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Churches, 1870

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The Protestant Church in Prussia

Sydney Mail · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 6

His Majesty the King of Prussia has issued the following decree:—"The great movements which in our age are making themselves felt in the religious life both of nations and individuals, and are pressing forward to a decision, and…

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The Popery of Ritualism ; of Romanism in the Church of England. No. XV

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 1 January 1870 · page 12

IN our last we called attention to certain attempts which bad been made to turn aside the force of the facts we have produced, and of the inference which we have…

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Sackville Reach, Hawkesbury River. [From Our Windsor Correspondent.] Laying the Foundation Stone of St. Thomas's Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1870 · page 2

ON Tuesday, the 4th instant, the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new Episcopal Church at this place was performed by the Right Reverend Dr. Barker, Bishop of Sydney. The Bishop was assisted on the occasion by…

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Roman Catholic Archbishops' Oath

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 6

ARE Roman Catholics loyal to our country? Can they serve, two masters --Queen Victoria, and the Pope of Rome ? The following is the oath taken by…

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Protestant and Catholic Representatives. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 6

SIR,--It may be some satisfaction to such Protestant electors as have been charged with setting "sect against sect," but who nevertheless acquitted themselves as…

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Spirit of the Press. the Protestant Church Congress

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 12

The Protestant religion has been sitting for Some days past in congress at Liverpool. Barren und purposeless as we knew any such assembly must be for good, we were not prepared for…

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The Popery of Ritualism; Or, Romanism in the Church of England. No. XVI

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 11

IN our last we gave some illustrations of misquoted, garbled passages found in our friend " S's" attempted reply to our articles on "Romanism in the Church of…

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Sketches of Previous Reformers of the Italian Church. Arnold of Brescia

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 8 January 1870 · page 14

To the teaching of Abeillard, at the opening of the twelfth century, is mainly attributable the intellectual impulse which, once communicated to Western Europe,…

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The Catholic Laity and Univesity Education in Ireland. (To the Editor of the Daily News.)

Empire · Tuesday 11 January 1870 · page 3

Sir,—I should feel obliged if you would publish the subjoined letter, which I have received from two distinguished Catholic graduates of Trinity College, Dublin. One of these gentlemen (Mr. T. Maguire, LL.D.) obtained in many…

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The Catholic Laity and Univ[?]sity Education in Ireland. (To the Editor of the Daily News.)

Evening News · Wednesday 12 January 1870 · page 4

Sir,—I should fee obliged if you would publish the subjoined letter, which I have received from two distinguished Catholic graduates of Trinity College, Dublin. One of these gentleman (Mr. T. Maguire, LL.D.) obtained in many…

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Churchyard Wit. [From the Examiner.]

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 January 1870 · page 3

POST-MORTEM epigrams have ever been a favourite form of rustic wit; while many a poet, city born and bred, has beguiled his leisure by writing humorous or bitter epitaphs on his friends and foes. Singularly…

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Roman Catholic Cardinals' Oath

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 6

Are Roman Catholics loyal to our Constitution, can they serve two masters-- Queen Victoria and the Pope of Rome ? (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)…

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Catholic Education From a Protestant Stand Point

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 8

OF all subjects in the world to interest either the writers in or the readers of one of the most brilliant of English magazines a favourable view of Conventual life is…

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Half-yearly Meeting of the Parent Branch of the Australasian Holy Catholic Guild

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 10

On Sunday, January 2nd, the half-yearly meeting of the Brethren of the Holy Catholic Guild of St. Mary and St. Joseph took place in the hall of St. Mary's Seminary at 4 p.m. There…

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New Church of St. Joseph, Glenealy, County Wicklow

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 6

We abridge from the Dublin "Freeman" the notice of the opening and solemn dedication of the above church in the immediate neighbourhood of that spot, than which…

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To the Bishop of Armidale and Graf Ton, and Members of the Church of England in His Diocese. (By favour of the Sydney Morning Herald.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 7

MY LORD, AND BROTHER CHURCHMEN,—After a serious consideration of the painful position in which I find myself as a member of the Church of England in this colony, I have come to the conviction that it is due to…

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Dr. Newman on the Articles and Homilies of the Church of England

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 7

FOR the information of some of the readers of the Standard we may say, that Dr. Newman was a minister of the Church of England, and that he entered upon the…

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English Church. (To the Editor of the Protestant Standard.)

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 15 January 1870 · page 6

Sir,--Some of the members of the Church of England, to which I belong, and who are subscribers to your valuable paper, do not take the strictures of your able and talented…

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Wesleyan Church, Goulburn

Illustrated Sydney News · Thursday 20 January 1870 · page 3

OUR engraving represents a view of a new Wesleyan Church, intended to be erected on a site situated at the corner of Burke and Goldsmith-streets, in the city of Goulburn. It is designed in the Romanesque style, adapted to colonial requirements, and…

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Anglican Missionaries

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 January 1870 · page 13

Our Anglican cotemporary says :—The "history of our missionary enterprise is one especially humiliating to the English Churchman. The work of our two great Societies is, in some…

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