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Churches, 1869

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Presbyterian Church of New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 October 1869 · page 5

BY appointment of the General Assembly, a public meeting was held last evening, in the Phillip-street church, in connection with the following schemes of the Church; Church extension; foreign missions; ministers' windows' and…

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Presbyterian General Assembly

Empire · Wednesday 27 October 1869 · page 2

The General Assembly met yesterday morning in Phillip street Church. After prayer the minutes were read and confirmed. The Rev. George Mackie, of the Presbyterian Church of Victoria, was invited to sit…

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General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. Session the Fifth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 October 1869 · page 3

NINTH SEDERUNT.—The General Assembly met yesterday morning, the 20th instant, and, after prayer, proceeded to business. CHURCH OF VICTORIA…

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Presbyterian General Assembly

Empire · Thursday 28 October 1869 · page 4

The General Assembly met yesterday morning in Phlllip-street Church. The clerk read the reports of presbyteries nominating ministers and elders as members of the Church Extension and Supplementarys…

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General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. Fifth Session

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 28 October 1869 · page 2

ELEVENTH SEDERUNT.—The General Assembly met yesterday morning at 10.30, and, after prayer, proceeded to business. CHURCH EXTENSION COMMITTEE…

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Public Breakfast Ot the Doerator, Ministers, and Elders of the Presbyterian Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1869 · page 8

YESTERDAY morning a public breakfast was given to the Moderator, ministers, and representative elders of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. It took place at the Metropolitan Hotel, in…

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Demands of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1869 · page 5

The Roman Catholic Archbiships and Bishops have published a series of resolutions adopted at their late meeting at Maynooth College on the education and land questions. They condemn the mixed system of…

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The Irish Episcopal Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 October 1869 · page 5

The Irish Episcopalians are rallying in earnest for the re-endowment of their Church, by meanB of voluntaryism, and large subscriptions are being raised —one gentleman has already given £10,000. The…

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The Catholic Church in Rome

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 7

The ecclesiastical authorities of Rome have just published a census for the present year. The statistics show that the regular clergy is composed of 2,265…

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General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. Fifth Session

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 11

ON the 19th instant, those devotional exercises which always precede the opening of a General Assembly in the Presbyterian Church were engaged in by a large congregation in the Phillip-street Church—the building in…

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Public Breakfast to the Moderator, Ministers, and Elders of the Presbyterian Church

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 4

ON Thursday morning a public breakfast was given to the Moderator, ministers, and representative elders of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. It took place at the Metropolitan Hotel, in…

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Demands of the Irish Roman Catholic Bishops

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 2

The Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops have published a series of resolutions adopted at their late meeting at Maynooth College on the education and land questions. They condemn the mixed system of…

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Church Meetings. the Congregational Union of New South Wales. Fourth General Assembly

Sydney Mail · Saturday 30 October 1869 · page 11

The fourth general assembly of ministers and delegates from the various churches in connection with the Congregational Union of New South Wales commenced its sittings on 19th instant, by a devotional service, which was…

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Catholic Education Association

Empire · Thursday 4 November 1869 · page 2

Last night the second annual meeting of the above association was held in St. Mary's Seminary. There was a good attendance, and the Very Rev. S J. A. Sheehy, V.G., occupied the chair…

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General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. Fifth Session

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 November 1869 · page 5

ON the 19th of October, these devotional exercises which always precede the opening of a General Assembly in the Presbyterian Church were engaged in by a large congregation in the Phillip-street Church—the building in which…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 November 1869 · page 6

October 4.—The parishioners of St. Philip's availed [?]hemselvos of the occasion of Doan Cowper leaving their Sparish to enter upon his duties at the Cathedral, to testify, by ietter, the esteem in which he has been held by them, to…

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Catholic Association

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 9

On Wednesday evening the second annual meeting of the members of the Catholic Association was held in St. Mary's Seminary, the Very Rev. S. A. J. Sheehy, V. G., in the chair…

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Important Resolutions of the Catholic Archbishops and Bishops

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 6

The Catholic Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, assembled at St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, on Wednesday, the 18th of August, 1869, his Eminence Cardinal Cullen…

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Our Pugin-gothic Churches

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 11

Church-building in Ireland is on the increase although the population has been for some years fastly decreasing. Gothic structures are everywhere studding the land; and it were to be…

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The Fashionable Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 November 1869 · page 12

Who would not be in the fashion! Are there many of us who scorn upper-ten-dom, and seek not to imitate (from afar, perhaps) the follies and virtues of our brown-stone-mansioned…

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