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Churches, 1870

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Country News. Roman Catholic Soiree

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

One of the most gratifying gatherings that we have ever attended took place on the evening of Wednesday last, in the Roman Catholic Schoolroom. The object was to promote the…

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Religious. Wesleyan Church Extension and Sustentation Society

Sydney Mail · Saturday 7 May 1870 · page 5

THE animal 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 on 4th instant, the York-street church. The…

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Trail of a Roman Catholic Priest for Assault

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 7

AT the Inverness Sheriff Court, December 27th and 29th, a Case which has excited a good deal of interest in various Circles was tried before Sheriff Ivoay and a jury. The Rev. John…

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The Education Question From the Point of View of a Lay Catholic

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 14 May 1870 · page 8

FOR some time past the subject of general education has occupied a great deal of public attention, and if the amount of thinking had borne any fair proportion to…

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Religious Memoranda. Church of England

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1870 · page 10

APRIL 18.—A church was opened at Wilton, East Bargo. This erection stands upon the site of a slab building the use of which, by reason of its ruinous condition, had been given up, and is the work of one man, John…

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The Education Question From the Point of View of a Lay Catholic. No. 2

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 May 1870 · page 8

" Le development intellectuel tout seul separe du developement moral et religieux, devient un principe d'orgueil, d'indsubordination, d'egoisme, et par consequent de…

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The Education Question, From the Point of View of a Lay Catholic. (To the Editor of the Freeman's Journal.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 9

SIR,—In the admirable article of "Delta" in your issue of the 21st, there occurs one or two sentences which seems to imply a contradiction in the tenets of the writer. Although…

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The "Church Times" and Mr. Serjeant Bellasis

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 4

We have been favoured with a copy of a letter that has been forwarded this week to the "Church Times" by Mr. Serjeant Bellasis. With that inaccuracy which seems to…

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Nature of the Church of Rome

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 28 May 1870 · page 4

The real nature of the Church of Rome is not so well-known as it ought' to be. The purpose for which she was instituted and constituted is not generally understood…

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Sermons and Mediæval Church-going

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 May 1870 · page 6

IN a review of Mr. Jeaffreson's work, entitled "A Book about the Clergy," the Spectator says:— Beginning with the written sermons which were so obnoxious to the Puritans, and which were called…

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The Church Mission to the Aborigines, Victoria

Empire · Wednesday 1 June 1870 · page 3

THE sixteenth annual meeting of the Church Mission to the Aborigines was held on the 23rd May, at the Mechanics' Institute, Melbourne. The Very Rev. the Dean of Melbourne occupied the chair, and there…

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The Church Mission to the Aborigines, Victoris

Evening News · Wednesday 1 June 1870 · page 3

THE sixteenth annual meeting of the Church Mission to the Aborigines was held on the 23rd May, at the Mechanics' Institute, Melbourne. The Very Rev. the Dean of Melbourne occupied the chair, and there…

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A New Church Movement

Evening News · Thursday 2 June 1870 · page 3

AT the next meeting of Convocation, both Houses will be invited to consider the questions involved in the following petition, which is receiving a large number of signatures, both of clergy ana laity:—…

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Extraordinary Action at Law. Scene in a Church

Evening News · Friday 3 June 1870 · page 3
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FOR some time past there have been strange statements afloat as to an occurrence in the Kew Independent Church (Rev. Richard Connebee's) in January last; and the affair, as it was described in…

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The Education Question From the Point of View of a Lay Catholic. No. 3

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 9

FROM the form which I have purposely given to these articles it can hardly be necessary to say that no one but the writer is answerable for anything which they may…

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Intercolonial News. Tasmania. Letter From His Holiness Pius Ix., in Answer to the Diocesan Address of the Catholic Clergy and Laity of Tasmania

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 7

TO THE CATHOLIC CLERGY AND LAITY OF THE DIOCESE OF HOBART TOWN. MY DEAR BRETHREN AND FRIENDS,—I have much pleasure in presenting to you for perusal…

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Modern Society and the Church

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 1

There is a sense in which the reconciliation of modern society with the Church is not impossible, not even very difficult. But it is essential to determine in the first…

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Church Synod. Diocese of Newcastle

Sydney Mail · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 3

THE third annual meeting in connection with the Synod of the diocese of Newcastle commenced on Wednesday, at 10 o'clock. After morning service in Christ Church the members…

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Chapter Xliv.—applebury Church

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 June 1870 · page 19

At the pleasant old town of Applebury there was a cattle-fair next morning, By daybreak the whole town was in a bustle: and the High-street, which expands near the old Town-hall into a great, irregular,…

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