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Churches, 1870

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Transubstantiation Advocated by a Church of England Clergyman

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 10

THE following is an extract from a sermon preached by the Rev. Lord Godolphin Osborne, at All Saints' Church, York, on the occasion of the…

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Sales of Leases of Church and School Lands

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 April 1870 · page 29

THE leases of the portions of land in the annexed schedule, forming part of the Church and School Estate, will be put up to auction at eleven o'clock on Friday, the 6th May next, at the places respectively mentioned. The upset price of each…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. (Before Messrs. Crane and Church.)

Evening News · Monday 18 April 1870 · page 2

Seven inebriates were mulcted in different penalties. John Williams, for furiously riding a horse on a public road in the Domain, was fined 40s, in default to go to gaol for a week…

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Water Police Court.—saturday. (Before Messrs[?] Crane and Church.)

Empire · Monday 18 April 1870 · page 2

Seven in[?]riates were mul[?]ted in different penalties. John Williams, for furiously riding a horse on a public road in the Domain, was fined 10s, in default to go to gaol for a week…

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Interesting Letter From Elihu Burritt. an Underground Church in the Black Country—noonday Night Service in the Cathedral of St. Jonas

Evening News · Wednesday 20 April 1870 · page 3

BIRMINGHAM, December 11.—For nearly twentyfive years I had been journeying and sojourning in England, and had visited all its cathedrals, and most of its abbeys and castles, and other historical…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 20 April 1870 · page 7

April 1.—The Bishop of Sydney returned from a visit to Victoria and Tasmania. 16.—Dr. Marsden, the Bishop of Bathurst, arrived per the mail steamer Avoca. He preached to a large…

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Interesting Letter From Elihu Burritt. an Underground Church in the Black Country — Noonday Night Service in the Cathedral of St. Jonas

Empire · Thursday 21 April 1870 · page 4

BIRMINGHAM, December 11.—For nearly twenty-five years I had been journeying and sojourning in England, and had visited all its cathedrals, and most of its abbeys and castles, and other historical…

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The Anathemas of the Roman Catholic Church

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 7

THE Augsburg Gazette publishes that portion of the Syllabus known as Canones de Ecelesia, proposed to the Council at Rome as the new dogmatic scheme. The following is a translation:—…

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Election of Churchwardens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1870 · page 5

AT the annual meetings held on Tuesday, the following were the wardens elected for the ensuing year for the churches mentioned. ST. JAMES'S.—Messrs. Charles Nathan, J. P. Mackenzie,…

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Catholic Unity

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 12

"With all our untempered zeal, all our mistake of favourite opinons for Divine Truth, all our indiscretion and failure in charity, we still believe in and bear witness to a Power above us…

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Spirit of the Press. Catholic Unity and the Protestant Press

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 12

That Protestantism in England, if in lack of an apter generic name we may so describe the public opinion of the country on religions subjects, is deeply interested in the Council of the…

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Election of Churchwardens

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 8

IN our yesterday's issue we gave the names of the churchwardens elected on Easter Tuesday for the various churches in the city, as well as for some of the churches in the suburbs. The following is an additional list of the…

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Metropolitan Churchwardens

Sydney Mail · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 4

AT the annual meetings held on Tuesday, the following wardens were were elected for the ensuing year for the churches mentioned. ST. JAMES'S.—Messrs. Charles Nathan, J.P. Mackenzie,…

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Temperance and the Churches

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 9

WHATEVER may become, of Mr. "WILSON'S Bill for the regulation of the liquor traffic, we have not the smallest expectation of good from that or any…

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"Hear the Church"--holy Gambling

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 23 April 1870 · page 14

THE REV. Mr. R--,Roman Catholic priest of a parish in the county of Galway,was possessed of a horse, which he desired to sell;but for which he was…

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Church and State in Spain. (From the Pall Mall Gazette.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 29 April 1870 · page 3

Last year the Republicans endeavoured to obtain the exclusion from the Constitution of the paragraph which declared that there should be a State Church in Spain, and that that…

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Roman Catholic Orphan School. Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 30 April 1870 · page 7

The Most Rev. J. B. Polding, D.D., to the Colonial Secretary. My Dear Mr. Cowper,—When I had the pleasure of an imervew with you some few days ago, I said that I would…

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Wesleyan Church Extension and Sustentation Society

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 May 1870 · page 6

THE annual meeting of the Wesleyan Church Extension and Sustentation Society, which on Wednesday last week was postponed on account of the inclemency of the weather, was held last night, in the York-street church. The…

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The Anathemas of the Roman Catholic Church

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 2

THE Augsburg; Gazette publishes that portion of the Syllabus known as Canones de Ecclesia, proposed to the Council at Rome as the new dogmatic scheme. The following is a…

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Roman Catholic Orphan School Parramatta

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 11

His Grace Archbishop Folding has sent the following letter to Mr. Cowper, in reference to the condition of the above School:— Sydney, April 8, 1870…

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