laws of colour and the principles of beauty are set aside. A statue cannot come forth from the sculptor's hands if there be no consistent image in his eye, and no attention paid to the laws which…

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Water Police Court. Saturday. Before Mr. W. Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 April 1864 · page 8

William Langridge, a seaman belonging to the steamship Simla, was charged, wish having deterted that vessel on the 7th February 1857. The vessel not being in port, and no pro[?]ccution from the Shipping Master, prisonerwas…

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The Presbyterian College. to the Honorable Members of the Legislative Assembly. (Per favour of Sydney Morning Herald)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 April 1864 · page 8

GENTLEMEN,—As it is probable you will be asked one day this week to pass the bill which has been before your House all the session, for the establishment of a Presbyterian College, I beg to remind you of the facts of the case, as an appeal to you to…

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Melanesian Mission

Empire · Saturday 16 April 1864 · page 5

LAST evening a public meeting was held in St. James's School-room, Castlereagh street, to receive from the Right Reverend Bishop Patteson a statement of the Melahesian mission, and to adopt measures for the furtherance of its…

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Parramatta. [From Our Correspondent.] Auxiliary Church Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1864 · page 5

THE annual meeting of this society, which from various causes has been from time to time postponed, took place in St. John's schoolroom on Monday evening. The attendance was very small, the result probably of the repeated…

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Religious Summary. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 April 1864 · page 11

IN the Queen's letters patent creating the new Bi[?]hopric of Goulburn and appointing the first Bishop among other things appear the following:—"Goulburn, which is to be called the 'City of Goulburn,' is appointed the seat of the Bishop; and it is…

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Vi. the Poet's Mission

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1864 · page 2

What tho' amidst the People he may stand, A shred, a very waif, in look and form, His presence, even as the coming storm, Shall drive a pestilence from off the land!…

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The Consecration of St. Mark's Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 April 1864 · page 4

YESTERDAY morning, the 25th of April, being St. Mark's Day, the beautiful Anglo-Norman Church of the suburban parish of Alexandria was by the Right Rev. Dr. Barker, the Metropolitan Bishop of Sydney,…

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Catholic Education.—the Mixed System

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 27 April 1864 · page 3

"Omnibus Omnia," willing to the Globe in reference to the the mixed system of education forced on Catholics in England, says—" The difficulty which you labour under, as well as…

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The Catastrophe at Santiago. Further Particulars. Lies of the Anti Catholic Press Exposed

Freeman's Journal · Wednesday 27 April 1864 · page 1

We have compiled the following particulars if this terrible disaster from Le monde, Tablet, New York Sun and other journals in Ireland, England, and America. At the date of our last…

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Wesleyan Church Sustentation and Extension Society

Empire · Thursday 28 April 1864 · page 5

THE annual meeting of the North Sydney Circuit Branch of this society was held last evening in the Cantenary Chapel, York-street. The business of the meeting was commenced by singing the byran beginning…

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New Hebrides Mission

Empire · Friday 29 April 1864 · page 8
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A PUBLIC MEETING was held last eveing in the Masonic Hall, to welcome the missionaries who recently arrived by me Day Spring for the New Hebrides Minion. C the platform were the Revds. Messrs. J. Dougall, A…

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New Hebrides Mission

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 April 1864 · page 3

A PUBLIC meeting in connection with the mission to the New Hebrides was held on Tuesday at the Masonic Hall. The building was completely filled in every part. Mr. Samuel Thompson was voted to the chair…

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The Catastrophe at Santiago. Further Particulars. Lies of the Anti Catholic Press Exposed. (Concluded from our last.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 30 April 1864 · page 1

The New York Freeman's Journal remarks upon the dreadful catastrophe :— " We give an account of the terrible disaster that occurred in a vast church in San Iago, in…

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The Consecration of St. Mark's Church

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 April 1864 · page 8

ON Monday morning, the 25th of April, being St. Mark's Day, the beautiful Anglo-Norman Church of the suburban parish of Alexandria was by the Right Rev. Dr. Barker, the Metropolitan Bishop of Sydney,…

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Presbyterian Union. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Tuesday 3 May 1864 · page 4

SIR.—As the meeting of the two Presbyterian Synods takes place to this city tomorrow, and as the question of Union wlll then be discussed, and, in all probability, conclusively settled, I think it my duty to state, that…

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